Edmund Sexten Pery

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

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This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a...
Author/Editor: Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

Palles

The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron

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Marking the 2020 centenary of his death, this book explores the judicial legacy of chief baron Christopher Palles, the last chief baron of the Court of Exchequer...
Author/Editor: Oonagh B. Breen & Noel McGrath, editors

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

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This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century Irishman. During his sixty years in public...
Author/Editor: Karina Holton

Confluences of Law and History

Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021

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This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Contributors to the volume...
Author/Editor: Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin

Botany and Gardens in Early Modern Ireland

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This beautifully illustrated book explores sources for botany and gardening in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. It investigates the contributions of individuals such as Philip O’Sullivan Beare and Thomas...
Author/Editor: Elizabethanne Boran, E. Charles Nelson & Emer Lawlor, editors

The Siege of Londonderry

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As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the...
Author/Editor: Piers Wauchope

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, 1634-80

A Privileged Witness

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Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, was a widely recognised hero of his time and his life story directly reflects the turbulent nature of seventeenth-century British and Irish politics....
Author/Editor: Daniel D. Jordan

Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland

A history of amiable excess

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This book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret, which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux in the...
Author/Editor: Patricia McCarthy

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

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This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan