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Sending out Ireland's poor

Sending out Ireland's poor

Assisted emigration to North America in the nineteenth-century

Gerard Moran

Between 1800 and 1914 over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends…
The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

Ambrose Macaulay

Catholics in Ireland and England campaigning for relief from the penal laws, and later, for emancipation, were obliged to deal with the Holy See and the governm…
Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd

James Kelly

Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early …
Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland

Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland

Mark O'Brien & Felix M. Larkin editors

This book explores the links between Irish periodical journals of the twentieth century and journalism. From the early 1900s onwards, journals advocating an Iri…
Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival

Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival

Catherine Morris

'A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectu…
The Morpeth Roll

The Morpeth Roll

Ireland identified in 1841

Christopher Ridgway, editor

In 1841, on stepping down as chief secretary, George Howard, Lord Morpeth, received a grand farewell testimonial from the people of Ireland. This took the form …
A paper landscape

A paper landscape

The Ordnance Survey in nineteenth-century Ireland

J.H. Andrews

For many years after its foundation in 1791, the Ordnance Survey was mainly concerned with making small scale military maps of England. The department had no de…
The making of the eighteenth-century Irish constitution

The making of the eighteenth-century Irish constitution

Government, parliament and the revenue, 1692–1714

Charles Ivar McGrath

The Glorious Revolution and the Irish War of 1689–91 fundamentally altered the course of Irish constitutional and political history. However, primarily because …
Community in early modern Ireland

Community in early modern Ireland

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin & Robert Armstrong editors

The theme of 'community' has proved a focus of considerable interest in recent historiography, but has been neglected in its application to Ireland. Here the qu…
The big houses and landed estates of Ireland

The big houses and landed estates of Ireland

A research guide

Terence Dooley

This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with prac…