The Dublin Cattle Market's decline, 1955-73

Denis Brenan Bullen (1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster

The controversial career of a Cork surgeon

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Denis Brenan Bullen was a controversial figure in the medical history of Cork in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. As a teenager in 1820 he...
Author/Editor: Michael Hanna

Peadar Cowan (1903-62)

Westmeath GAA administrator and political maverick

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Imprisoned during the War of Independence, Peadar Cowan accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and served as an officer in the Irish army until 1931. While based in Athlone,...
Author/Editor: Tom Hunt

Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

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In 1879 the parish of Knock witnessed both the outbreak of the ‘land war’ and also a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary. The press coverage that...
Author/Editor: Frank Mayes

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

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Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin as an ideal Protestant...
Author/Editor: Gary A. Boyd

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

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After the relative gloom of the 1950s, there was a rapid economic pick-up in the early 1960s. Car ownership increased as standards of living improved and Dublin,...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

All in! All in!: a selection of Dublin children's traditional street-games with rhymes and music

Scríbhinní Béaloidis / Folklore Studies 2

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Children’s traditional street-games play an important part in the folk-life of a country. This book will help parents and educators to realize how happy children are, when...
Author/Editor: Eilís Brady

The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69

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This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates’ social and...
Author/Editor: David Byrne