Brought to book

A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

Toby Barnard

In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being expl…

Improving Ireland?

Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786

Toby Barnard

The idea of improvement featured consistently in schemes to transform Ireland into a prosperous, peaceful and English place. Two strands were especially strong:…

Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century

Essays for Toby Barnard

Raymond Gillespie & R.F. Foster, editors

In this book, thirteen distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocrac…

The Irish Hedge School and its books, 1695–1831

Antonia McManus

[Now in its 4th printing.]

This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. …