The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

'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

Roscommon

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel...
Author/Editor: John Burke

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

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