Item category 1: Research Lending

In 'The Gaeilge Guide', Mollie Guidera - Ireland's leading online Irish teacher and creator of the hit platform 'Irish with Mollie' - brings her joyful, down-to-earth approach to the page in a book guaranteed to spark your connection to the Irish language and legacy. This fresh and empowering jou...

Medieval Ireland offers an unusually rich and varied corpus of literature, including saga, law, religion, pseudo-history and poetry. It was one of the earliest cultures in medieval Europe to produce extensive literature in its own vernacular, and yet this material is little known or studied. Old ...

Listing almost a thousand names selected from the enormous wealth of historical sources - annals, genealogies, myth, legend and epic poetry - that make up the literature of early medieval Ireland, this is not only a book for parents-to-be, but also an important record of Irish history and culture.

Acclaimed wildlife author Conor W. O'Brien travels the country in search of Ireland's extinct wildlife and the country's greatest conservation success stories.

This text offers an in-depth history of the state body that transformed nursing in Ireland. Established in the midst of political upheaval, the Council set the standards for nursing education, practice, and regulation, ensuring that only fully trained professionals could claim the title of 'nurse...

Tracing the evolution of national hunt and point-to-point racing in Ireland from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book is the story of a people, a place, and their horses.

In the early hours of 4th March 1939, Thomas Pakenham, a Protestant widower from Dublin, bundles his four young Catholic children into a waiting car, and smuggles them across the border into the North of Ireland. Wracked with grief at the loss of his wife, Ciss, and driven by paranoia and suspici...

In this richly illustrated journey, Manchán Magan traces the forgotten presence of the Irish in Iceland; monks and migrants, storytellers and shapeshifters who helped shape a land we’ve long imagined as purely Norse. Through language, lore, place names, DNA, and landscape, Magan uncovers the trac...

St. Brigid is Ireland’s most famous female patron saint, yet she is not Ireland’s only female saint. Readers are introduced to twenty-three female saints in the main chapters. These include Attracta, who defeated a deadly serpent, Dympna who helped people with anxiety and Lupait, St. Patrick’s si...

When recently widowed Jason Corbett hired a wholesome young American, Molly Martens, to care for his two young children, there was nothing to suggest she was a fantasist - and that her obsession with his children would end in his death. In 2011, Jason and Molly married and settled in her native N...