Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, 1634-80

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

Karina Holton

This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century …

The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order during the Famine Years

From reformation to Dolly's Brae

Daragh Curran

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Orange Order of Ireland fell into and emerged from apparent extinction into a vigorous resurrection - which was then stopped …

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

Catherine Wynne

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimea…

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork

David Edwards & Colin Rynne, editors

Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566–1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atl…

The daughters of the first earl of Cork

Writing family, faith, politics and place

Ann-Maria Walsh

Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Boyle (1566–1643), …

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

James O'Neill

The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English…

William Molyneux's The Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated

Patrick Hyde Kelly, editor

A critical edition with introduction and notes

Regarded as the most celebrated Irish political pamphlet published before 1801, William Molyneux’s Case of Irela…

Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, c.1573–6

David Heffernan

Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to coloniz…