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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…
Wise-woman of Kildare

Wise-woman of Kildare

Moll Anthony and popular tradition in the east of Ireland

Erin Kraus

The retrieval and preservation of local Irish traditions has long been a preoccupation of Irish scholars but interest and research has been focused on the weste…
Matters of deceit

Matters of deceit

Breach of promise to marry cases in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Limerick

Maria Luddy

Cases of breach of promise to marry were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided …
Representing the Troubles

Representing the Troubles

Text and images, 1970–2000

Brian Cliff & Eibhear Walshe, editors

In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged by numerous acts …
Kingdoms united?

Kingdoms united?

Great Britain and Ireland since 1500

S.J. Connolly

In recent years there has been growing interest in the contrasts and parallels between the development of Ireland and that of its closest neighbours: England, S…