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Gladstone: Ireland and beyond

Gladstone: Ireland and beyond

Mary E. Daly & K. Theodore Hoppen, editors

This book examines aspects of Gladstone’s relationship with Ireland, setting this in the context of the United Kingdom and Empire. It is based on papers given a…
The Nabob

The Nabob

A tale of ninety-eight

Andrew James. Notes and afterword by John Wilson Foster

A series of interconnected tales published in 1911 as Ninety-Eight and Sixty Years After. These vivid tales, set in Co. Antrim in 1798 and sixty years later, ar…
Revolutionary lawyers

Revolutionary lawyers

Sinn Féin and crown courts in Ireland and Britain, 1916–23

David Foxton

This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the Easter Rising and the Civi…
Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine

Robin Haines

Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government’s parsimonious respons…
Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

The case of County Roscommon

Michael Huggins

The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflic…
The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

The Irish Church and the Tudor reformations

Henry A. Jefferies

This book presents a new interpretation of the state of the Irish Church before the Tudor reformations. Part I shows that the Irish Church, far from being in de…
The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship

Douglas Kanter

Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…
Charles Maturin

Charles Maturin

Authorship, authenticity and the nation

Jim Kelly

Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland

James Kelly & Martyn J. Powell, editors

Clubs and societies emerge as a distinct feature of the Irish social landscape from the end of the seventeenth century. The most notable early organization was …
'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

'The Downfall of Hagan': Sligo Ribbonism in 1842

Jennifer Kelly

This study looks at the Ribbon secret society in Sligo town and county in the early nineteenth century. Comprising well over 3,000 members throughout the county…