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Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century

Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century

Frank Ferguson & James McConnel, editors

This volume re-examines the relationship between Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century. It questions the received ideas about the extent of cultural ha…
A history of the king's serjeants at law in Ireland

A history of the king's serjeants at law in Ireland

Honour rather than advantage?

A.R. Hart

In this history of the ancient, and now defunct, office of the king's serjeant at law in Ireland, Judge Hart traces the development of an office which was at th…
Staging Ireland

Staging Ireland

Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama

Stephen O'Neill

This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range o…
The progress of music in Ireland
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The progress of music in Ireland

Harry White

This book collects a number of essays on the relationship between music, cultural history and musicology in Ireland which, taken together, comprise a natural pr…
Sending out Ireland's poor

Sending out Ireland's poor

Assisted emigration to North America in the nineteenth-century

Gerard Moran

Between 1800 and 1914 over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends…
The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

Ambrose Macaulay

Catholics in Ireland and England campaigning for relief from the penal laws, and later, for emancipation, were obliged to deal with the Holy See and the governm…
Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd

James Kelly

Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early …
Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland

Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland

Mark O'Brien & Felix M. Larkin editors

This book explores the links between Irish periodical journals of the twentieth century and journalism. From the early 1900s onwards, journals advocating an Iri…
The Morpeth Roll

The Morpeth Roll

Ireland identified in 1841

Christopher Ridgway, editor

In 1841, on stepping down as chief secretary, George Howard, Lord Morpeth, received a grand farewell testimonial from the people of Ireland. This took the form …