19th-century history

The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

All sorts and conditions

Raymond Gillespie & W.G. Neely, editors

Religion has always been central to an understanding of the Irish past and the experience of the Church of Ireland, as the established church before 1870, has e…

The Factory Acts in Ireland, 1802–1914

Desmond Greer & James W. Nicolson

Working conditions in Irish industry prior to 1914 were frequently harsh and dangerous, particularly for women and children. The large textile, shipbuilding and…

The Dublin Metropolitan Police Alphabetical listing

A complete alphabetical list of officers and men, 1836–1925

Jim Herlihy

This book contains the names of all 12,566 members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police as recorded in the Numerical Register of Service. Each entry provides infor…

Ireland and Hungary

A study in parallels with an Arthur Griffith bibliography

Thomas Kabdebo

Irish-Hungarian Affinities explores historical similarities and spiritual affinities between two European nations geographically far from each other. It is now …

Irish fairs and markets

Studies in local history

Denis A. Cronin, Jim Gilligan & Karina Holton, editors

This book is the first major study of buying and selling at local level in Ireland. The contributors analyse different aspects of the exchange and sale of goods…

Rebellion and remembrance in modern Ireland

Laurence M. Geary, editor

The fifth volume in a series focusing on 19th-century Ireland.

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The sieges of Derry

William Kelly, editor

Few events in Irish history have generated such an output of writing, reaction and controversy as the siege of Derry in 1689. In fact, the events of those month…

Women and paid work in Ireland, 1500–1930

Bernadette Whelan, editor

This book seeks to further unravel the working experiences of Irish women in the period from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, 1841–1921

Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ

This book re-evaluates the career of the man described shortly after his death as 'the greatest archbishop of Dublin since St Laurence O'Toole'. Walsh was endow…

A catalogue of the maps of the estates of the Archbishops of Dublin, 1654–1850

Raymond Refaussé & Mary Clark

The manuscript maps of the estates of the archbishops of Dublin are rare survivals for most of the Church of Ireland's cartographical collections were destroyed…

Ireland in the nineteenth century

Regional identity

Leon Litvack & Glenn Hooper, editors

This fourth volume in a series focusing on 19th-century Ireland provides multi-disciplinary, as well as interdisciplinary, observations on how the concept of 'r…

Politics, interdenominational relations and education in the public ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786–1834

Thomas McGrath

Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L) is regarded by many as the outstanding Irish bishop of the nineteenth century. This new book and its companio…