The daughters of the first earl of Cork

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork

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Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566–1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atlantic...
Author/Editor: David Edwards & Colin Rynne, editors

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

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The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by...
Author/Editor: James O'Neill

Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, c.1573–6

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Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to...
Author/Editor: David Heffernan

The making of inequality

Women, power and gender ideology in the Irish Free State, 1922–37

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How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916, with its promise of equality and universal citizenship, to the conservative constitution of 1937, which allowed for only...
Author/Editor: Maryann Gialanella Valiulis

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

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The campaign for women’s votes in Ireland coincided with the nationalist movement, the First World War, the rise of the trade union movement, the cultural revival and,...
Author/Editor: Louise Ryan