Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

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The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty...
Author/Editor: Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal

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Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that...
Author/Editor: Megan McAuley

From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

The St George estate, 1613-1864

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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...
Author/Editor: Mairead Lynch

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

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

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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...
Author/Editor: Brendan Twomey

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

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This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine...
Author/Editor: Lesley Whiteside

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

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This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology,...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

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Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

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

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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, and...
Author/Editor: Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey