Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

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Shortlisted for *The Apollo Awards 2016 **Book of the Year* and *The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016*. Also, *Times Literary Supplement* choice for...
Author/Editor: Nicola Gordon Bowe

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne

Vindicating Dublin

The story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924

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The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation (the city's municipal government) is brought to light in this absorbing study which captures the mood in...
Author/Editor: Aodh Quinlivan

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

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Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and property...
Author/Editor: Mary Clark, editor

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

Dublin, 1910–1940

Shaping the city and suburbs

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Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such...
Author/Editor: Ruth McManus