Frances Walsingham was the only surviving daughter of an Elizabethan secretary of state, Sir Francis Walsingham. In modern times Frances has enjoyed numerous ca…
This is the first comprehensive account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the par…
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings together legal scholars, historians…
W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland’s ‘greatest legal historian’. He wrote prolifically on Irish legal history and c…
Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to coloniz…
Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, j…
The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although largely a new force, for three ye…