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Early Irish kingship and succession

Early Irish kingship and succession

Bart Jaski

Early medieval Ireland was ruled by a large number of lords, kings and overkings. In a complicated network of affiliations the Irish kings and the dynasties to …
The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

Henry A. Jefferies

This book presents a new interpretation of the state of the Irish Church before the Tudor reformations. Part I shows that the Irish Church, far from being in de…
The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship

Douglas Kanter

Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…
Charles Maturin

Charles Maturin

Authorship, authenticity and the nation

Jim Kelly

Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

James Kelly & Martyn J. Powell, editors

Clubs and societies emerge as a distinct feature of the Irish social landscape from the end of the seventeenth century. The most notable early organization was …
'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

Jennifer Kelly

This study looks at the Ribbon secret society in Sligo town and county in the early nineteenth century. Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county…
The Liberty and Ormond boys

The Liberty and Ormond boys

Factional riots in eighteenth-century Dublin

James Kelly

This study of factional disorder sets the Liberty and Ormond Boys in their contemporary context. The conditions necessary to enable factions to develop and flou…
Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818

Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818

Ultra-protestant ideologue

James Kelly

Sir Richard Musgrave, Bart. (1746–1818) is properly best known as the author of Memoirs of the various rebellions in Ireland – the seminal history of the 1798 R…
Sir Edward Newenham MP, 1734–1814

Sir Edward Newenham MP, 1734–1814

Defender of the Protestant constitution

James Kelly

Propagandist, popular politician, conservative reactionary, Edward Newenham excited sharply different responses during his lifetime. He was encouraged by his ad…
Ciaran Carson

Ciaran Carson

Critical Essays

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, editor

This collection of thirteen essays, penned by an array of leading scholars in the field, is the first full-length critical study of the Belfast poet and prose w…