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The Irish Coroner

The Irish Coroner

Death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78

Michelle McGoff-McCann

Coroners who conducted inquests into sudden and suspicious deaths in nineteenth-century Ireland were viewed with disdain and disrespect in a society that was hi…
Confluences of Law and History

Confluences of Law and History

Irish Legal History Society Discourses, and other papers, 2011-21

Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin

This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Contributors to the…
Dublin

Dublin

The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923

Brian Hughes

Dublin – capital of Ireland and, to some at least, the ‘second city of the Empire’ – was central to the Irish Revolution. But there were many different ‘Dublins…
The Irish Ringfort

The Irish Ringfort

Matthew Stout

This book, first published in 1997, examines all aspects of Irish ringforts – their shape and size, their date and function – with special attention to national…
Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies (2025)

Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies (2025)

Volume XLII (42)

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
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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…