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Mapping Death

Mapping Death

Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland

Elizabeth O'Brien

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Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment…
Plantagenet Ireland

Plantagenet Ireland

Robin Frame

For more than two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English cr…
Ireland and the Crusades

Ireland and the Crusades

Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O'Keeffe, editors

The crusades – a broad term encompassing a disparate series of military expeditions, with the avowed intent of preserving/expanding Christianity and the heterod…
Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Insular castle-building in its European context

Tadhg O'Keeffe

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have …
Spectral Mansions

Spectral Mansions

The making of a Dublin tenement, 1800–1914

Timothy Murtagh

In 1800, Dublin was one of the largest and most impressive cities in Europe. The city’s town houses and squares represented the pinnacle of Georgian elegance. H…
Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

Denis Casey

King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of …
Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610–1714

Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610–1714

The origins of an Ulster Plantation town

Brendan Scott

This book charts the plantation town of Belturbet from its inception in the early seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century. It was a period of pro…
Morristown Lattin, County Kildare, 1630–1800
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Morristown Lattin, County Kildare, 1630–1800

The estate and its tenants

Emma Lyons

Through an examination of the estate records, this case study provides an insight into the adaption and survival of a Catholic-owned estate during two tumultuou…
Crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Belfast

Crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Belfast

The story of John Linn

Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of Irish men and woman were transported as convicts to Britain’s penal colonies in Australia. Few, ho…
Representing Belfast's pasts

Representing Belfast's pasts

Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editors

From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these c…