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Dublin

Dublin

The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923

Brian Hughes

Dublin – capital of Ireland and, to some at least, the ‘second city of the Empire’ – was central to the Irish Revolution. But there were many different ‘Dublins…
Day Place, Co. Kerry

Day Place, Co. Kerry

“The most respectable locality in Tralee”

Laurence Jones

This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashion…
Barristers in Ireland

Barristers in Ireland

An evolving profession since 1921

Niamh Howlin

Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and…
Meath

Meath

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the ch…
The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory

The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory

An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880-1950

Olwen Purdue

This work traces the fortunes of a minor gentry family, the MacGeough Bonds of The Argory, Co. Armagh, through the dramatic changes that occurred in rural Irela…
Élie Bouhéreau

Élie Bouhéreau

The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee

Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors

Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the …
Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Peter A. Daly

This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her…
Brian Friel

Brian Friel

Beginnings

Kelly Matthews

When Brian Friel died in 2015, the New York Times described him as ‘the Irish Chekhov’, and the Guardian called him ‘the father of modern Irish drama’. He had l…
The Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Force, 1881-3

The Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Force, 1881-3

A short history and complete alphabetical list of the “Magpies”

Jim Herlihy

To augment the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Land War, 1879–82, a new auxiliary police force was raised, entitled the Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary F…
Siege in Ireland, 1641-53

Siege in Ireland, 1641-53

Pádraig Lenihan

Siege was the defining experience of the grindingly brutal and consequential Irish Wars of Religion (1641–53). Civilians were more likely to encounter siege war…