The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

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

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

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

Kildare

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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This is the first comprehensive single volume history of County Kildare during the Irish Revolution of 1912-23. A noted garrison county, the concentration of British military personnel in...
Author/Editor: Seamus Cullen

Morristown Lattin, County Kildare, 1630–1800

The estate and its tenants

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Through an examination of the estate records, this case study provides an insight into the adaption and survival of a Catholic-owned estate during two tumultuous periods in Irish...
Author/Editor: Emma Lyons

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

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This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it...
Author/Editor: Suzanne M. Pegley