Pre-Famine Fever Epidemics

Dublin’s women street traders, 1882-1932

Susan Marie Martin

A ballad about a woman street trader is widely regarded as Dublin’s anthem, yet the city’s relationship with those who traded on its streets was often acrimonio…

Finding Mary

The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844

Angela Byrne

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the …

The Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate under William Robert Hood Rochfort, 1891-1902, in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary

Margaret O'Sullivan

In this study, using the words of both the land agent, William Rochfort (1847–1940), and the tenants on the Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate in Counties Cork, Limer…

Building Mitchelstown, 1779-1830

David A. Fleming

Mitchelstown in Co. Cork was one of over 750 Irish towns built or remodelled between 1690 and 1840. Its regular street plan, linear building plots and uniform a…

Factory life in Industrial Yarns Ltd, Bray, 1958-98

Kieran Devenish

Industrial Yarns Ltd, a large textiles factory and one of Seán Lemass’s flagship industrial projects, provided well-paid employment for hundreds of workers in B…

Dublin

The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923

Brian Hughes

Dublin – capital of Ireland and, to some at least, the ‘second city of the Empire’ – was central to the Irish Revolution. But there were many different ‘Dublins…

Cathal Brugha

‘An Indomitable Spirit’

Daithí Ó Corráin & Gerard Hanley

By any measure, Cathal Brugha’s life was extraordinary: a member of the Gaelic League, Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers; a celebrated survivor …

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…

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hos…

Irish Nurses in the NHS

An oral history

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi

From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. B…