This study looks at the Ribbon secret society in Sligo town and county in the early nineteenth century. Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county…
This study of factional disorder sets the Liberty and Ormond Boys in their contemporary context. The conditions necessary to enable factions to develop and flou…
Sir Richard Musgrave, Bart. (1746–1818) is properly best known as the author of Memoirs of the various rebellions in Ireland – the seminal history of the 1798 R…
Propagandist, popular politician, conservative reactionary, Edward Newenham excited sharply different responses during his lifetime. He was encouraged by his ad…
This collection of thirteen essays, penned by an array of leading scholars in the field, is the first full-length critical study of the Belfast poet and prose w…
Ireland’s Second World War frontline troops were the men of the Coast Watching Service. From 1939–45 they maintained a continuous watch along the Irish shorelin…
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the cas…
The author presents from stones, mosaics, walls, brasses, inscribed artefacts, colophons etc. scores of compositions from twenty centuries, illustrating the tho…
The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the Plantation of Ulster. This book explores the concept of plantation as a model for explaining change in cultura…
This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained an…
