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The big houses and landed estates of Ireland

A research guide

Terence Dooley

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…

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

A history

John Crawford & Raymond Gillespie, editors

Dublin is an unusual city in having two Anglican cathedrals within a few hundred yards of each other, St Patrick’s cathedral and the diocesan cathedral of Chris…

The death of Fr John Walsh at Kilgraney

Community tensions in pre-Famine Carlow

Maura Cronin

On 31 July 1835 the body of a local catholic curate, Fr John Walsh, was found near Kilgraney bridge near Borris in County Carlow. How had he died? It was likely…

Medieval Dublin VII

Seán Duffy, editor

This 7th volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium contains, in the archaeological arena, John Ó Néill's assessment of the signif…

Bristol's trade with Ireland and the Continent, 1503–1601

The evidence of the Exchequer customs accounts

Evan Jones & Susan Flavin, editors

The English exchequer customs accounts are the most thorough, comprehensive and long-running records of foreign trade to exist for any country in the pre-modern…

Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

Robin Haines

Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government’s parsimonious respons…

Deluge

Ireland's weather disasters, 2009–2010

Kieran Hickey

In 2009–2010 Ireland experienced a remarkable sequence of weather disasters and freak natural occurrences. The summer of 2009 broke all sorts of rainfall record…

The Dublin region in the middle ages

Settlement, land-use and economy

Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton

This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained an…

Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786–1909

Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett

While picture-going or cinema is generally regarded as a twentieth-century activity, this book demonstrates that prior to the opening of Ireland’s first cinemas…

Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, vol. I

The Ogham inscriptions of Ireland and Britain

R.A.S. Macalister

The earliest writing in Ireland is in the form of ogham inscriptions, carved along the edges of numerous stones found throughout the country, with a strong conc…