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The Goldsmiths of Dublin

The Goldsmiths of Dublin

Six centuries of achievement

Douglas Bennett

The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the…
The Mansion House Fund 1880

The Mansion House Fund 1880

David O’Regan, editor

The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout the country and a r…
Winning the Vote for Women

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

Louise Ryan

The campaign for women’s votes in Ireland coincided with the nationalist movement, the First World War, the rise of the trade union movement, the cultural reviv…
The Irish Revenue Police

The Irish Revenue Police

A short history and genealogical guide to the 'Poteen Hussars'

Jim Herlihy

In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to …
The Redmonds and Waterford

The Redmonds and Waterford

A political dynasty 1891–1952

Pat McCarthy

For sixty years the Redmonds – John, his son William Archer and his daughter-in-law Bridget – dominated the politics of Waterford city. From 1891 to 1922 a Redm…
Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

Karina Holton

This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century …
Medieval Welsh Poems

Medieval Welsh Poems

Joseph P. Clancy

This anthology of Welsh poems from c.575 to c.1525 offers the general reader the most substantial collection of medieval Welsh verse yet rendered into English, …
Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment

Keith Manley

'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early…
The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830–65

The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830–65

Frances McGee

Between 1830 and 1864, every piece of property in Ireland was valued, from houses on tiny plots of land to the great landed estates. The work of valuation creat…
Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane & Terje Spurkland, editors

Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard material such as stone, metal and wood. As a discipline, it is often considered to be part of the literary sources writ…