Recent acquisitions of books in the Royal Irish Academy Library: an alphabetical list

January – March 2018

Lords and towns in Medieval Europe : the European Historic Towns Atlas project / Edited by Anngret Simms and Howard B. Clarke, Ashgate, 2015.

Neoliberal urban policy and the transformation of the city : reshaping / edited by Andrew MacLaran and Sinéad Kelly, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

1641 Depositions. Volume IV. Dublin, TCD, MS 809 & TCD, MS 810, miscellaneous associated papers, TCD, MS 840 / principal editor Aidan Clarke, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2017.

Then there was light : stories powered by the rural electrification scheme in Ireland / P.J. Cunningham, Dr Joe Kearney, editors, Ballpoint Press, 2016.

The Irish sketches of Florence Vere O'Brien / edited by David Rowe; with an introduction by Veronica Rowe, Ballinakella Press, 2017.

Perceptions 2016: the art of citizenship, Crawford Art Gallery, 2016.

Teagasc women in Stem, Th!nk Media, 2017.

Ireland 1916-2016 : the promise and challenge of national sovereignty / Tom Boylan, Nicholas Canny & Mary Harris, editors, Open Air, 2017.

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork / David Edwards and Colin Rynne, editors, Four Courts Press, 2018.

John Hume in his own words / Seán Farren , editor, Four Courts Press, 2018.

Medieval urban culture / edited by Andrew Brown and Jan Dumolyn, Brepols, 2017.

The music of Dublin : 120 years of the Feis Ceoil : an exhibition at the Little Museum of Dublin, The Little Museum of Dublin,

A Catalogue of large scale town plans prepared by the Ordnance Survey and deposited in P.R.O.N.I.: town plans 1828-1966, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, [1975]

Historic towns in Ireland : maximising your tourist potential / Fáilte Ireland, National Tourism Development Authority, Fáilte Ireland, National Tourism Development Authority,

Atlas Historyczny Miast Polskich : Tom II, Kujawy. Zeszyt 2, Koronowo = The Historical Atlas of Polish Towns : Volume II, Kujavia. Book 2, Koronowo, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, 2016.

Deutscher historicher städteatlas: Dortmund, Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, 2017.

Historical map of Oxford from Medieval to Victorian times : showing major medieval and later buildings, and places of historic interest, with an introduction and explanatory gazetteer, Historic Towns Trust, 2016.

Historical map of Winchester from Medieval times to 1800 : showing major medieval and later buildings and places of historic interest with an introduction and explanatory gazetteer, Historic Towns Trust, 2016.

Historical map of Kingston upon Hull from Medieval town to industrial city : showing major medieval and later buildings and places of historic interest with an introduction and explanatory gazetteer, Historic Towns Trust, 2017.

Three centuries of Irish art : Crawford Art Gallery Collection, Gandon Editions, 2014.

Dá dtrian feasa fiafraighidh : essays on the Irish grammatical and metrical tradition / edited by Gordon Ó Riain, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) 2017.

Re-examining Irish nationalism in : conference proceedings, Queen's University , 15 June 2016, Irish Humanities Alliance, 2017.

The sound of Ireland : a celebration of Unesco recognition for uilleann piping. Abbey Theatre, Tuesday January 30th, 7.30 pm, Na Píobairí Uilleann, [2018]

Why forests? Why wood? / Donal Magner, Wood Marketing Federation, 2018.

Centenary reflections on the 1916 rising : Galway County perspectives = Machnamh Céad Bliain ar Éirí Amach 1916 : Léargas Chontae na Gaillimhe, Galway County Council, 2016.

Galway County : 1916 Rising heritage trail = Chontae na Gaillimhe : Conair Oidhreachta 1916, Galway County Council, in partnership with the Department of Heritage and Tourism, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2017.

Ireland 2016 centenary programme in the United States of America, 2016.

An Meon folaithe : Idé-eolaíochtaí agus iompar lucht labhartha na Gaeilge in Éirinn agus in Albain / eagarthóirí Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin agus John Walsh, Cois Life, 2018.

Maps that changed the world / edited by John O.E. Clark; introduction by professor Jeremy Black, Batsford, 2015.

Left lives in twentieth-century Ireland / edited by Francis Devine and Kieran Jack McGinley, Umiskin Press, 2017.

Historical perspectives on parenthood and childhood in Ireland / Mary Hatfield, Jutta Kruse and Ríona Nic Congáil, editors, Arlen House, 2018.

The language of gender, power and agency in Celtic studies / Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, Arlen House, 2014.

Transforming landscapes of belief in the early medieval insular world and beyond / Nancy Edwards, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, and Roy Flechner, Brepols, 2017.

Documents of the first Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland, 1767-1839 / edited by Robert J. Bennett, Oxford UP for the British Academy, 2018.

What do graduates do? The class of 2016: an analysis of the first desitnation of University Graduates / a report by the Higher Education Authority, Higher Education Authority, 2018.

Key facts and figures: Higher Education 2016/17, Higher Education Authority, 2018.

The matter of Britain in medieval Ireland: reassessments/ edited by John Carey, Irish Texts Society, 2017.

Manuscripts in the making : art and science, vol. 1 / edited by Stella Panayotova & Paola Ricciardi, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017.

Culture and economy : contemporary perspectives / edited by Ullrich Kockel, Ashgate, 2002.

Negotiating culture : moving, mixing and memory in contemporary Europe / Reginald Byron, Ullrich Kockel (eds.) Lit Verlag, 2006.

Cultural heritages as reflexive traditions / edited by Ullrich Kockel and Máiréad Nic Craith, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

A companion to the anthropology of Europe / edited by Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman, Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

The cradle of European culture - Early medieval Irish book art : summer exhibition, 13 March until 4 November 2018 / edited by Cornel Dora and Franziska Schnoor, Klosterhof, 2018.

An der Wiege Europas - Irische Buchkultur des Frühmittelalters : Sommerausstellung 13. März bis 4. November 2018 / heraugegeben von Cornel Dora und Franziska Schnoor, Klosterhof, 2018.

Acheson, Alan R. The shaping of Northern Ireland : a historical perspective / Alan R. Anderson, Acheson Publications, 2017.

Ahern, Garry: Portmarnock, its people and townlands : a history / Garry Ahern, Fingal County Libraries, 2017.

Bardon, Jonathan: Hallelujah : the story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life / Jonathan Bardon, Gill & Macmillan, 2015.

Begley, Donal: John Archdeacon Begley : a concise biography / Donal Begley, [Donal Begley] 2017.

Bergholm, Alexandra: From shaman to saint : interpretive strategies in the study of Buile Shuibhne / Alexandra Bergholm, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2012.

Bourke, Marie: Frederick William Burton : for the love of art / curated by Marie Bourke, National Gallery of Ireland, 2017.

Bury, Robin: Buried lives : the protestants of southern Ireland / Robin Bury, History Press, 2018.

Busby, George: The spies at Gilnahirk / George Busby, Ballyhay Books (An imprint of Laurel Cottage) 2017.

Busby, Keith: French in Medieval Ireland, Ireland in medieval French : the paradox of two worlds / by Keith Busby, Brepols, 2017.

Butler, Reuben Ní Ghruagáin, Máire: The story of Newmarket-on-Fergus / Reuben Butler and Máire Ní Ghruagáin, Columba Press, 2015.

Byrne, Michael: Local and lending: the story of Tullamore Credit Union 1963-2013 / Michael Byrne; with contributions from Joe Kenny, Dennis Daly, P.J. Egan, Eilish Horan and Brian Gunning, Esker Press, 2015.

Byrne, Michael: Tullamore in 1916 : the making of the Tullamore Incident / Michael Byrne, Esker Press, 2016.

Campbell, Ian W.S. Aristotelian ancient constitution and anti-aristotelian sovereignty in Stuart Ireland / Ian W.S. Campbell, Cambridge UP, 2010.

Campbell, Maureen: Armagh : city of light and learning / paintings by Joe Hynes; text by Maureen Campbell, Cottage Publications, 2008.

Chambers, George: The origins of the dairy industry in Ulster / George Chambers with Ian McDougall, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2017.

Clare, Liam: The story behind the stained glass window panel of the Madonna and child in Foxrock church, created by the Harry Clarke Studios / by Liam Clarke, Foxrock Local History Club, 2018.

Clare, Liam: Foxrock Local History Club - forty years of discovering our hidden heritage and history : a talk by Liam Clare to the Foxrock Local History Club at Foxrock parish Pastoral Centre on 21 November 2017, Foxrock Local History Club, 2018.

Clark, Lauren Rebecca: Consuming Irish children : advertising and the art of independence, 1860-1921 / Lauren Rebecca Clark, Peter Lang, 2017.

Connell, Joseph E.A., Jnr. Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-22 / Joseph E.A. Connell Jnr, Wordwell, 2017.

Corlett, Chris O'Mahony, Flora: Ormond Castle - Ireland's Tudor rose, Archaeology Ireland, 2018.

Corlett, Christiaan: Glendalough / Christiaan Corlett, Coles Lane, 2017.

Cunningham, Bernadette: Gentlemen's daughters in Dublin cloisters : the social world of nuns in early eighteenth-century Dublin / by Bernadette Cunningham, Dublin City Public Libraries, 2018.

Dargan, Vincent: The Falls : the people, the community, the memories / Vincent Dargan, Blackstaff Press, 2013.

Dunbar, Ciarán: Cnuasach focal as an Dún, agus nótaí eile : a collection of words from County Down & additional notes / Ciarán Dunbar, Coiscéim, 2017.

Dungan, Thomas P. An early English perfumer William Dungan of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, c.1600-1636 : his ancestry, life and family / by Thomas P. Dungan, Otter Bay Books, 2017.

Eames, Robin: Unfinished search / Robin Eames, Columba Press, 2017.

Edwards, Aaron: UVF : behind the mask / Aaron Edwards, Merrion Press, 2017.

Egeler, Matthias: Islands in the West : classical myth and the medieval Norse and Irish geographical imagination / by Matthias Egeler, Brepols, 2017.

Ellis, Lucille: Women of Clare / by Lucille Ellis in association with Clare Roots Society, Clare Roots Society, 2017.

Farrell, Gerard: The ‘mere Irish’ and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641 / Gerard Farrell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Foley, Áine: The Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Dublin = Mainistir Thomáis Mairtíreach, Baile Átha Cliath / by Dr Áine Foley, Dublin City Council, 2017.

Gannon, Charles: John S. Beckett : the man and the music / Charles Gannon, Lilliput, 2016.

Grimes, Brendan: Commodius Temples : Roman Catholic church building in nineteenth-century Dublin / by Brendan Grimes, Dublin City Public Libraries, 2010.

Hamill, Jonathan: The Herdman family and Sion Mills : an Irish linen dynasty and its utopian legacy / Jonathan Hamill, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2017.

Hart, Nuala McAllister: Josef Locke : the people’s tenor / Nuala McAllister Hart, Croshan Press, 2017.

Harvey, Dan: Into action : Irish peacekeepers under fire, 1960-2014 / Dan Harvey; foreword by Kevin Myers, Merrion Press, 2017.

Harvey, Ros Beattie, Seán: Donegal's wild Atlantic coast / Ros Harvey, Seán Beattie, Cottage Publications, 2017.

Hayes, Gerald: The Blasket islandman : the life and legacy of Tomás Ó Criomhthain / Gerald Hayes, Collins Press, 2018.

Haywood, Eric: Fabulous Ireland = Ibernia fabulosa : imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy / Eric Haywood, Peter Lang, 2014.

Hussey, John: The Quakers of Baltyboys, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1678 to 1800 / John Hussey, The Historical Committee of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, 2017.

Huxley, G. L. (George Leonard), MRIA, 1932- The shield device of Alcaeus : a suggestion, Macchiaroli, 2018.

Hyde, Douglas, MRIA, 1860-1949: Amhráin agus Dánta Raiftearaí / Dúghlas de Híde / arna gcruinniú agus arna bhfoilsiú den chéad uair le Dúghlas de Híde (An Craoibhín Aoibhinn) arna gcur amach anois arís agus tuilleadh amhrán leo / atheagrán arna chóiriú ag Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Futa Fata, 2018.

Jackson, Alvin, MRIA, 1961- Judging Redmond and Carson : comparative Irish lives / Alvin Jackson, Royal Irish Academy, 2018.

Kearney, Richard Gallagher, Sheila: Twinsome minds: an act of double remembrance / Richard Kearney & Sheila Gallagher, Quinnipiac UP, 2017.

Kenny, Conor: It’s who I am : Conor Kenny in conversation with people who discovered their purpose and passion, Oak Tree Press, 2017.

Kockel, Ullrich, MRIA, 1957- Re-visioning Europe : frontiers, place identities and journeys in debatable lands / Ullrich Kockel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Kockel, Ullrich, MRIA, 1957- Regional culture and economic development : explorations in European ethnology / Ullrich Kockel, Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

Kockel, Ullrich, MRIA, 1957- Borderline classes : the ethnic frontiers of European integration / Ullrich Kockel, Liverpool UP, 1999.

Lee, Michael: Edward Lee : model employer and man of moral courage / by Michael Lee, Du´n Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, 2016.

Longfield, Cynthia: The Dragonflies of the British Isles, Warne, 1937 **1948.

Lucas, W. J. British dragonflies (Odonata) Gill, 1900.

Lucy, Gordon: The Ulster Covenant : an illustrated history of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis / Gordon Lucy, Colourpoint, 2012.

Mac Conmara, Tomás: Days of hunger : the Clare volunteers and the Mountjoy hunger strike of 1917 / Tomás Mac Conmara, Dallán Publishing, 2017.

Mac Peaircín, Liam: Gníomh Dóchais : Irisleabhar Na Gaedhilge (1882-1909) / Liam Mac Peaircín, Coiscéim, 2018.

Mac Síthigh, Domhnall (Sheehy, Danny) In the wake of St Brendan : From Dingle to Iceland, 2011 / translated from the original Irish of Domhnall Mac Síthigh by Camilla Dinkel, An Sagart, 2017.

Mac Suibhne, Breandán: Subjects lacking words? : The gray zone of the Great Famine / Breandán Mac Suibhne, Quinnipiac UP, 2017.

Madden, Gerard Creamer, Shane: Lough Berg and its islands with accompanying maps : a voyage of discovery by road and by river / Gerard Madden & Shane Creamer; cartography and illustrations by Paul Berg, Otherwise Ireland, 2016.

Mag Fhloinn, Bill: Blood rite: the feast of St Martin in Ireland / Billy Mag Fhloinn, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2016.

Marnham, Niamh: An introduction to the architectural heritage of Dublin South City / Niamh Marnham, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, 2017.

McCormack, William J., MRIA, 1947- Enigmas of sacrifice : a critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916 / W.J. McCormack, Michigan State UP, 2016.

Meouak, Mohamed: Les Ziban entre Aurès et Sahara : une géographie historique de Biskra et de ses oasis du Moyen Âge à la fin de l'époque moderne / Mohamed Meouak, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2017.

Mooney, Jennifer: Irish stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 / Jennifer Mooney, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Morrissey, Thomas J. The life and times of Daniel Murray : Archbishop of Dublin, 1823-1852 / Thomas J. Morrissey, Messenger Publications, 2018.

Murphy, Andrew: Ireland, reading and cultural nationalism, 1790-1930 : bringing the nation to book / Andrew Murphy, Cambridge UP, 2018.

Newsinger, John: Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913 / John Newsinger, Bookmarks Publications, 2013.

Ní Mhaoláin, Aoife: Trinity and the Rising = Coláiste na Tríonóide agus an Éirí Amach / produced by Aoife Ní Mhaoláin. , [2016]

Ní Riain, Isobel: Cnuasach aistí / Isobel Ní Riain, Coiscéim, 2018.

Nic Fhinn, Máire: Riobard Mac Góráin : ceannródaí ildánach / Máire Nic Fhinn, Coiscéim, 2018.

Ó Buachalla, Breandán: Cnuasach Chléire / Breandán Ó Buachalla, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath, 2017.

O’Byrne, Robert: Tyrone House and the St George family : the story of an Anglo-Irish family / Robert O'Byrne, Xlibris, 2017.

Ó Cíobháin, Pádraig: An Gealas i Lár na Léithe / Pádraig Ó Cíobháin; arna chur i láthair ag Breandán Ó Cróinín, Coiscéim, 2018.

O'Connor, Éimear: Conflicting visions in a turbulent age, 1900-1916, Crawford Art Gallery, 2016.

O’Connor, Siobhán: Irish government policy and public opinion towards German-speaking refugees, 1933-1943 / by Siobhán O'Connor, Cambridge Scholars, 2017.

O’Keeffe, Peter Simington, Tom: Irish stone bridges : history and heritage / Peter O'Keeffe & Tom Simington; revised by Rob Goodbody, Irish Academic Press, 2016.

O’Leary, John: On the doorsteps : memoirs of a long-serving TD / John O'Leary, Irish Political Memoirs, 2015.

O’Malley, Cormac K.H. Barron, Juliet Christy: Western ways : remembering Mayo through the eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O’Malley / Cormac K.H. O'Malley and Juliet Christy Barron, Mercier Press, 2015.

O’Regan, Susan: Music and society in Cork, 1700-1900 / Susan O'Regan, Cork UP, 2018.

Ó Scolaí, Darach: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Leabhar Breac, 2017.

O'Toole, Joe Laffey, James: From the travelling shop to the online supermarket / Joe O'Toole with James Laffey, [Author] 2017.

Ommundsen, Aslaug Osttveit, Halvor: Psallat ecclesia : Medieval Norwegian sequences, 2L, 2011.

Parkinson, Alan F. Election fever : groundbreaking electoral contests in Northern Ireland / Alan F. Parkinson, Blackstaff Press, 2017.

Patterson, Henry: Ireland’s violent frontier : the border and Anglo-Irish relations during / Henry Patterson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Puirséil, Niamh: Kindling the flame : 150 years of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation / Niamh Puirséil, Gill Books, 2017.

Redmond, John Edward 1856-1918: : selected letters and memoranda, 1880-1918 / edited and with an introduction by Dermot Meleady, Merrion Press, 2018.

Rowan, Brian: Unfinished peace : thoughts on Northern Ireland’s unanswered past / Brian Rowan, Colourpoint, 2015.

Royle, Stephen A., MRIA, 1950- Portrait of an industrial city : 'Clanging Belfast', 1750-1914 / Stephen A. Royle, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society in association with Ulster Historical Foundation, 2011.

Ryan, Vera: Made in Cork : the Arts and Crafts movement 1880s to 1920s / Vera Ryan, Crawford Art Gallery, 2017.

Stevens, Julie Anne: Two Irish girls in Bohemia : the drawings and writings of E. OE Somerville and Martin Ross / Julie Anne Stevens, Somerville Press, 2017.

Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1943- Globalization and its discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz, Penguin Books, 2002.

Stout, Matthew: Early medieval Ireland, 431-1169 / Matthew Stout, Wordwell, 2017.

Sweeney, Clair L. The rivers of Dublin : new revised edition / Clair L. Sweeney, Irish Academic Press, 2017.

Turner, Michael J. Radicalism and reputation : the career of Bronterre O’Brien / Michael J. Turner, Michigan State University Press, 2017.

Vincent, Nicholas: Magna Carta : origins and legacy / Nicholas Vincent, Bodleian Library, 2015.

Waldron, Michael Lordan, Shane: Samuel Forde : visions of tragedy / Michael Waldron and Dr Shane Lordan, Crawford Art Gallery, 2014.

Whelan, Kevin: Dublin in its global setting: from Wood Quay to Silicon City / Kevin Whelan, Dublin City Public Libraries, 2016.

White, Dan: A history of Musgrave : the first 125 years / Dan White, Musgrave Group, 2001.

White, Trevor: Alfie : the life and times of Alfie Byrne / Trevor White, Penguin, 2017.

Withers, Charles W.J. Geography and science in Britain, 1831-1939 : a study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / Charles W.J. Withers, Manchester UP, 2010.

Yeates, Pádraig: Rioters, looters, lady patrols & mutineers : some reflections on lesser visited aspects of the Irish revolution in Dublin / by Pádraig Yeates, Dublin City Public Libraries, 2017.