18th-century history

Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602–1820

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594–1603, marked a turning point in Irish history. However, although the political power of th…

Archbishop Charles Agar

Churchmanship and politics in Ireland, 1760–1810

Anthony Malcomson

Charles Agar, archbishop of Cashel, 1779–1801, and archbishop of Dublin 1801–9, has generally been regarded as a good example of what was worst and worldliest i…

Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719–1730

Michael Brown

Recognized as the ‘Father of the Scottish Enlightenment’ and an intellectual ancestor of the United Irishmen, Francis Hutcheson (1692–1746) is a figure of inter…

Rossin, County Meath

An unofficial place

Bryn Coldrick

The area known as Rossin is found on few maps. Instead of being an artificial creation of political or religious administration, it is an unofficial entity whic…

The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

All sorts and conditions

Raymond Gillespie & W.G. Neely, editors

Religion has always been central to an understanding of the Irish past and the experience of the Church of Ireland, as the established church before 1870, has e…

'The academy of warre': military affairs in Ireland, 1600 to 1800

The O'Donnell Lecture 2002

Thomas Bartlett

Published by the National University of Ireland.

Charles James O’Donnell, born 1850, provided a bequest in 1935 to fund an annual lecture in the National Unive…

Irish fairs and markets

Studies in local history

Denis A. Cronin, Jim Gilligan & Karina Holton, editors

This book is the first major study of buying and selling at local level in Ireland. The contributors analyse different aspects of the exchange and sale of goods…

The sieges of Derry

William Kelly, editor

Few events in Irish history have generated such an output of writing, reaction and controversy as the siege of Derry in 1689. In fact, the events of those month…

Lord Charlemont and his circle

Michael McCarthy, editor

The essays in this book derive largely from a symposium held to celebrate the bicentenary of the death of James Caulfeild, 1st earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), p…

Women and paid work in Ireland, 1500–1930

Bernadette Whelan, editor

This book seeks to further unravel the working experiences of Irish women in the period from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland

S.J. Connolly, editor

The period between the Williamite war and the act of union saw different groups in Irish society forced to reassess their ideas of political and national identi…

The making of the eighteenth-century Irish constitution

Government, parliament and the revenue, 1692–1714

Charles Ivar McGrath

The Glorious Revolution and the Irish War of 1689–91 fundamentally altered the course of Irish constitutional and political history. However, primarily because …