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…
This book focuses on how local historians can source and use the various censuses and universal taxation returns and a variety of other sources of the pre-censu…
Among the most important of modern documents associated with Christ Church Cathedral are the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials which stretch from 171…
The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between th…
Poynings’ Law was one of the most crucial statutes ever enacted by the Irish parliament, yet the law’s crucial impact on parliament’s operations from 1660 has n…
This is the third collection of papers read at meetings of the Irish Legal History Society during 2000-4, along with some other papers on Irish legal history. …
With a foreword by John Bowman. The revival of interest in the sacrifices made by so many Irishmen of all backgrounds in the First World War makes the appearan…