Collen. 200 Years of Building and Civil Engineering in Ireland. A History of the Collen Family Business.

The family firm, once regarded as a transitory phenomenon on the way to a more sophisticated model of business organization, is now recognized internationally as an enduring element in modern industrial capitalism.

Collen offers an informed and acc...

Generations: Memories of the Lee Hydroelectric Scheme

The ESB's Lee hydroelectric scheme is one of Ireland's great engineering triumphs. Celebrating its fiftieth year in 2008, the Lee scheme has made a lasting impression on the local geography, economy and population of the Cork region and beyond.

Genera...

Irish Flour Milling: A History 600-2000

This book brings together a series of essays which unfold and illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day. Milling was one of Ireland's foremost industries, playing a critically important role in t...

Locke's Distillery: A History HB

Originally published in 1993 Locke's Distillery is being reissued to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the company.

Despite market dominance by Scotch in this century, Irish whiskey remains its peer. Locke's Distillery has been manu...

Locke's Distillery: A History PB

Originally published in 1993 Locke's Distillery is being reissued to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the company.

Despite market dominance by Scotch in this century, Irish whiskey remains its peer. Locke's Distillery has been manu...

Paddy Mo: The Life of Patrick Moriarty, 1926-1997

This biography charts the life of Paddy Moriarty, the Kerryborn Chief Executive of ESB, a man who revolutionized corporate life during his leadership of the largest semi-state company in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s.

Born in Dingle in 1926, he became...

The Candle Factory Five Hundred Years of Rathborne's, Master Chandlers

John G. Rathborne Ltd is one of Europe's oldest firms, and a Dublin institution. Bernard Neary here recounts the firm's history in loving detail, from the origins of the Rathborne family in Chester and the foundation of the company in the Libe...

The Shannon Scheme & the Electrification of the Irish Free State

The Shannon Scheme, a massive hydroelectric project centred at Ardnacrusha in south-east Co. Clare, remains the most ambitious engineering project undertaken in the history of the Irish state. Its scale and importance made it an economic centrepiece of the...

The Shannon Scheme (PB)

The Shannon Scheme, a massive hydroelectric project centred at Ardnacrusha in south-east Co. Clare, remains the most ambitious engineering project undertaken in the history of the Irish state. Its scale and importance made it an economic centrepiece of...