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Clanricarde's planters and land agitation in east Galway, 1886–1916

Miriam Moffit

In 1886 the earl of Clanricarde evicted the tenants of Woodford on his east Galway estate. The ramifications of his actions echoed through Ireland in the late n…

Handloom weavers in Ulster's linen industry, 1815–1914

Kevin J. James

Kevin J. James examines linen handloom weavers as they encountered changes in the industry, and explores fluctuating definitions of men's and women's work in th…

Piss-pots, printers and public opinion in eighteenth-century Dublin

Richard Twiss's 'Tour of Ireland'

Martyn J. Powell

This book explores the visit of the English tourist Richard Twiss to Ireland and the resulting controversy - enthusiastically stoked by Dublin's printers - that…

Text and gloss

Studies in insular language and literature

Helen Conrad-O'Briain Anne-Marie D'Arcy & John Scattergood editors

Text and Gloss casts a wide net across the study and creation of texts and the appropriation and application of Mediterranean culture in Anglo-Saxon England and…

The SDLP

The struggle for agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970–2000

Seán Farren

Established in the midst of civil unrest, community tensions and political uncertainty, the Social Democratic and Labour Party was not expected by many to endur…

Dante and the Church

Paolo Acquaviva & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The topic of Dante's attitude to the Church has exercised scholars since the 14th century, with the Reformation adding fuel to the question. The essays containe…

Dante and the human body

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, lite…

Dante and his literary precursors

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century.

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The Irish in Europe, 1580–1815

Thomas O'Connor, editor

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…

A guide to sources for the history of Irish education, 1780–1922

Susan M. Parkes

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…