19th-century history

Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

Laurence M. Geary & Oonagh Walsh editors

This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard …

Ireland and the Crimean War

David Murphy

In 1854 four of the major powers in Europe, Britain, France, Turkey and Russia became embroiled in a devastating and costly war. While hostilities began in Turk…

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…

Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine

Ciarán Reilly

‘The most in-depth study of the effects of the Famine on a landed estate and its community … With the help of this book, we are brought deep inside the actualit…

Irish farming life

History and heritage

Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson

This book examines Irish rural society and its basic social unit – the family farm – as well as important issues such as neighbourly ties and the use of hired l…

Derry Labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 1

New unionism and old, 1889–1906

Emmet O'Connor

Derry was ‘a prosperous town’ in 1905, according to the Board of Trade. Since 1851, its population had almost doubled, and it had acquired a university college,…

The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork

Neil Cronin

In 1820, the surgical management of children with bladder stones in the South Infirmary was criticised by a prominent Cork surgeon, giving rise to a furious and…

Struggle and strife on a Mayo estate, 1833–1903

The Nolans of Logboy and their tenants

Michael Kelly

This book reveals how landlord and tenants on a Mayo estate responded to a series of crises during the Victorian era, dominated by the Famine and the Land War. …

The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45

A society in transition

Daragh Curran

In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the col…

Loughrea, that den of infamy

The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82

Pat Finnegan

During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murder…

The Irish land agent, 1830–60

The case of King's County

Ciarán Reilly

Land agents have been stereotypically represented in Irish history as alien, capricious and in general the tormentors of the tenantry. However, to date, no defi…

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

Terence Dooley

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…