In this first volume of the Royal Irish Academy's multi-volume A New History of Ireland a wide range of national and international scholars, in every field of study, have produced studies of the archaeology, art, culture, geography, geology, history, language, law, literature, music, and related topics that include surveys of all previous scholarship combined with the latest research findings, to offer readers the first truly comprehensive and authoritative account of Irish history from the dawn of time down to the coming of the Normans in 1169. Included in the volume is a comprehensive...

A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day.
Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and...

This book provides statistics from the first Irish census of 1821-1971, with the overall totals broken down under counties, provinces and towns. The subjects covered include ages, births, marriages, deaths and emigration. It is the second in a series of ancillary publications supplementing 'A New History of Ireland', the first of which was a bibliography of medieval Ireland, c. 1170-1495.

Reissued with a comprehensive and updated bibliographical supplement, this history of Ireland brings together essays by scholars on Irish history from the earliest times to the present. This is the third of a ten-volume series.