The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell editors

From the mid-nineteenth century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporar…

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 …

Ourselves Alone?

Religion, society and politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland: essays presented to S.J. Connolly

D.W. Hayton & Andrew R. Holmes, editors

This collection of new work by established scholars explores a range of topics in the history of Ireland between the Williamite Revolution and the mid-nineteent…

Family histories of the Irish Revolution

Ciara Boylan, Sarah-Anne Buckley and Pat Dolan, editors

Some of the stories from current and retired staff at NUI Galway have been buried for generations, and their publication sheds new light on the complex politics…

The Church of Ireland and its past

history, interpretation and identity

Mark Empey, Alan Ford & Miriam Moffitt, editors

This book brings together leading Irish historians who examine how the history of the Church of Ireland has been written in the 500 years since the Reformation.…