Four Courts Press

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Four Courts Press
Founded1970
Headquarters locationDublin, Ireland
Distribution Gill (Ireland) [1]
IPG (USA) [2]
Key peopleMartin Healy, managing director; Martin Fanning, publisher
Publication typesBooks
Official website www.fourcourtspress.ie

Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. [3]

Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009, [4] its early publications were primarily theological, notably the English translation of the Navarre Bible. [4] From 1992 it expanded into publishing peer-reviewed works in Celtic Studies, Medieval Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and then into Modern History, Art, Literature and Law. [5] As of late 2024, Four Courts Press had around 800 titles in print and publishing around 35 new works each year. [6]

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  2. "IPG Four Courts Press". IPG. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. "Four Courts Press Catalogue 2019". Four Courts Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
  4. 1 2 Bernard, Toby (19 March 2009). "Michael Adams: Academic publisher whose Four Courts Press led the market in Ireland". The Independent. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
  5. "Four Courts Press | About Us". www.fourcourtspress.ie. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  6. "Four Courts Press | Books". www.fourcourtspress.ie. Retrieved 15 November 2024.