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Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2023)

Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2023)

Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual and contextual studies. *Liam Mac Mathúna* is Professor Emeritus of Irish at University College Dublin. His extensive publications...Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual...
Author/Editor: Liam Mac Mathúna

The Irish Coroner

The Irish Coroner

Death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78

Coroners who conducted inquests into sudden and suspicious deaths in nineteenth century Ireland were viewed with disdain and disrespect in a society that was highly politicised and deeply divided. Whilst men who served in the role represented the authority...Coroners who conducted inquests into sudden and suspicious deaths in nineteenth century Ireland were viewed with disdain and disrespect in a society...
Author/Editor: Michelle McGoff-McCann

Mayo

Mayo

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

The land question had a crucial formative influence on Mayo politics in the decades before the First World War and this book shows the part played by many prominent nationalist figures such as Davitt, O’Brien, Dillon and MacBride...The land question had a crucial formative influence on Mayo politics in the decades before the First World War and this book...
Author/Editor: Joost Augusteijn

Medieval Dublin XIX

Medieval Dublin XIX

This volume contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s fascinating medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René Gapert that re-examine skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas...This volume contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s fascinating medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René...
Author/Editor: Seán Duffy, editor

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests. With the rise of the railway and then the motor-car, houses...Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. This was a reaction to policies made in the Irish Free State...In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer...
Author/Editor: Samuel Gary Beckton

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years, population increased rapidly. From the 1820s onwards, in the wake of...The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As...
Author/Editor: Seán Byrne

Portmagee

Portmagee

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to scrutiny when investigated at local level. Christianization, Norman...This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world

By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this story is Marsden Haddock, who devised an exhibition of mechanical ingenuity, the Androides. Haddock’s spectacle...By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero...
Author/Editor: Neil Cronin

Day Place

Day Place

“The most respectable locality in Tralee”

This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashionable and sought-after address in the town and residents of the terrace...This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period....
Author/Editor: Laurence Jones

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latter group have received little scholarly attention, and this volume helps to fill that gap. It looks...While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this...
Author/Editor: Fergus Murphy

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties in the domestic sphere and daily life remain hazy. This collection investigates a wide and varied...Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

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