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Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

Seán Byrne

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated b…
Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46

Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46

Gerard Hanley

This book assesses the position of workers, trade unionism and labour relations from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment of the Labour C…
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

Patrick Little

The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory study of the Church of …
Visualizing the Celtic Revival

Visualizing the Celtic Revival

The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe

Róisín Kennedy

This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural…
The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
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The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Finnian O'Cionnaith

Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relation…
The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland

The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland

A Reader

Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors

This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflec…
The woods of Ireland

The woods of Ireland

A history, 700–1800

Nigel Everett

The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this int…
The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

Terence Dooley

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…
Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo
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Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…
Children, childhood and Irish society

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…