The Wordwell Group, established in 1986, is the publisher of History Ireland, Archaeology Ireland and Books Ireland magazines, alongside Wordwell Books and, as of 2019, Eastwood Books. The group has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for more than three decades, publishing in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, the OPW, the Department of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, TII, the Decade of Centenaries and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, together with many of Ireland’s finest authors in the fields of history, heritage and archaeology. Recent awards include winning the 2019 Nilsson Heritage Prize at the Listowel International Festival and being shortlisted for Irish Small Press of the Year at the Bookseller Awards 2019.
Shifting Sentiment is a study of the evolving editorial commentary of Ireland’s nationalist provincial newspapers on the important political events in Ireland between the Home Rule crisis of 1914 and the Civil War of 1922-23
Using some 400 illustrations, this book explores how maps have recorded more than 450 years of far-reaching changes to the landscape, society, and economy of south Kerry.
Ireland has the most cyclical construction sector in Europe, equaled only by Spain. Except for an interlude of normality in the early 1990s, it has been dominated for half a century by booms, busts, slow and painful recoveries, housing shortages and surpluses, and soaring and crashing prices.
Rathgall Hillfort is a site of exceptional importance for Irish archaeology, with its concentration of artifactual evidence unmatched by anywhere else in the country.
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The Wordwell Group, established in 1986, is the publisher of History Ireland, Archaeology Ireland and Books Ireland magazines, alongside Wordwell Books and, as of 2019, Eastwood Books. The group has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for more than three decades, publishing in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, the OPW, the Department of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, TII, the Decade of Centenaries and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, together with many of Ireland’s finest authors in the fields of history, heritage and archaeology. Recent awards include winning the 2019 Nilsson Heritage Prize at the Listowel International Festival and being shortlisted for Irish Small Press of the Year at the Bookseller Awards 2019. 
