This book explores the activities and achievements of the considerable number of Irish men and women who divided their lives between their homeland and its Euro…
Thomas Amory’s The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756) is an appealingly eccentric fiction, in which Buncle, a student in Trinity College Dublin, embarks on a serie…
Originally published in 1781, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion; or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald is an unconventional epistolary novel s…
Published in London only months after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Irish Tales is an historical romance offering a Jacobite reading of early Irish history, c…
This book provides a practical guide to the major collections of business archives for the whole of Ireland and to their appropriate use in historical research.…
This book is an introductory guide for students and researchers in the history of Irish education from 1780–1922. The nineteenth century saw the foundation of t…
This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical records in Latin, French, o…
Historians have been slow to recognize photographs as important primary sources for research and it is only in recent years that photographs are being taken ser…
This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with prac…
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…
