Grattan: A LifeGrattans Parliament has a permanent place in Irish historical lore, but who was Henry Grattan? R. B. McDowells biography traces the varied career of this elusive figure whose political fortunes were as tempestuous as his own character. McDowell begins with Grattans family background and his brilliant early years in the Irish House of Commons, during which, at the age of thirty six, he achieved his greatest triumph: the granting of legislative

Lively memoirs and reminiscences of women graduates

with map and gazetteer

bad language

and undergraduates associated with Trinity College

enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early mediaeval period

and showed how these stories and names – ancestors of half-forgotten tribes – became absorbed by Christian mythology

sex and family and betrayal

demonstrates ingeniously coded histories – via place names

the British Museum

This is a revised

In McDowell on McDowell

and land purchase