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Patrick McAlister, Bishop of Down and Connor, 1886–95

Patrick McAlister, Bishop of Down and Connor, 1886–95

Ambrose Macaulay

Patrick McAlister was bishop of Down and Connor for only nine years, but during that short episcopate he had to cope with the worst riots of the 19th century in…
Pawns or players?

Pawns or players?

Studies on medieval and early modern women

Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless editors

The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, …
Piss-pots, printers and public opinion in eighteenth-century Dublin

Piss-pots, printers and public opinion in eighteenth-century Dublin

Richard Twiss's 'Tour of Ireland'

Martyn J. Powell

This book explores the visit of the English tourist Richard Twiss to Ireland and the resulting controversy - enthusiastically stoked by Dublin's printers - that…
Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I

Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I

Francis Edwards SJ

A rare historical continuum in Anglo-Irish history ran from 1558 until 1612, years dominated by William and Robert Cecil, father and son. Among the significant …
Political censorship and the democratic state

Political censorship and the democratic state

The Irish broadcasting ban

M. Corcoran & M. O'Brien editors

January 2004 marks the tenth anniversary of the repeal of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, under which for two decades journalists were prohibited from broad…
Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650

Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650

David Edwards

For over thirty-five years much of the most original and most exciting research into the history of medieval and early modern Ireland has been the world of one …
Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath

Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath

Brendan Scott

This book charts the attempts made to introduce religious reforms into the diocese of Meath during the 16th century. The study opens with an investigation of th…
Revolutionary Dublin, 1795–1801

Revolutionary Dublin, 1795–1801

The letters of Francis Higgins to Dublin Castle

Thomas Bartlett

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 …
Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801–1921

Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801–1921

Brian Griffin

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…