Nathaniel Colgan, 1851–1919

'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

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660–1740

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This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand geometric style that...
Author/Editor: Vandra Costello

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

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Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’ as Séamus Ennis called her, was probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of her time. Collectors came from far...
Author/Editor: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Early modern Duhallow, c.1534-1641

The crisis, decline and fall of Irish lordship

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In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the mountainous boggy lands...
Author/Editor: David Heffernan

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