Early modern Duhallow, c.1534-1641

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

'Modest and civil people'

Religion and society in medieval Galway

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The town of Galway occupied a unique situation in medieval Ireland. Conspicuously English in its religious and political allegiances, it existed in an overwhelmingly Gaelic hinterland, far from...
Author/Editor: Rachel Moss and Cólman Ó Clabaigh OSB

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

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This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it...
Author/Editor: Suzanne M. Pegley

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

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On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small village of Knockcroghery in...
Author/Editor: Regina Donlon

Nathaniel Colgan, 1851–1919

The life, times and genealogy of an enigmatic Dubliner

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Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was...
Author/Editor: John Colgan

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

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Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo-Norman...
Author/Editor: Paul MacCotter

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

Nursing and midwifery in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882–1922

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This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh in Co....
Author/Editor: Lisa McGeeney