John Plunket Joly and the Great Famine in King's County

Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine

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‘The most in-depth study of the effects of the Famine on a landed estate and its community … With the help of this book, we are brought...
Author/Editor: Ciarán Reilly

The Irish land agent, 1830–60

The case of King's County

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Land agents have been stereotypically represented in Irish history as alien, capricious and in general the tormentors of the tenantry. However, to date, no definitive examination exists of...
Author/Editor: Ciarán Reilly

Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

The case of County Roscommon

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The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflict in...
Author/Editor: Michael Huggins

Sending out Ireland's poor

Assisted emigration to North America in the nineteenth-century

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Between 1800 and 1914 over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends...
Author/Editor: Gerard Moran

William Steuart Trench and his management of the Digby Estate, King's County, 1857–71

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This book set out to establish what the true ‘realities’ were on the Digby estate in King’s County from 1857 to 1871, under the management of William...
Author/Editor: Mary Delaney