From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

Leitrim

The Irish revolution, 1912-23

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Using a wide variety of sources in Ireland and Britain, Patrick McGarty has produced an absorbing, comprehensive and insightful exploration of County Leitrim during the Irish Revolution. This...
Author/Editor: Patrick McGarty

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

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal

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Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were...
Author/Editor: Megan McAuley

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

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

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Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies ranging from antiquities,...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

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Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests....
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

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