19th-century history

Newspapers and Journalism in Cork City and County, 1910-1923

Press, Politics and Revolution

Alan McCarthy

Newspapers played a key role in shaping and reflecting public opinion during the Irish Revolution, 1910–23. County Cork was home to Skibbereen’s Southern Star a…

Kildare

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Seamus Cullen

This is the first comprehensive single volume history of County Kildare during the Irish Revolution of 1912-23. A noted garrison county, the concentration of Br…

The politics of Dublin corporation, 1840-1900

From reform to expansion

James H. Murphy

Dublin Corporation, the city’s council, was an ancient and prestigious body. In 1840 its system of voting was reformed to allow for more representation by Catho…

Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’

Throughout Ireland and Britain …

Ingenious Ireland

A county-by-county exploration of Irish mysteries and marvels

Mary Mulvihill

Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched an…

An Ulster slave-owner in the revolutionary Atlantic

The life and letters of John Black

Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editor

Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for the West Indies in 1771 and never returned. Settling first in Grenada, he moved on to Trinidad in 1784 and establish…

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921

Mary Phelan

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 Ad…

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors

This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative st…

John Ferrall

Master of Sligo Workhouse, 1852–66

Fergus O'Ferrall

This case study provides the first account to focus on the career and work of a master of an Irish workhouse. It explores the role of a master in respect of iss…

Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798–1803

Kerron Ó Luain

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 radi…

Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875

Oliver Whelan

The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, includin…

Waterford port and harbour, c.1815–42

Shaping the port

Mary Breen

The management and development of Waterford port and harbour during a formative period in Irish history are explored in this book. Particular attention is paid …