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Victoria's Ireland?

Victoria's Ireland?

Irishness and Britishness, 1837–1901

Peter Gray, editor

This collection of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the articulation and interplay of 'Irish' and 'British' identities during the Victorian period in Ireland…
Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

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…
Ulster liberalism, 1778–1876
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Ulster liberalism, 1778–1876

Gerald Hall

Beginning in 1778, Volunteers such as William Bruce and William Drennan gathered, often in uniform, to discuss a constitutional crisis in Ireland in terms of cl…
Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140–1540

Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140–1540

Dianne Hall

A major study of women and the medieval Irish church, this book includes ground-breaking investigations of medieval nunneries in Ireland, their personnel, patro…
The modern traveller to the early Irish church

The modern traveller to the early Irish church

Ann Hamlin & Kathleen Hughes

The monastic sites of early Christian Ireland have always been an attraction to visitors. Now issued in a new edition, this book is intended for use by those wh…
The IRA, 1926–36

The IRA, 1926–36

Brian Hanley

Although many books have been written about the IRA, little attention has been paid to the rank and file of the organization as well as the movement in 1930s Ir…
A history of the king's serjeants at law in Ireland

A history of the king's serjeants at law in Ireland

Honour rather than advantage?

A.R. Hart

In this history of the ancient, and now defunct, office of the king's serjeant at law in Ireland, Judge Hart traces the development of an office which was at th…
Medieval French miracle plays

Medieval French miracle plays

Seven falsely accused women

Carol J. Harvey

In the Middle Ages, religious theatre was a popular medium for both the edification and the entertainment of the public. This book centres on seven of the forty…
Poverty in late Middle English literature

Poverty in late Middle English literature

The meene and the riche

Dinah Hazell

Studies of medieval poverty tend to focus on a few works, particularly Piers Plowman and related texts, and on the indigent and rural poor. This book presents a…
Fear

Fear

Essays on the meaning and experience of fear

Kate Hebblethwaite & Elizabeth McCarthy, editors

Fear: essays on the meaning and experience of fear examines the effect of fear on the human experience and the ways in which its manifestation has shaped the cr…