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The tripartite life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909)

The tripartite life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909)

Elizabeth Boyle & Paul Russell, editors

This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stok…
Dublin through space & time

Dublin through space & time

Anngret Simms & Joseph Brady, editors

This is the first volume in a series that deals with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to the present day. The focus is on the buil…
Adventures of the Law

Adventures of the Law

Papers delivered at the British & Irish Legal History Conference 2003

Paul Brand, Kevin Costello & W.N. Osoborough, editors

A selection of eighteen papers presented at the conference held in Dublin in July 2003 in the biennial British Legal History series.

Paul Brand is a senior res…
Law in the city

Law in the city

Proceedings of the seventeenth British Legal History Conference 2005

Andrew Lewis, Paul Brand & Paul Mitchell, editors

The essays collected in this volume illuminate a rich variety of important legal historical topics, using a range of methods. In keeping with the traditions of …
The Congested Districts Board, 1891–1923

The Congested Districts Board, 1891–1923

Ciara Breathnach

The Congested Districts Board has been largely misinterpreted and in many respects ignored by revisionist and social historians; this book aims at highlighting …
Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland

Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland

Ciara Breathnach & Catherine Lawless, editors

Emanating from the 2008 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference, this volume brings together scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland worki…
Ireland, Philadelphia and the re-invention of America, 1760–1800

Ireland, Philadelphia and the re-invention of America, 1760–1800

Maurice Bric

While the American Revolution led to the establishment of the United States as an independent republic, it also inaugurated a debate as to what the character an…
Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650–1850

Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650–1850

Michael Brown, Charles I. McGrath & Thomas P. Power, editors

Conversion was a highly controversial aspect of aspect of religious life in early modern Ireland, yet it remains under investigated by modern scholarship. This …
The making of the modern Scottish Highlands, 1939–1965
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The making of the modern Scottish Highlands, 1939–1965

Withstanding the 'colossus of advancing materialism'

John A. Burnett

The period between 1939 and 1965 was a critical juncture in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands – a phase when war, welfarism and the planned inte…
Ailerani Interpretatio Mystica Progenitorum Domini Iesu Christi

Ailerani Interpretatio Mystica Progenitorum Domini Iesu Christi

Aidan Breen, editor

Little is known of Ailerán, except that he was lector of Clonard, Co. Meath, and that he died in the great plague of 665. He is also credited with the authorshi…