18th-century history

Restoration Strabane, 1660–1740

Economy and society in provincial Ireland

William Roulston

During the seventeenth century its larger and more imposing neighbour, Derry, often overshadowed Strabane, in the west of Ulster. Yet the story of Strabane in t…

Freemasonry in Ulster, 1733–1813

A social and political history of the masonic brotherhood in the north of Ireland

Petri Mirala

This book explores the role of freemasonry in the Volunteer movement of the 1780s and in the struggles over Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform, revolut…

The Irish Militia, 1793–1802

Ireland's forgotten army

Ivan F. Nelson

This is the story of the Irish militia in the first period of its existence, the turbulent era of the French revolutionary wars from 1793 to 1802. The Irish mil…

Edenderry, County Offaly, and the Downshire estate, 1790–1800

Ciarán Reilly

In the history of the 1798 rising in Ireland, Offaly is regarded as the forgotten county. It was not the scene of major military activity, but that does no mean…

Poynings' Law and the making of law in Ireland, 1660–1800

Monitoring the constitution

James Kelly

Poynings’ Law was one of the most crucial statutes ever enacted by the Irish parliament, yet the law’s crucial impact on parliament’s operations from 1660 has n…

The Irish Brigades, 1685–2006

David Murphy

Since the 17th century, Irish soldiers have served in various armies across the world and have achieved a formidable reputation as fighting men. This book repre…

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

Jim Mac Laughlin

This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…

The Vestry Records of the united Parishes of Finglas, St Margaret's, Artane and the Ward, 1657–1758

Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha, editor

The importance of parish records for the reconstruction of many aspects of past societies is becoming clear from research in other countries. Irish parochial re…

Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641–1770

Toby Barnard

These essays explore what it meant to be a Protestant living in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. These Protestants are shown responding to an enviro…

The Irish in Europe, 1580–1815

Thomas O'Connor, editor

This book explores the activities and achievements of the considerable number of Irish men and women who divided their lives between their homeland and its Euro…

The Kirwans of Castlehacket, Co. Galway

History, folklore and mythology in an Irish horseracing family

Ronan Lynch

This book is a revealing study of the cultural boundaries between the Kirwan family of Castlehacket, Co. Galway, and their tenants. The Kirwans, the only family…

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Religion, politics and identity

Mark G. Spencer & David A. Wilson, editors

In this collection of essays American and Canadian historians explore the changing transatlantic character of the Ulster Presbyterianism in the eighteenth and n…