From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

Leitrim

The Irish revolution, 1912-23

Patrick McGarty

Using a wide variety of sources in Ireland and Britain, Patrick McGarty has produced an absorbing, comprehensive and insightful exploration of County Leitrim du…

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Peter A. Daly

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…

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal

Megan McAuley

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 …

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

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

Brendan Twomey

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 affidav…

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

Lesley Whiteside

This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challe…

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies…

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as roy…

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

Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey

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, …