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September 2024
The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare
Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy
On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect of a ‘sham robbery’ of gold and...
On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of...
Author/Editor:
Brendan Twomey
September 2024
Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine and the transition from tenancy to ownership, succeeding generations of...
This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant...
Author/Editor:
Lesley Whiteside
August 2024
The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded...
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the...
Author/Editor:
Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors
August 2024
The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland
A Reader
This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflections and contemporary analyses of issues related to the contested and often...
This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics....
Author/Editor:
Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors
June 2024
Brian Friel
Beginnings
When Brian Friel died in 2015, the New York Times described him as ‘the Irish Chekhov’, and the Guardian called him ‘the father of modern Irish drama’. He had long been acclaimed as Ireland’s leading...
When Brian Friel died in 2015, the New York Times described him as ‘the Irish Chekhov’, and the Guardian called...
Author/Editor:
Kelly Matthews
April 2025
Laois
The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
The turbulent revolutionary period in modern Irish history from 1912 to 1923 had a profound impact on the political, economic and social make-up of Laois. The issue of land that had dominated the landscape of...
The turbulent revolutionary period in modern Irish history from 1912 to 1923 had a profound impact on the political, economic...
Author/Editor:
Cormac Moore
October 2024
The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge
An account of Irish affairs, 1162-1370
When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situated today. Anyone who wanted to...
When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey...
Author/Editor:
Bernadette Williams, editor
September 2024
Caricature and the Irish
Satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830
From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish during London’s golden age of caricature. Some of them lampoon...
From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that...
Author/Editor:
Nicholas K. Robinson
September 2024
A century of courts
The Courts of Justice Act, 1924
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings together legal scholars, historians and members of the judiciary, to reflect on the legacies of...
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings...
Author/Editor:
Niamh Howlin, editor
September 2024
Sea and Settlement in Ireland
Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first cross the sea and it is this sea connection that brought new ideas, technologies and...
Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first...
Author/Editor:
Geraldine Stout & Matthew Stout
April 2025
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts
The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory study of the Church of Ireland throughout this turbulent period. This book fills...
The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been...
Author/Editor:
Patrick Little
October 2024
Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800-2024
This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to 2024, one of the dominant issues in Irish politics, society, economy and culture through the...
This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to...
Author/Editor:
Terence Dooley, Tony McCarthy & Annie Tindley
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