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16th/17th-century studies

Élie Bouhéreau

Élie Bouhéreau

The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee

Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Bouhéreau fled France, and the personal library and...Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La...
Author/Editor: Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors
The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu through...Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory study of the Church of Ireland throughout this turbulent period. This book fills the gap, drawing on...The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory...
Author/Editor: Patrick Little
From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

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

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

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 from tenancy to ownership, succeeding generations of farmers have sustained not...This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of...
Author/Editor: Lesley Whiteside
Confluences of Law and History

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
Reforming Galway

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
The Irish Jacobite army, 1689-91

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
Anglicizing Tudor Connacht

Anglicizing Tudor Connacht

The expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Clanrickard was ruled by the Burke dynasty, descendants of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman conquerors and...At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of...
Author/Editor: Joseph Mannion
Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and a burgeoning economy. During that period the merchant elite of the...In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled...
Author/Editor: Jane Fenlon & Sarah Maguire
Portmagee, Co. Kerry

Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to scrutiny when investigated at local level. Christianization, Norman...This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey
Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties in the domestic sphere and daily life remain hazy. This collection investigates a wide and varied...Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors