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

The Glynns of Kilrush, County Clare, 1811–1940

Family, business and politics

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This book examines the fortunes of a provincial entrepreneurial family, the Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, who came to local prominence in the early years of the nineteenth...
Author/Editor: Paul O'Brien

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

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

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

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

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This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

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