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19th-century history
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State
Nineteenth-century Irish realities
Beginning with Catholic attitudes to the Act of Union this work traces various elements in the interrelationship between the Catholic Church and the state in Ireland in the 19th century. Catholicism’s role in the Protestant state for most of...
Beginning with Catholic attitudes to the Act of Union this work traces various elements in the interrelationship between the Catholic Church and...
Author/Editor:
Oliver Rafferty
South Tipperary, 1570–1841
Religion, land and rivalry
This study explores the interaction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities of South Tipperary from their earliest divergence c.1570 to the culmination of emancipation, c.1841. Particular attention is given to the ultimately unsuccessful strategies of the ruling Protestant establishment...
This study explores the interaction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities of South Tipperary from their earliest divergence c.1570 to the...
Author/Editor:
David J. Butler
Dublin through space & time
This is the first volume in a series that deals with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to the present day. The focus is on the built environment - from both geographical and historical...
This is the first volume in a series that deals with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to...
Author/Editor:
Anngret Simms & Joseph Brady, editors
Local Government in Nineteenth-Century County Dublin
The Grand Jury
Much has been written about the politics and government of nineteenth century Ireland at a national level. Yet the point at which government touched the lives of most people was the local. Over the course of the nineteenth...
Much has been written about the politics and government of nineteenth century Ireland at a national level. Yet the point at which...
Author/Editor:
David Broderick
The Orange Order in Canada
Nowhere in the world – not even in Northern Ireland – was Orangeism more popular than it was in Canada. When the Orange Order reached its peak in the 1920s, 60 per cent of the world’s Orangemen lived...
Nowhere in the world – not even in Northern Ireland – was Orangeism more popular than it was in Canada. When...
Author/Editor:
David A. Wilson, editor
A south Roscommon emigrant
Emigration and return, 1890–1920
Emigrants were a common sight in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland as they left their family farms to make their way to the boat at Queenstown or Liverpool en route to a new, and hopefully more prosperous, life...
Emigrants were a common sight in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland as they left their family farms to make their way to...
Author/Editor:
Diane Dunnigan
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The Irish Militia, 1793–1802
Ireland's forgotten army
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 militia has been much criticized, and its reputation has...
This is the story of the Irish militia in the first period of its existence, the turbulent era of the French revolutionary...
Author/Editor:
Ivan F. Nelson
The murders at Wildgoose Lodge
Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-Famine Ireland
On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote part of County Louth, known locally as Wildgoose Lodge. Those killed included a five-month-old child. The perpetrators...
On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote...
Author/Editor:
Terence Dooley
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The Irish Brigades, 1685–2006
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 represents an attempt to recognize the varied and distinguished service of Irish soldiers. It...
Since the 17th century, Irish soldiers have served in various armies across the world and have achieved a formidable reputation as fighting...
Author/Editor:
David Murphy
Donegal
The making of a Northern county
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 approaches of the literary anthologist with that of the historian and social geographer, Jim...
This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five...
Author/Editor:
Jim Mac Laughlin
Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland
The case of County Roscommon
The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflict in Roscommon during the fifty years before the Famine. He demonstrates that both...
The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict...
Author/Editor:
Michael Huggins
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The Irish county surveyors, 1834–1944
A biographical dictionary
This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county surveyor system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834 of these officials – county engineers in modern terminology – to local government was a major innovation,...
This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county surveyor system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834...
Author/Editor:
Brendan O Donoghue
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