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18th-century history

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921

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

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This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent.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's Irish-West Indian odyssey brought him first to the British colony of Barbados and after 1763 to...This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent.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
Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798–1803

Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798–1803

The story of the United Irish rebellions in a hitherto quiet corner of south-west County Dublin is a story of personal resentments fuelled by the spread of radical republican ideology, followed by a violent attempt at altering the social...The story of the United Irish rebellions in a hitherto quiet corner of south-west County Dublin is a story of personal resentments...
Author/Editor: Kerron Ó Luain
Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875
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Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875

The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, including by Dublin bureaucrats and landed and military figures. Entrepreneurial Catholics turned to trade in response to the...The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, including...
Author/Editor: Oliver Whelan
Monksgrange

Monksgrange

Portrait of an Irish house and family, 1769–1969

A County Wexford Ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention, in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a compelling story of Irish history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Its people were not ordinary. One landlord had fought against slavery...A County Wexford Ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention, in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a compelling story of Irish history...
Author/Editor: Philip Bull
The Goldsmiths of Dublin

The Goldsmiths of Dublin

Six centuries of achievement

The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the present. It demonstrates the close link between the guild and the city...The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from...
Author/Editor: Douglas Bennett
Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both manuscript and printed, and draws attention to the wider impact of the European book trade on changing...This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both...
Author/Editor: Elizabethanne Boran, editor
The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hospital was added to the workhouse. The opening chapters...The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its...
Author/Editor: Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley
Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath

Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath

Colonial monasticism in medieval Ireland

Little remains of the Augustinian priory of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, founded by Geoffrey de Costentin around the year 1200 and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Its domestic buildings were apparently lost in the two centuries after its dissolution...Little remains of the Augustinian priory of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, founded by Geoffrey de Costentin around the year 1200 and dedicated to...
Author/Editor: Tadhg O’Keeffe
Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment

'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It underpinned the spread of rural workers' reading societies in Ulster and...'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the...
Author/Editor: Keith Manley
Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century Irishman. During his sixty years in public life, Cloncurry was associated with almost every political or public event...This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century Irishman. During...
Author/Editor: Karina Holton
The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

Ireland, religion and reform

When Richard Whately (1787–1863) was appointed as Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831, his liberalism made him a highly controversial figure within his own church. His wide-ranging involvement in Irish economic and social affairs, including as chairman...When Richard Whately (1787–1863) was appointed as Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831, his liberalism made him a highly controversial...
Author/Editor: Ciara Boylan