19th-century history

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…

The Catholic Church and the Protestant State

Nineteenth-century Irish realities

Oliver Rafferty

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 Ir…

South Tipperary, 1570–1841

Religion, land and rivalry

David J. Butler

This study explores the interaction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities of South Tipperary from their earliest divergence c.1570 to the culmin…

Dublin through space & time

Anngret Simms & Joseph Brady, editors

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 buil…

Local Government in Nineteenth-Century County Dublin

The Grand Jury

David Broderick

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 o…

The Orange Order in Canada

David A. Wilson, editor

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 …

A south Roscommon emigrant

Emigration and return, 1890–1920

Diane Dunnigan

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 …

The Irish Militia, 1793–1802

Ireland's forgotten army

Ivan F. Nelson

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 mil…

The murders at Wildgoose Lodge

Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-Famine Ireland

Terence Dooley

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.…