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The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605–1769

The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605–1769

Patricia O'Connell

The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605–1769 covers the history of this important college with its associations with the early Irish exiles who came i…
The Irish dissenting tradition, 1650–1750
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The Irish dissenting tradition, 1650–1750

Kevin Herlihy, editor

This collection of essays presents new and important historical scholarship in a much-neglected area of Irish social and ecclesiastical history. At times Protes…
The Irish political system, 1740–1765

The Irish political system, 1740–1765

The golden age of undertakers?

Eoin Magennis

The book provides a chronology of political developments in Ireland from the late 1740s to the late 1760s with an emphasis on the Irish parliament, its manageme…
The Kimmage garrison, 1916

The Kimmage garrison, 1916

Making billy-can bombs at Larkfield

Ann Matthews

The Kimmage Garrison in Dublin was comprised of approximately ninety men, the majority of whom were members of the Irish Volunteers in Scotland and England. The…
The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640–80

The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640–80

The landed interests, political ideologies and military campaign of the north-west Ulster settlers

Kevin McKenny

This book deals with the landed interests, political ideologies and military campaigns of the north-west Ulster settlers in Ireland between 1640 and c.1685.The …
The languages of Ireland
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The languages of Ireland

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Michael Cronin, editors

For over a thousand years Ireland has been a host to a surprising variety of languages and cultures. Every area of Irish life and cultural expression has been i…
The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

Revised edition

James Lydon

The lordship of Ireland in the middle ages was vested in the English crown by the famous grant of Pope Adrian IV in 1155, resulting in the invasion of 1169. Thi…
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 …
The murders at Wildgoose Lodge

The murders at Wildgoose Lodge

Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-Famine Ireland

Terence Dooley

On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote part of County Louth, known locally as Wildgoose Lodge.…
The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

A Protestant community, 1879–1927

Leigh-Ann Coffey

In late March 1922, a group of armed men forcibly evicted two protestant farmers from their homes at Luggacurran, County Laois. The evictions marked the beginni…