19th-century history

Murder trials in Ireland, 1836–1914

W.E. Vaughan

The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between th…

Margaret Aylward, 1810–1889

Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith

Jacinta Prunty

Margaret Aylward was a wealthy Waterford woman who devoted her considerable talents to improving the lot of poor families in Dublin during the second half of th…

Virtues of a wicked earl

The life and legend of William Sydney Clements, 3rd earl of Leitrim, 1806–78

Anthony Malcomson

On 2 April 1878, the 3rd earl of Leitrim was brutally murdered on a public road on the edge of his estate in Co. Donegal. The identity of the killers and their …

Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers

Dáire Keogh

In 1944, W.T. Cosgrave described the Christian Brothers as 'Ireland's gift to civilization'. More recently, a former government minister called them 'a shower o…

A history of Irish farming, 1750–1950

Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson

The book deals with changing methods of crop and livestock production during the ‘Age of Improvement’ in Ireland, and some of the ways in which they shaped rura…

Tallaght, 1835–50

A rural place

Sean Bagnall

Tallaght has undergone dramatic change in the past forty years. Immense changes to the physical landscape in that time make very difficult any attempt to visual…

Print culture in Loughrea, 1850–1900

Reading, writing and printing in an Irish provincial town

Bernadette Lally

This study examines the demand for and supply of print in Loughrea in the second half of the nineteenth century. Literacy levels grew steadily throughout the pe…

The murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847

Padraig Vesey

On 2 November 1847 Major Denis Mahon was murdered by an assassin near his home at Strokestown House. The murder sent shock waves through Ireland. Some sent it a…

The Fishery of Arklow, 1800–1950

Jim Rees

Surprisingly few Irish coastal communities have looked to the sea for their economic well-being. Arklow, Co. Wicklow was one of those exceptions. In 1836 it was…

'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

Jennifer Kelly

This study looks at the Ribbon secret society in Sligo town and county in the early nineteenth century. Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county…

A biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers

Second edition

Richard S. Harrison

This revised and expanded second edition of a book first published in 1997 offers sketches of a wide range of Irish Quakers, mostly 18th- and 19th-century figur…

Spanish-Irish relations through the ages

Declan M. Downey & Julio Crespo MacLennan editors

This collection of essays, the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Spanish-Irish Relations, held in Salamanca in 2004, is representative of a who…