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World War I and nationalist politics in County Louth, 1914–1920

World War I and nationalist politics in County Louth, 1914–1920

Donal Hall

This study is an exposition of the experience of war and revolution in one rural county in Ireland. The origins of the 1914 split in nationalism are traced to t…
The Fishery of Arklow, 1800–1950

The Fishery of Arklow, 1800–1950

Jim Rees

Surprisingly few Irish coastal communities have looked to the sea for their economic well-being. Arklow, Co. Wicklow was one of those exceptions. In 1836 it was…
Ireland, 1916–2016

Ireland, 1916–2016

The promise and challenge of national sovereignty (Dóchas agus dúshlán na ceannasachta náisiúnta)

Tom Boylan, Nicholas Canny & Mary Harris, editors

In this conference volume six distinguished scholars of Irish birth or descent – Philip Pettit, Roy Foster, Kevin O’Rourke, Clair Wills, Louise Richardson and B…
Family histories of the Irish Revolution

Family histories of the Irish Revolution

Ciara Boylan, Sarah-Anne Buckley and Pat Dolan, editors

Some of the stories from current and retired staff at NUI Galway have been buried for generations, and their publication sheds new light on the complex politics…
The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork

David Edwards & Colin Rynne, editors

Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566–1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atl…
Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Úna Ni Bhromeil & Glenn Hooper

In the unsettled political and social context of nineteenth-century Ireland the land provides a space for negotiation - of identity, of nationality, of ownershi…
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The Mount Callan Garland

The Mount Callan Garland

Songs from the repertoire of Tom Lenihan, Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, County Clare

Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with music transcriptions by Marian Deasy

Tom Lenihan of Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare (1905–1990), was a farmer. Though English is the language of his area, it is deeply coloured by Irish idiom…
Vindicating Dublin

Vindicating Dublin

The story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924

Aodh Quinlivan

The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation (the city's municipal government) is brought to light in this absorbing study whic…
Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

Toby Barnard and Bridget McCormack, editors

Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, th…