John Foster (1740–1828)

Virtues of a wicked earl

The life and legend of William Sydney Clements, 3rd earl of Leitrim, 1806–78

Anthony Malcomson

On 2 April 1878, the 3rd earl of Leitrim was brutally murdered on a public road on the edge of his estate in Co. Donegal. The identity of the killers and their …

Nathaniel Clements (1705–77)

Politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland

Anthony Malcomson

This book argues that Nathaniel Clements was an enlightened patron of architecture, not a practising architect, and that he influenced upper-class residential d…

Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell editors

From the mid-nineteenth century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporar…