We present an extract from Ireland: Mapping the Island, the new book by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson. Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot ...

The coastline around Ireland is scattered with hundreds of islands, from tiny, unpopulated mounds to grand, mountainous isles. While plenty of them are home to dazzling white sand beaches (which could ...

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century. The map, drawn by Dutch ...