Marsden Haddock and the Androides

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

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In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. This...
Author/Editor: Samuel Gary Beckton

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

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The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years,...
Author/Editor: Seán Byrne

Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

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This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey

Newspapers and Journalism in Cork City and County, 1910-1923

Press, Politics and Revolution

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Newspapers played a key role in shaping and reflecting public opinion during the Irish Revolution, 1910–23. County Cork was home to Skibbereen’s Southern Star and Skibbereen Eagle, and...
Author/Editor: Alan McCarthy

The daughters of the first earl of Cork

Writing family, faith, politics and place

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Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Boyle (1566–1643), first earl of Cork, this...
Author/Editor: Ann-Maria Walsh

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork

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Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566–1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atlantic...
Author/Editor: David Edwards & Colin Rynne, editors

Day Place, Co. Kerry

“The most respectable locality in Tralee”

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This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most...
Author/Editor: Laurence Jones

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

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While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latter group have received little scholarly...
Author/Editor: Fergus Murphy