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Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century
Coming Spring 2019

Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Irish Musical Studies volume 12

The digitization and online publication of documents is increasing exponentially across the globe thus providing an invaluable resource for professional and amateur researchers. While many academic and cultural institutions provide professional-level contextual information to accompany these documents, there are obvious...The digitization and online publication of documents is increasing exponentially across the globe thus providing an invaluable resource for professional and amateur researchers....
Author/Editor: Kerry Houston, Maria McHale & Michael Murphy, editors
An Ulster slave owner in the revolutionary Atlantic
Coming Spring 2019

An Ulster slave owner in the revolutionary Atlantic

The life and letters of John Black

Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for the West Indies in 1771 and never returned. Settling first in Grenada, he moved on to Trinidad in 1784 and established himself as a major slave owner and a prominent...Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for the West Indies in 1771 and never returned. Settling first in Grenada, he moved...
Author/Editor: Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editor
Society and administration in the Ulster Plantation towns, 1610–89
Coming Spring 2018

Society and administration in the Ulster Plantation towns, 1610–89

Although much has been written on various aspects of the Ulster Plantation, no sustained work on its urban aspects has been undertaken since the research of Robert Hunter. This collection attempts to rectify that lacuna. Topics discussed include poverty...Although much has been written on various aspects of the Ulster Plantation, no sustained work on its urban aspects has been undertaken...
Author/Editor: Brendan Scott, editor
Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin
Coming Spring 2019

Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, the surviving archives give an insight into the lives of middle-class Dubliners, who followed...Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard and Bridget McCormack, editors
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916
Coming Spring 2019

Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916

Anzacs and the Rising

Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. The College is usually mentioned in the context of...Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an...
Author/Editor: Rory Sweetman
Eigse
Coming Spring 2019

Eigse

A Journal of Irish Studies

Published by the National University of Ireland. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and verse ranging from Old Irish...Published by the National University of Ireland. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field...
Author/Editor: Liam Mac Mathúna, editor
The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady
Coming Spring 2019

The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady

An Irish life in writing

Standish O’Grady (1846–1928) is best remembered as the ‘Father of the Irish Literary Revival’. Critics of have long puzzled, however, about the turns and contradictions of the ‘Fenian-unionist’s’ thinking. This book offers an intellectual biography of O’Grady, tracing the...Standish O’Grady (1846–1928) is best remembered as the ‘Father of the Irish Literary Revival’. Critics of have long puzzled, however, about the...
Author/Editor: Christopher Boettcher
Households of God
Coming Summer 2019

Households of God

The Regular Canons and Canonesses of St Augustine and of Prémontré in Medieval Ireland

This interdisciplinary collection of essays, the proceedings of the 2017 Glenstal History Conference, examines the role of Regular Canons and Canonesses who followed the rule of St Augustine in Ireland from their emergence as an expression of the Vita Apostolica...This interdisciplinary collection of essays, the proceedings of the 2017 Glenstal History Conference, examines the role of Regular Canons and Canonesses who...
Author/Editor: Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors
Social life in pre-Reformation Ireland, 1450–1540
Coming Summer 2019

Social life in pre-Reformation Ireland, 1450–1540

This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the cityʼs personalities, and Dublinʼs unwanted Irish. Dublin was an English city run by a local merchant...This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church,...
Author/Editor: Peadar Slattery
The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin
Coming Summer 2019

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative stone, the employment of native craftsmen and the unprecedented eclecticism of its...This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in...
Author/Editor: Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors
An Irishman’s life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787–90
Coming Summer 2019

An Irishman’s life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787–90

The letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane

This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent. From Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, Keane rose through the ranks of colonial society and established a West Indian fortune. He was...This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent. From Ballylongford, Co. Kerry,...
Author/Editor: Mark S. Quintanilla
Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921
Coming Summer 2019

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921

The extent and duration of interpreter provision for Irish speakers appearing in court in the long nineteenth century have long been a conundrum. In 1737 the Administration of Justice (Language) Act stipulated that all legal proceedings in Ireland should...The extent and duration of interpreter provision for Irish speakers appearing in court in the long nineteenth century have long been a...
Author/Editor: Mary Phelan