In this text Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries and invaders which have come to Ireland since pre-history and offers a long perspective on Irish history covering right up to the present time.

This book shows how that lordship developed and the heritage it passed on to later generations.

These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society.

This volume brings together twenty classic essays by three of the greatest historians of later medieval Ireland: Edmund Curtis (d. 1943), Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven (d. 1989) and James Lydon.

With the rule of law breaking down in Ireland rapid legislation to deal with the problem was necessary.

This is the sixth volume in the comprehensive 11 volume "Gill History of Ireland," which covers Irish history from the fifth century to the 1960s.