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Brought to book

Print in Ireland, 1680–1784

Toby Barnard

Brought to book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral an…
Schools and schooling, 1650–2000

Schools and schooling, 1650–2000

New perspectives on the history of education – the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures

James Kelly & Susan Hegarty, editors

This collection pursues new areas of inquiry and offers new perspectives on familiar subjects in the history of education in Ireland and Europe from the sevente…
The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eightee…
Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd

James Kelly

Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early …
The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

Ireland, religion and reform

Ciara Boylan

When Richard Whately (1787–1863) was appointed as Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831, his liberalism made him a highly controversial figure within h…
Culture, politics and local government in Fingal, 1891–1914
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Culture, politics and local government in Fingal, 1891–1914

Declan Brady

The period from the death of Parnell to the Home Rule crisis is popularly thought to be somewhat stagnant posited between more momentous events. The fracturing …
Kerry, 1600–1730

Kerry, 1600–1730

The emergence of a British Atlantic county

Marc Caball

Kerry’s coastal location within the north-western corner of the north Atlantic positioned it strategically within a wider sphere of unparalleled discovery, migr…
Castle Hyde

Castle Hyde

The changing fortunes of an Irish country house

Terence Dooley

Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book details its rise as a country residence during the heyday o…
The Shawlies

The Shawlies

Cork's women street traders and the 'merchant city', 1901–50

Susan Marie Martin

For centuries, working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlie…
The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

Janet Moody

This publication aims to re-constitute a micro-community of 132 families living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 censu…