The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order during the Famine Years

The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45

A society in transition

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In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the collapse of the linen...
Author/Editor: Daragh Curran

Ulster-Scots Writing

An anthology

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This anthology of Ulster-Scots writing charts the breadth and diversity of Scottish influences upon Ulster writing from the 17th century to the present day. For the first time,...
Author/Editor: Frank Ferguson, editor

Revising Robert Burns and Ulster

Literature, religion and politics, c.1770–1920

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In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of the birth of Robert Burns, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine the...
Author/Editor: Frank Ferguson & Andrew R. Holmes, editors

The correspondence of Samuel Thomson (1766–1816)

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During the Romantic period in the north of Ireland, a circle of bards were corresponding with one another, encouraging each other to pen verse, often united by...
Author/Editor: Jennifer Orr, editor

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

Fleeing from famine in Connemara

James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880s

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Between 1882 and 1884, the English Quaker and philanthropist James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 people, mainly families, to emigrate from Connemara – paying for their passage and...
Author/Editor: Gerard Moran

Handloom weavers in Ulster's linen industry, 1815–1914

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Kevin J. James examines linen handloom weavers as they encountered changes in the industry, and explores fluctuating definitions of men's and women's work in the trade. Using a...
Author/Editor: Kevin J. James