20th-century history

Emergency law in independent Ireland, 1922–1948

Seosamh Ó Longaigh

Although the major political issues that plagued Ireland in the 19th century (land ownership and self-rule), were largely resolved by 1921, there remained persi…

Subversive law in Ireland, 1879–1920

From 'unwritten law' to the Dáil courts

Heather Laird

The primary focus of this book is subversive law from the Land War period to the establishment of the Dáil courts. More specifically, Subversive law in Ireland …

The Congested Districts Board, 1891–1923

Ciara Breathnach

The Congested Districts Board has been largely misinterpreted and in many respects ignored by revisionist and social historians; this book aims at highlighting …

A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

Toby Barnard

In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being expl…

World War I and nationalist politics in County Louth, 1914–1920

Donal Hall

This study is an exposition of the experience of war and revolution in one rural county in Ireland. The origins of the 1914 split in nationalism are traced to t…

The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory

An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880-1950

Olwen Purdue

This work traces the fortunes of a minor gentry family, the MacGeough Bonds of The Argory, Co. Armagh, through the dramatic changes that occurred in rural Irela…

Ireland and Scotland

Culture and society, 1700–2000

Liam McIlvanney & Ray Ryan, editors

Recent years have seen the consolidation of a new field of academic inquiry: Irish-Scottish Studies. This specially commissioned volume is the most comprehensiv…

Royal Irish Constabulary officers

A biographical dictionary and genealogical guide, 1816–1922

Jim Herlihy

This book lists the 1700 officers of the RIC, including birth, marriage and death dates; the native county, service (if any) in the British army, yeomanry and m…

Our good health

A history of Dublin's water and drainage

Michael Corcoran

Dublin had a supply of piped water since the 13th century and a drainage service since the late 18th century. Their history is related against the backdrop of t…

The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War, 1835–8

Edward M. Brett

The two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunte…

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…

Studies in Irish, British and Australian relations, 1916–63

Trade, diplomacy and politics

John B. O'Brien (Anne O'Brien editor)

With an introduction by David FitzPatrick.

This collection of essays brings together the work of the historian John B. O'Brien who paved the way in the study …