Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

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This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the approaches of...
Author/Editor: Jim Mac Laughlin

The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings AD 800-1060

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The kings of Aileach came to prominence in the north of Ireland c.AD 800, just as the first Viking fleets began to raid the coasts of Ulster....
Author/Editor: Darren McGettigan

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

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This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school...
Author/Editor: Peter A. Daly

From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

The St George estate, 1613-1864

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Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and...
Author/Editor: Mairead Lynch

The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

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On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect...
Author/Editor: Brendan Twomey

Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare

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This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine and the transition...
Author/Editor: Lesley Whiteside

Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages

History, culture and society

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Nowadays, medieval Gaelic Ulster is virtually invisible. Physical evidence from the four centuries stretching between the invasion of the Anglo-Norman baron John de Courcy and the Plantation is...
Author/Editor: Katharine Simms

The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848

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This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, and the challenges they...
Author/Editor: Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey