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Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2024)

Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2024)

Liam Mac Mathúna

Éigse Volume 42 includes contributions on medieval texts and manuscripts, an edition of an aisling poem by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin and articles on Manx, the m…
Edmund Sexten Pery

Edmund Sexten Pery

The politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland

David A. Fleming

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s an…
Social memory, reputation and the politics of death in the medieval Irish lordship

Social memory, reputation and the politics of death in the medieval Irish lordship

Joanna MacGugan

Stories of murderous monks, tavern brawls, robberies gone wrong, tragic accidents and criminal gangs from court records reveal how the English of medieval Irela…
Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explo…
The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

Samuel Gary Beckton

In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region…
Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

Seán Byrne

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated b…
Portmagee, Co. Kerry
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Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

Denis Casey

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish hist…
Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world

Neil Cronin

By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this s…
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…
The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

Fergus Murphy

While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latt…