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

Roscommon

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel...
Author/Editor: John Burke

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

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

The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

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The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This book identifies and...
Author/Editor: Daniel Patrick Curley

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

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On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small village of Knockcroghery in...
Author/Editor: Regina Donlon