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This book, commissioned as an action of the Dublin City Heritage Plan, opens with an historical introduction to eighteenth and nineteenth century banking, begin…
This lavishly illustrated volume is published to celebrate the tercentenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the world-famous Old Library in May 1712. T…
John Foster was the last (1785–1800) speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the most important opponent of the Act of Union which extinguished both his offic…
In 1886 the earl of Clanricarde evicted the tenants of Woodford on his east Galway estate. The ramifications of his actions echoed through Ireland in the late n…
Cases of breach of promise to marry were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided …
Castletown, near Celbridge in Co. Kildare, was the home of the Right Honourable Thomas Conolly and his wife Lady Louisa Augusta (née Lennox). As a well-connecte…
This book traces the economic, social and cultural history of Ireland from the 1870s to 1914, when the prospect of partition moved from being almost unthinkable…
This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stok…
Nestled between Fanad and Inishowen peninsulas on Ireland’s most northern coast, is Lough Swilly, one of the largest of Ireland’s sea loughs. Long noted for its…
From the mid-nineteenth century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporar…
Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
