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

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

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

Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

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This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey

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

Iona, Kells, and Derry

The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba

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First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth...
Author/Editor: Máire Herbert

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

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This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the approaches of...
Author/Editor: Jim Mac Laughlin

The Walker Testimonial and symbolic conflict in Derry

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How did one 19th-century memorial to a 17th-century figure come to be so significant in the city of Derry that it would generate conflict for nearly 200...
Author/Editor: Heather Stanfiel

Derry

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city divided along confessional and political...
Author/Editor: Adrian Grant

Donegal

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

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This new assessment of Donegal in the revolutionary period expands and refines our understanding of the nature of the Irish Revolution itself. While not in the vanguard...
Author/Editor: Pauric Travers