Historical Dictionary of Ireland

The authors of Volume 20 in the European Historical Dictionaries series have published widely in the fields of geography, anthropology, population studies and Irish history and archaeology, and this background is very evident in the approach of the work: it is strong on prehistory, politics, demography, administration and statistics, not so strong, on cultural history.

The main body of the work, like others in the series, is placed between a chronology and introduction (geographical details and a potted history) and appendices and bibliography. The appendices give lists of presidents, prime ministers, ministers of state and primates. It deals with the...