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Vertue rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693)

Vertue rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693)

Ian Campbell Ross & Anne Markey, editors

Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693) is one of the earliest examples of Irish prose fiction. Published in London, the novel is set in and around Clonm…
Exploring the history and heritage of Irish landscapes

Exploring the history and heritage of Irish landscapes

Patrick J. Duffy

This book highlights the principal themes and elements in the making of the landscape, and the sources which can assist historians and historical geographers in…
The first chapter act book of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 1574–1634

The first chapter act book of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 1574–1634

Raymond Gillespie, editor

This is the earliest chapter act book in Ireland and contains the basic material not only for the history of the cathedral but for charting the progress of the …
Atlantic gateway
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Atlantic gateway

The port and city of Londonderry since 1700

Robert Gavin, William P. Kelly & Dolores O'Reilly

This study takes a fresh look at the economic role of North West Ireland and the port and city of Derry. It sees the region as prospering from exchanges of labo…
Sir Henry Docwra, 1564–1631

Sir Henry Docwra, 1564–1631

Derry's second founder

John McGurk

An account of Docwra's Derry-based campaigns during the Nine Years War, this book draws on contemporary documents and the skill of a military and political hist…
The law of habeas corpus in Ireland
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The law of habeas corpus in Ireland

The history, scope of review and practice under Article 40.4.2 of the Irish Constitution

Kevin Costello

This study describes the evolution of the habeas corpus remedy in Ireland from the Elizabethan era to the enactment of Article 40.4. It analyses the scope of th…
Gladstone: Ireland and beyond

Gladstone: Ireland and beyond

Mary E. Daly & K. Theodore Hoppen, editors

This book examines aspects of Gladstone’s relationship with Ireland, setting this in the context of the United Kingdom and Empire. It is based on papers given a…
The Nabob

The Nabob

A tale of ninety-eight

Andrew James. Notes and afterword by John Wilson Foster

A series of interconnected tales published in 1911 as Ninety-Eight and Sixty Years After. These vivid tales, set in Co. Antrim in 1798 and sixty years later, ar…
Revolutionary lawyers

Revolutionary lawyers

Sinn Féin and crown courts in Ireland and Britain, 1916–23

David Foxton

This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the Easter Rising and the Civi…
Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

Robin Haines

Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government’s parsimonious respons…