Item category 1: Donegal Studies

Discover the history of Ireland through maps. From early maps of the Emerald Isle to modern day, Ireland has evolved rapidly - along with the ways in which it has been mapped. Cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. Combining the artistic world of early ...

'Grace in Penal Times' is an historical novel about the persecution of Irish Catholics and clergy as a result of the Penal Laws enacted by the English-controlled Irish Parliament in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Catholic worship was forbidden, the priests were either deported or killed ...

The Electrician’s Children, is a memoir of three generations of an Irish family’s missionary life on five continents. It starts in remote rural Donegal in the 1920s and proceeds all over the world to the present day. It includes unique first-hand material from all these eras. This includes an ins...

Paul Charles has lived the life, loved the music, dreamt the dreams, and been manager and confidante to some of the world’s biggest – and most artistically credible – artists and songwriters. In Adventures in Wonderland, he writes about his encounters with The Beatles, The Kinks, Robert Plant, Va...

This is the first operational account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the parliament's structures and operations were established in a manner that would endure until the Act of Union. This book describes the structur...

Utilising a significant trove of new and previously unexplored archival material from the RCB Library, this beautifully illustrated book provides the most definitive account yet of the architectural history of the Church of Ireland. The text adopts a thematic and historical approach that will ass...