Annotation. An intriguing analysis of Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture.

Founded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects.Its aim is to present the research of scholars in these fields of Irish studies and so to bring them within easy reach of each other and the wider public. It endeavours to provide in each issue a proportion of articles, such as surveys of periods or theme in history or literature, which will be of general interest.A long review section is a special feature of the journal and all new publications within its scope are there reviewed by competent authorities.

These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society. They deal both with the foundation and expansion of the English lordship in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and with the problems sand adjustments that accompaneid its contraction in the later middle ages. Attention is paid both to the government and society of the colony itself, and to the interactions between settler and native.

A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the tumultuous events in Ireland in the 1640s and 1650s.