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John Skelton

John Skelton

The career of an early Tudor poet

John Scattergood

John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…
John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church

John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church

Mark S. Sweetnam

John Donne has never seemed a simple figure. For his contemporaries, the poet and preacher, the courtier-turned-convert-turned-celebrity churchman defied defini…
Landgartha: a tragie-comedy

Landgartha: a tragie-comedy

By Henry Burnell

Deana Rankin editor

Landgartha (1641), first performed in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day 1640, was the last play produced before political unrest forced the closure of Dublin’s only th…
The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45
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The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45

A society in transition

Daragh Curran

In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the col…
The Irish land agent, 1830–60

The Irish land agent, 1830–60

The case of King's County

Ciarán Reilly

Land agents have been stereotypically represented in Irish history as alien, capricious and in general the tormentors of the tenantry. However, to date, no defi…
Medieval Fore, County Westmeath

Medieval Fore, County Westmeath

Rory Masterson

In the history of Norman monasteries founded in Ireland, the Benedictine priory of Fore stands apart. While many foundations were independent entities and other…
Derry Labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 1
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Derry Labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 1

New unionism and old, 1889–1906

Emmet O'Connor

Derry was ‘a prosperous town’ in 1905, according to the Board of Trade. Since 1851, its population had almost doubled, and it had acquired a university college,…
The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork

The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork

Neil Cronin

In 1820, the surgical management of children with bladder stones in the South Infirmary was criticised by a prominent Cork surgeon, giving rise to a furious and…
Struggle and strife on a Mayo estate, 1833–1903

Struggle and strife on a Mayo estate, 1833–1903

The Nolans of Logboy and their tenants

Michael Kelly

This book reveals how landlord and tenants on a Mayo estate responded to a series of crises during the Victorian era, dominated by the Famine and the Land War. …