Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

Jim Mac Laughlin

This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…

The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings AD 800-1060

Darren McGettigan

The kings of Aileach came to prominence in the north of Ireland c.AD 800, just as the first Viking fleets began to raid the coasts of Ulster. At first, Viking a…

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Peter A. Daly

This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her…

From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

The St George estate, 1613-1864

Mairead Lynch

Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Sh…

The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

Brendan Twomey

On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidav…

Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare

Lesley Whiteside

This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challe…

Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages

History, culture and society

Katharine Simms

Nowadays, medieval Gaelic Ulster is virtually invisible. Physical evidence from the four centuries stretching between the invasion of the Anglo-Norman baron Joh…

The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848

Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey

This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, …