Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare

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

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

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This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school...
Author/Editor: Peter A. Daly

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal

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Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were...
Author/Editor: Megan McAuley

From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

The St George estate, 1613-1864

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Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and...
Author/Editor: Mairead Lynch

The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

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On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect...
Author/Editor: Brendan Twomey

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

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

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Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests....
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848

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This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, and the challenges they...
Author/Editor: Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey