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Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

Suzanne M. Pegley

This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it…
Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don

Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don

Landlordism, liberal Catholicism and unionism in nineteenth-century Ireland

Aidan Enright

This book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O’Conor, the O‘Conor Don (1838–1906), one of the most prominent Catholic landlords and Liberal MPs of his generatio…
Cork

Cork

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Richard S. Grayson

Events in County Cork during the Irish Revolution point to there being 
many different Corks between 1912 and 1923. The county contributed 
some of the most pro…
Noyk

Noyk

Legal advisor to Michael Collins

Barry Whelan

Michael Noyk was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who came to Ireland as a small child. Embarking on a career as a solicitor he gained the trust of Arthur Grif…
Walter Starkie

Walter Starkie

An odyssey

Jacqueline Hurtley

Hispanic scholar, musician and writer, Walter Starkie is perhaps best remembered for his travel books Raggle Taggle – subtitled ‘Adventures with a fiddle in Hun…
Maps in those days

Maps in those days

Cartographic methods before 1850

J.H. Andrews

For some years the emphasis in map-historical literature has been either on traditional cartobibliography or on various cultural, social and ideological aspects…
The diary of Nicholas Peacock, 1740–51

The diary of Nicholas Peacock, 1740–51

The worlds of a County Limerick farmer and agent

Marie-Louise Legg

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…
The bombing of Dolphin's Barn, Dublin, 1941

The bombing of Dolphin's Barn, Dublin, 1941

Eoin Cristóir Bairéad

During the Second World War, aircraft (all German) dropped bombs on this officially neutral state on a number of occasions. The first such occurred on 26 August…
The life of John Buncle, Esq.

The life of John Buncle, Esq.

by Thomas Amory

Moyra Haslett, editor

Thomas Amory’s The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756) is an appealingly eccentric fiction, in which Buncle, a student in Trinity College Dublin, embarks on a serie…
The Dublin fire brigade

The Dublin fire brigade

A history of the brigade, the fires and the emergencies

Tom Geraghty & Trevor Whitehead

This is the story of the firefighters, officers and ambulance personnel who have provided emergency response to the people of Ireland's capital city for many ge…