Presents a comprehensive survey of Ireland's industrial archaeology. Divided into five main sections, the subject is detailed in nineteen chapters, each dealing with a major industrial activity, its t
Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork (1566-1643), ranks among the most famous and infamous figures in the history of early modern Ireland and the wider English Atlantic world. The archetypal crooked land
At the same time that England was sending colonists to the New World it was also expanding immigration to its oldest colony, Ireland. This study of the plantations established from 1550-1700 grew out
Robert Day was one of the most important antiquarians of his day. He was President of the Cork Cuverian Society and its successor, the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, from 1894 to his deat