Improvement and nationhood

Essays in Irish history, 1700–1850 presented to James Kelly

David Hayton and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh

James Kelly, historian
Martyn J. Powell

The ‘French prophets’ in Ireland: confessionalism and toleration
Andrew Sneddon

Electing and being elected in Ascendancy Ireland
David Hayton

‘Edifying’ Irish bishops and their contribution to domestic architecture
Anthony Malcomson

Debtor imprisonment in eighteenth-century Ireland
Brendan Twomey

Short Irish catechisms in the eighteenth century
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh

The Warrens of Corduff, Co. Dublin, at home and abroad: maintaining a family network in the mid-eighteenth century
Mary Ann Lyons

Military rioting in late eighteenth-century Dublin: popular radicalism and recreational violence
Martyn J. Powell

Capital of the Defenders? Drogheda in the 1790s
David Dickson

Imagining Ireland: the Irish ‘national tale’ before 1801
Toby Barnard 

An American loyalist in Ulster: Cortland Macgregor Skinner’s struggle for order
Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

Banking on Bonaparte: making a show of Napoleon in Georgian Dublin
Alison FitzGerald

Assembling the Royal Irish Academy’s Hodges and Smith manuscript collection, 1828–44
Bernadette Cunningham

The origins of Irish federalism, 1830–44
Peter Gray

The politics of urban improvement: the Belfast improvement acts, 1845–50
Sean Connolly

A bibliography of the historical writings of James Kelly, 1985–2025
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh