This book is an introductory guide for students and researchers in the history of Irish education from 1780–1922. The nineteenth century saw the foundation of t…
This book is intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of travellers’ accounts as source-material. It consists of a discursive introduction, annotations…
This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical records in Latin, French, o…
Historians have been slow to recognize photographs as important primary sources for research and it is only in recent years that photographs are being taken ser…
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…
This book highlights the principal themes and elements in the making of the landscape, and the sources which can assist historians and historical geographers in…
This book focuses on how local historians can source and use the various censuses and universal taxation returns and a variety of other sources of the pre-censu…
When the Irish Public Record Office was destroyed by fire in 1922 one of the most important collections to be lost was the Christ Church deeds, which had been d…
As we approach the 400th anniversary of the official Plantation of Ulster, this volume seeks to make an important historiographical contribution to that event. …
In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of the birth of Robert Burns, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine t…
