This book investigates how the anti-grazing agitation known as the Ranch War, 1906–9, operated at local level in Co. Sligo by focusing on the activities of the …
Professor Cullen’s writing over a long career has had a profound effect on the interpretation of Irish history. It has also been characterized by an extended ch…
This book compares and contrasts key developments in two neighbouring lordships in counties Galway and Clare, investigating how and why the impact of central go…
This book set out to establish what the true ‘realities’ were on the Digby estate in King’s County from 1857 to 1871, under the management of William Steuart Tr…
This is the second volume of Maynooth Aquinas Lectures. The annual series was founded by the late Professor James McEvoy in 1995. Its aim is to examine the thou…
Using a wide array of sources and interviews, Michael Farry has produced a balanced, comprehensive and absorbing study of county Sligo from 1912 when the Irish …
At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell, Co. Galway. Intense pol…
More women convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land from Ireland in 1849 than any other year. This is the story of several women from Kildare who made the…
The University of Limerick was the first new university created since the foundation of the state. Its emergence was the result of a long and determined local c…
Between 1169 and around 1240, large parts of Ireland were occupied by members of an Anglo-Norman upper class, which had already advanced into Wales and which wa…
