Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

This study focuses on the ambush and counter-ambush doctrine developed during the Irish Rebellion. By disregarding the politics and social issues, as much as possible without losing context and perspective, the focus is on the military aspects of these operations.

The subject is towns and town plans in Ireland - from earliest times to the Famine - their origin, originality and potential - bringing their rigorous and axial layouts to an audience for the first time where they can be understood as a part of world culture. The book is illustrated with new plan...

Richard Crosbie (1756-1824) is rightly celebrated as Ireland's first aeronaut. This book tells the story of this intrepid scientist and showman, and places his extraordinary achievements in the context of European ballooning.