18th-century history

Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although…

Teresa Ball and Loreto education

Convents and the Colonial World, 1794-1875

Deirdre Raftery

Educated at the Bar Convent, York, Teresa Ball became a pioneer of girls’ education when she returned to Ireland in 1821 and opened Loreto Abbey convent and boa…

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, 1634-80

A Privileged Witness

Daniel D. Jordan

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, was a widely recognised hero of his time and his life story directly reflects the turbulent nature of seventeenth-century British…

Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland

A history of amiable excess

Patricia McCarthy

This book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret, which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux in the early…

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of p…

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

R.A. Somerville

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth cen…

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archa…

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies…

Vinegar Hill

The last stand of the Wexford Rebels of 1798

Ronan O'Flaherty & Jacqui Hynes, editors

On 21 June 1798, 20,000 men, women and children found themselves trapped on a hill outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, facing a Crown force of some 15,000 troops …

The Best Address in Town

Henrietta Street, Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720-80

Melanie Hayes

Once Dublin’s most exclusive residential street, throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta Street was home to the country’s foremost figures from church, mili…

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Alison FitzGerald, editor

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, …

Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610–1714

The origins of an Ulster Plantation town

Brendan Scott

This book charts the plantation town of Belturbet from its inception in the early seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century. It was a period of pro…