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Nathaniel Clements

Nathaniel Clements

Government and the governing elite in Ireland, 1725–75

Anthony Malcomson

Nathaniel Clements (1705–77), treasury official, politician, Dublin property developer, amateur architect, failed banker and leader of fashion, was the fifth so…
The Irish Annals

The Irish Annals

Their genesis, evolution and history

D.P. Mc Carthy

Collectively the Irish annals represent a substantial and important source for the history and culture of Ireland. These texts provide the primary witness for m…
The Shaws of Terenure

The Shaws of Terenure

A nineteenth-century Dublin merchant family

Tony Mc Carthy

This book traces the emergence of a protestant middle class family in late eighteenth century Dublin. From relative obscurity, in just three generations, the Sh…
'The academy of warre': military affairs in Ireland, 1600 to 1800

'The academy of warre': military affairs in Ireland, 1600 to 1800

The O'Donnell Lecture 2002

Thomas Bartlett

Published by the National University of Ireland.

Charles James O’Donnell, born 1850, provided a bequest in 1935 to fund an annual lecture in the National Unive…
Léann Lámhscríbhinní Lobháin

Léann Lámhscríbhinní Lobháin

The Louvain Manuscript Heritage

Pádraig A. Breatnach, Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, editors

Published by the National University of Ireland.

The Irish Franciscan College of St Anthony of Padua at Louvain was founded in 1606/7. The Spanish King, Philip…
Medieval alliterative poetry

Medieval alliterative poetry

Essays in honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre

John A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan, editors

This collection of essays celebrates Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre for his scholarly work in late medieval English literature, in particular for his contribu…
South Tipperary, 1570–1841

South Tipperary, 1570–1841

Religion, land and rivalry

David J. Butler

This study explores the interaction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities of South Tipperary from their earliest divergence c.1570 to the culmin…
Oral and print cultures in Ireland, 1600–1900
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Oral and print cultures in Ireland, 1600–1900

Marc Caball & Andrew Carpenter, editors

On the whole, surprisingly little work has been done on how the oral, the manuscript and the printed interacted with each other in Ireland between 1600 and 1900…
Taking sides?

Taking sides?

Colonial and confessional menalités in early modern Ireland

Vincent Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann, edtiors

This volume in honour of Professor Karl Bottigheimer examines the impact of the dramatic shifts in culture, society and politics on people in Ireland in the ear…
Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

Texts and contexts

Jason Harris & Kathleen Cawsey, editors

Nine case studies of cultural or textual transformation in the medieval period are presented here. Written by some of Ireland's leading young medievalists, thes…