Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

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

Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, 1190–1610

Custom and conflict in a baronial town

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Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. Our knowledge of Anglo-Norman Ireland is derived from a wide spectrum of written records: charters, legal and...
Author/Editor: Adrian Empey

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

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

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Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of political power through institutions...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

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

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

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Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties in the domestic sphere and...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Edmund Sexten Pery

The politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland

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Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later...
Author/Editor: David A. Fleming