16th/17th-century history

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.

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…

Archbishop William King, 1650–1729 and the constitution in church and state

Philip O'Regan

Born in Antrim of Scottish Presbyterian parents, William King (1650–1729) rose, following his conversion to Anglicanism, to become one of the principal ecclesia…

Jacobite Ireland

J.G. Simms

This detailed study traces the course of a critical period of Irish history: from the accession of James II to the surrender of Limerick, which made William of …

Church and society in County Kildare, c.1480–1547

Mary Ann Lyons

This book investigates the socio-economic, ecclesiastical and cultural world of Garret Mor and Garret Oge Fitzgerald, 8th and 9th earls of Kildare. A profile of…

Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541–1641

Hiram Morgan

This collection of essays arising out of a seminar organized by the Folger Library, Washington, provides an in-depth analysis of the period's writings. It looks…

Kingdoms united?

Great Britain and Ireland since 1500

S.J. Connolly

In recent years there has been growing interest in the contrasts and parallels between the development of Ireland and that of its closest neighbours: England, S…

Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650–1800

Kevin Herlihy, editor

The fourth book in this series on Irish Protestant dissent studies aspects of preaching and teaching. Professor David Hall sets the theme in the wider context o…

The registers of Christ Church Cathedral

Raymond Refaussé & Colm Lennon, editors

Among the most important of modern documents associated with Christ Church Cathedral are the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials which stretch from 171…

Belfast merchant families in the seventeenth century

Jean Agnew

With the dramatic increase in trade witnessed in Belfast during the seventeenth century, large numbers of Scottish families were attracted by the town's economi…

Cogan's 'History of the diocese of Meath'

Alfred P. Smyth, editor

A reissue of this major study of the Diocese from the earliest times to the beginnings of the nineteenth century. Published in 1862, much of the original source…

The Irish dissenting tradition, 1650–1750

Kevin Herlihy, editor

This collection of essays presents new and important historical scholarship in a much-neglected area of Irish social and ecclesiastical history. At times Protes…