Irish migration has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with many studies examining the impact – physical, psychological and cultural – on emigran…
This book deals with United States policy towards Ireland between 1913 and 1929. Focusing on Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, it examines the…
Supported by documents, many of which were not readily available or have never been published before, this book studies images of the ‘Irish traditional storyte…
Michael Davitt (1846–1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the Land War of 1879–82. However, the end…
The importance of parish records for the reconstruction of many aspects of past societies is becoming clear from research in other countries. Irish parochial re…
This volume provides a vivid picture of life in the suburbs of seventeenth-century Dublin. Situated as they were in the Liberties area of the city, outside the …
In 1854 four of the major powers in Europe, Britain, France, Turkey and Russia became embroiled in a devastating and costly war. While hostilities began in Turk…
‘Some men see things as they are and say “why?”; I dream things that never were and say “why not?”. These words of George Bernard Shaw might well have been th…
Much has been written about the politics and government of nineteenth century Ireland at a national level. Yet the point at which government touched the lives o…
This book is the first major study of buying and selling at local level in Ireland. The contributors analyse different aspects of the exchange and sale of goods…
