The Scotch-Irish in history as master builders of empires, states, churches, schools and civilization

This open-access volume explores the reception of Graeco-Romano culture from Ireland’s earliest medieval scholars such as Columbanus and John Scottus Eriugena to later writers incl...

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by compet...

Focusing on previously unexplored theoretical gaps, limitations, and fresh avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism, this book interrogates marginalis...

This chapter examines the storefront churches and “cults” of Illinois in the early decades of the twentieth century. Before the Negroes' mass exodus to Illinois and Chicago, migran...

This work is a distinctive, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the cultural, political, economic, musical, and literary impact that Ireland and the nations of the Americas hav...

Ireland and the Irish are beloved today in the United States, not the least because of the large Irish-American population. The Irish have contributed a great deal to the Western l...

Abstract The grand theme of modern Irish history is the political outworking—in a liberal democratic era—of the Catholic majority resentment of historic forcible dis...

From capsule descriptions/assessments of individual feature films to extended essays on areas such as Irish animation, short film, experimental film and documentary production alon...