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June 2024
Meath
The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the chance for change, risking life and livelihood for their chosen cause;...
This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on...
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June 2024
The Irish Jacobite army, 1689-91
Anatomy of the force
The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although largely a new force, for three years, in alliance with France, it sustained a major war...
The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although...
Author/Editor:
Harman Murtagh & Diarmuid Murtagh
May 2024
The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
Taxation, townlands and topography
Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relationship between people and the environment. Though it has left a detailed and invaluable historical record in...
Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing...
Author/Editor:
Finnian O'Cionnaith
June 2024
Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin
Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, the surviving archives give an insight into the lives of middle-class Dubliners, who followed...
Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although...
Author/Editor:
Toby Barnard and Bridget McCormack, editors
July 2024
Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2024)
Éigse Volume 42 includes contributions on medieval texts and manuscripts, an edition of an aisling poem by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin and articles on Manx, the modern dialects and lexicographical matters. Contributions in both Irish and English are from established...
Éigse Volume 42 includes contributions on medieval texts and manuscripts, an edition of an aisling poem by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin and articles...
Author/Editor:
Liam Mac Mathúna
2024
Reforming Galway
Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas's collegiate church, 1550-1750
This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change on a national basis, from a confessional perspective and have been concerned with short term ‘success’ or...
This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change...
Author/Editor:
Raymond Gillespie
August 2024
Confluences of Law and History
Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021
This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Contributors to the volume include leading historians, legal historians and legal practitioners. They make use of...
This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth...
Author/Editor:
Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin
August 2024
The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine
An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship
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 reconstructs the physical appearance of the major Ó Cellaig lordly centres...
The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later...
Author/Editor:
Daniel Patrick Curley
August 2024
The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848
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 encountered until the final discontinuance of Ballymurray Quaker meeting in 1848....
This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of...
Author/Editor:
Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey
Coming 2024
Ulster-Scots and America
Diaspora literature, history and migration, 1750–2000
This collection of essays examines the contribution made by the Ulster-Scots diaspora upon the writing of North America. Themes covered by this collection include: literary constructions of colonial and post-colonial American identity; the linguistic and literary impact of Scots vernacular...
This collection of essays examines the contribution made by the Ulster-Scots diaspora upon the writing of North America. Themes covered by this...
Author/Editor:
Frank Ferguson & Richard MacMaster, edtiors
August 2024
Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024
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 in Rathcoole, which subsequently merged with the King’s Hospital School. Such charitable...
This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later...
Author/Editor:
Peter A. Daly
August 2024
From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon
The St George estate, 1613-1864
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 their Carrick-on-Shannon estate. It explores how military prowess and political acuity helped...
Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of...
Author/Editor:
Mairead Lynch
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