This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashion…
While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latt…
The land question had a crucial formative influence on Mayo politics in the decades before the First World War and this book shows the part played by many promi…
Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in ta…
This book is the first full-length assessment of the history of soccer in Dublin and the game’s role within society in the city. It examines the sport's growth …
On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small villa…
Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dubli…
This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borri…
In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in …
This book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O’Conor, the O‘Conor Don (1838–1906), one of the most prominent Catholic landlords and Liberal MPs of his generatio…
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independen…
Marking the 2020 centenary of his death, this book explores the judicial legacy of chief baron Christopher Palles, the last chief baron of the Court of Excheque…
