Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

As well as the comprehensive and detailed guides to each course, this contains historical overviews, portraits of Ireland's key golf figures, as well as suggested itineraries and maps.

This is the seventh volume in the series of local history essays written by Dublin City Council's historians in residence, including of a chapter by the Children's historian in Residence. The publication is distributed free-of-charge through Dublin City libraries.

Life was simpler then. Your passport to an Irish boyhood in a less frantic, more adventurous age, reliving a time of skinned knees and home-made go-karts, clean dirt, Saturday night baths, and the kind of sweets that'd nearly cost you your teeth. Back when it always seemed to snow at Christmas, ...

This landmark publication has been designed to empower researchers, school, community and heritage groups, and indeed, anyone with an interest in Galway history and the independence struggle in Ireland. Comprising a detailed guide to beginning the research journey and navigating a complex array o...

Discover Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney who was active in five different resistance networks in Paris helping allied soldiers to get to safety; Captain John Keany from Cork, who parachuted behind enemy lines to help the Resistance in Italy; and Catherine Crean, the Irish governess born ...

A myriad of descriptive names and abbreviations have appeared on Irish Ordnance Survey maps since the 1830’s when the first six-inch maps were published. OS mapping may also have geological, topographical, archaeological, botanical and cartographic terms, administrative divisions and Irish lang...