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Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

The case of County Roscommon

Michael Huggins

The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflic…
The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

Henry A. Jefferies

This book presents a new interpretation of the state of the Irish Church before the Tudor reformations. Part I shows that the Irish Church, far from being in de…
The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship

Douglas Kanter

Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…
Charles Maturin

Charles Maturin

Authorship, authenticity and the nation

Jim Kelly

Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

James Kelly & Martyn J. Powell, editors

Clubs and societies emerge as a distinct feature of the Irish social landscape from the end of the seventeenth century. The most notable early organization was …
'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

Jennifer Kelly

This study looks at the Ribbon secret society in Sligo town and county in the early nineteenth century. Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county…
Studies in the gothic revival

Studies in the gothic revival

Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, editors

This book contains the text and illustrations of ten papers delivered at a conference held in the Irish Architectural Archive in January 2005 to mark the retire…
A guide to Irish fiction, 1650–1900
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A guide to Irish fiction, 1650–1900

Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber, with Anne M. Burnham

Most Irish fiction published between 1650 and 1900 has fallen into virtual oblivion. Research by the Loebers for their Guide to Irish Fiction has led to the ide…
The Irish county surveyors, 1834–1944

The Irish county surveyors, 1834–1944

A biographical dictionary

Brendan O Donoghue

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county surveyor system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834 of these officials – cou…
Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers

Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers

Dáire Keogh

In 1944, W.T. Cosgrave described the Christian Brothers as 'Ireland's gift to civilization'. More recently, a former government minister called them 'a shower o…