Crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Belfast

Morristown Lattin, County Kildare, 1630–1800

The estate and its tenants

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Through an examination of the estate records, this case study provides an insight into the adaption and survival of a Catholic-owned estate during two tumultuous periods in Irish...
Author/Editor: Emma Lyons

Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

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King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of Bréifne...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey

Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610–1714

The origins of an Ulster Plantation town

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This book charts the plantation town of Belturbet from its inception in the early seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century. It was a period of...
Author/Editor: Brendan Scott

Preaching in Belfast, 1747–72

A selection of the sermons of James Saurin

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In 1747 James Saurin, a descendant of a prominent Huguenot family, was appointed as vicar of Belfast. One of his first acts was to write a series...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie & Roibeard Ó Gallachóir, editors

Belfast and the Irish language

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This collection of essays explores Belfast's relationship with the Irish language from its earliest roots through to the cultural pioneers of the 19th-century revival, the urban Gaeltacht of...
Author/Editor: Fionntan de Brun