Four Courts Press

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House...

Donal Corcoran - The Irish Brigade in the Pope's Army 1860 : Faith Fatherland & Fighting - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1860, some 1,300 young men from Ireland answered the call to cross Europe and defend Pope Pius IX’s Papal States, the territory he ruled on the Italian Peninsula, from advancing armies. Even...

Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Ireland and the Jacobite Cause 1685-1766 : A Fatal Attachment - PB 2004 ( Originally 2001)

This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in...

Eoin Kinsella - The Irish Defence Forces 1922-2022 - HB - BRAND NEW 2023

Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with the new state in 1922...

Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018

In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an...

Joanna MacGugan - Social Memory, Reputation and the Politics of Death in the Medieval Irish Lordship - HB - BRAND NEW

Stories of murderous monks, tavern brawls, robberies gone wrong, tragic accidents and criminal gangs from court records reveal how the English of medieval Ireland governed and politicized death and...

John Horgan & Roddy Flynn - Irish Media : A Critical History - PB ( Revised Edition 2017) - BRAND NEW

Revised and Expanded New EditionAs Irish media and society move from an insular, domestic focus in the mid-twentieth century to the global outlook of the twenty-first, this book traces how indigenous...

John O'Callaghan - Limerick : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 - PB - BRAND NEW

Limerick was a key social, political and military battleground during the Irish revolution of 1912-23. By examining a wide range of contemporary sources, O'Callaghan reveals what life was like for...

Kieran Hickey - Wolves in Ireland : A Natural and Cultural history - PB - BRAND NEW

From prehistory to the present day, the wolf has always loomed large in the human imagination. An iconic symbol of the untamed and the wild, the wolf, as Ireland's last great predator, has always...

Margaret Kelleher & Michael Kenneally ( Editors) - Ireland and Quebec : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History Culture and Society - HB -2016

The essays in this volume bring together leading Irish and Quebecois scholars from eight different disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, design and material culture, ethnomusicology,...

Pádraig Ó Riain - Four Tipperary Saints : The Lives of Colum of Terryglass, Crónán of Roscrea, Mochaomhóg of Leigh and Ruadhán of Lorrha - PB

When St Patrick was leaving Munster via the Little Brosna river, close to Tipperary’s northern boundary, he is said to have given a blessing to the province’s people, its men, women and...

Piers Wauchope - The Siege of Londonderry 1689 - HB - BRAND NEW

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the city, the...