Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

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In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. This...
Author/Editor: Samuel Gary Beckton

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

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The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years,...
Author/Editor: Seán Byrne

Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

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King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of Bréifne...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world

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By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this story is Marsden Haddock,...
Author/Editor: Neil Cronin

Day Place, Co. Kerry

“The most respectable locality in Tralee”

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This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most...
Author/Editor: Laurence Jones

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

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While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latter group have received little scholarly...
Author/Editor: Fergus Murphy