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Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explo…
National Hunt and Point-to-Point Racing in Ireland

National Hunt and Point-to-Point Racing in Ireland

A history

Frances Nolan

The Irish people have a deep affinity for horses and an enduring passion for the sport they make possible. Jump racing - often regarded as the "poor relation" o…
James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1872-1970

James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1872-1970

Michael Loughman

Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…
Gothic

Gothic

Building Castles in post-Union Ireland

Judith Hill

Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The act of union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association with Britain, cha…
Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

Laurence M. Geary & Oonagh Walsh editors

This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard …
Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Life and works

Luke Gibbons & Kieran O'Conor, editors

Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare (1710–91) was one of 18th-century Ireland’s greatest scholars. Writing in both Irish and English, his work was clearly influenced…
A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…
Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

Robin Frame

Between 1169 and around 1240, large parts of Ireland were occupied by members of an Anglo-Norman upper class, which had already advanced into Wales and which wa…
Gothic Ireland

Gothic Ireland

Horror and the Irish Anglican imagination in the eighteenth century

Jarlath Killeen

This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which constitutes the inau…
A history of Irish farming, 1750–1950

A history of Irish farming, 1750–1950

Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson

The book deals with changing methods of crop and livestock production during the ‘Age of Improvement’ in Ireland, and some of the ways in which they shaped rura…