This study seeks to assess the role of informers in the 1790s in Ireland, and it does so in two ways. First, it offers a detailed assessment of the dozen or so …
This book provides a summary of the contents of the documentary and published sources for the study of crime held in Irish and British repositories, offers sugg…
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 …
That Island Never Found is a collection of poems and essays in honour of Terence Brown by some of Ireland’s leading writers and scholars. In studies of Louis Ma…
This volume arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth…
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…
Biblical apocalyptic texts that make imminent predictions of the end of the world as we know it, have fascinated Christians from the earliest times. Understanda…
Nicholas Peacock of Kilmoreen, near Adare, Co. Limerick, from 1740 to 1751 kept a detailed account book and diary of his life and work as a small farmer and the…
This book contains the names of all 12,566 members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police as recorded in the Numerical Register of Service. Each entry provides infor…
According to the orthodox, old-fashioned view Salisbury discovered the conspiracy, a second judgement is that he nourished it and a third that he invented it'. …
