Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009,
its early publications were primarily theological, notably the English translation of the
Navarre Bible
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spai ...
.
From 1992 it expanded into publishing
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...
works in
Celtic Studies
Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art histor ...
, Medieval Studies and
Ecclesiastical History, and then into Modern History, Art, Literature and Law. As of late 2020, Four Courts Press had around 500 titles in print and publishing around 50 new works each year.
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Companies based in Dublin (city)
Publishing companies established in 1970
Publishing companies of Ireland