Although much has been written on the Ulster Plantation, no sustained work on its urban aspects has been undertaken since the research of Robert Hunter a genera…
The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, includin…
This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the cityʼs…
The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the…
This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both manuscript and p…
Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to coloniz…
A critical edition with introduction and notes Regarded as the most celebrated Irish political pamphlet published before 1801, William Molyneux’s Case of Irela…
Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566–1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atl…
This book brings together leading Irish historians who examine how the history of the Church of Ireland has been written in the 500 years since the Reformation.…
The visitation records of the Church of Ireland were largely destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, thus greatly enhancing the si…
The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English…
Brought to book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral an…
