Day Place, Co. Kerry

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

Samuel Gary Beckton

In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region…

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

Seán Byrne

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated b…

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world

Neil Cronin

By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this s…

Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

Denis Casey

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish hist…

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

Fergus Murphy

While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latt…