20th-century history

The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848

Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey

This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, …

Caricature and the Irish

Satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830

Nicholas K. Robinson

From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish du…

Sea and Settlement in Ireland

Geraldine Stout & Matthew Stout

Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first cross the sea and it is this sea connection t…

Dublin

The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923

Brian Hughes

Dublin – capital of Ireland and, to some at least, the ‘second city of the Empire’ – was central to the Irish Revolution. But there were many different ‘Dublins…

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In…

The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland

A Reader

Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors

This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflec…

Brian Friel

Beginnings

Kelly Matthews

When Brian Friel died in 2015, the New York Times described him as ‘the Irish Chekhov’, and the Guardian called him ‘the father of modern Irish drama’. He had l…

The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Finnian O'Cionnaith

Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relation…

Armagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy betw…

Spirit of Revolution

Ireland from below, 1917–1923

John Cunningham & Terry Dunne, editors

In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only …

Harp Studies II

World Harp Traditions

Helen Lawlor & Sandra Joyce, editors

This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the world.

Contributors: Helen Lawlor (TU Dublin); Sandra Joyce (UL)…

Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46

Gerard Hanley

This book assesses the position of workers, trade unionism and labour relations from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment of the Labour C…