19th-century history

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…

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…

Violence, Politics and Catholicism in Ireland

Oliver P. Rafferty SJ

This collection of essays looks at the interrelated themes of Catholicism, violence and politics in the Irish context in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

Mary Clark, editor

Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…

Bridges of Dublin

The remarkable story of Dublin's Liffey bridges

Annette Black & Michael B. Barry

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than one thousand years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their s…

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

Nicola Gordon Bowe

Shortlisted for The Apollo Awards 2016 Book of the Year and The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016.

Also, Times Literary Supplement choice f…

The middle class of Callan, Co. Kilkenny, 1825–45

Pierce Grace

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.

This short book uses the remarkable diaries of Callan resident Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin to examine the changing …

Crime in the city

Kilkenny in 1845

Fergal Donoghue

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.

This book investigates crime and sentencing at petty sessions, quarter sessions and assizes in Kilkenny city in …

Lough Ree

Historic lakeland settlement

Bernadette Cunningham & Harman Murtagh, editors

Combining archaeology, historical geography, history and literature, this book explores the settlement history of Lough Ree through the centuries. Themes includ…

Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915

Building on the past

Niamh NicGhabhann

This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three ma…

The Irish Country House

Its past, present and future

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

‘In their variety, these essays indicate how very new is serious analysis of the Irish country house and how many avenues remain to be explored’, Irish Times. 
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Mayo's Lost Islands

The Inishkeas

Brian Dornan

The Inishkeas are low-lying islands a few miles off the coast of the Mullet peninsula in County Mayo. The past 4,000 years have seen several layers of settlemen…