This study investigates the career of Thomas Bermingham, a professional land agent who was widely known in his day for his management of the Clonbrock estates in east Galway and Roscommon between 1827
How did one nineteenth-century memorial to a seventeenth-century figure come to be so significant in the city of Derry that it would generate conflict for nearly two hundred years? How has the struggl
This book examines the effects of the Great Famine on the people of Kinsale and surrounding countryside. It shows how famine, death and disease took its toll on one class in particular - the poor. In
The Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tristernagh played an important role in the Anglo-Norman colonisation of Meath. A fourteenth-century register allows us map the extent of its lands in the midd
This book relates the remarkable story of the Parnell split in Westmeath and argues that it was part of a wider revolt by a section of the Catholic middle class against the dominant role of the church
In the time period covered by this study, progressive legislation in the areas of land purchase, local government and education, facilitated the movement into local politics of a more advanced nationa
For centuries, Cork's Shawlies survived by trading on public streets. Then, in 1926, the Irish Free State government introduced the Street Trading act, insisting it was fair legislation needed to regu
This book explores the landscape of Stradbally Hall from the perspective of four groups, with varying positions and agendas within eighteenth-century society - landlords, tenants, cartographers and vi
Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book traces its rise, fall, and rise again in the early twentieth century when it was impressively, rest
Kerry's coastal location within the north-western corner of the north Atlantic positioned it strategically within a wider sphere of unparalleled discovery, migration and demographic upheaval, trade an
This study reconstitutes a tenement community living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 census as its main primary source. The census enables these tenement dwe
This is the first in-depth study of the oldest surviving 'beginner's guide' to the Irish language. Christopher Nugent, baron of Delvin, presented Queen Elizabeth I with an Irish language primer in 156
Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming "this is the basest wine I have ever tasted"? Such issues
At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial school at Kinsale, on the south coast of the county. They were committed on the grounds that they were
Following on from volume 1 on new unionism and old (1889-1906), volume 2 reviews the impact of Larkinism and syndicalism on Derry. After impressive progress in the 19th century, Derry's industrial gro
This book investigates crime and sentencing at petty sessions, quarter sessions, and assizes in Kilkenny city in 1845. It begins with an examination of life in the city in the period immediately prior
This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500 acre estate near Loughrea in Ireland's east county Galway. The study offers, in a microcosm, a re
The Reverend Thomas Goff (1772-1844) was a landlord and Church of Ireland minister in early 19th-century Ireland. He kept a personal diary for almost 50 years, where he recorded an unfiltered account
While much historical research has been invested in Ireland's major cities, remarkably little attention has been given to the study of less important boroughs founded by tenants of the great lords. Wh
This book looks at life in Nenagh during the tumultuous years from 1914 to 1921. It looks at the sudden rise of the National Volunteers in Nenagh - and their equally sudden collapse - and it explores
This book examines the changing lives of the middle class in one small Irish town in the early 19th-century. In the years before the Famine, the mail coach traveling between Dublin and Cork passed thr
This volume covers the growth and prosperity of Derry, Ireland in the latter nineteenth century. O'Conner looks at the people who labored in the shirt factories, the coach works, the iron foundries, s
In the history of Norman monasteries founded in Ireland, the Benedictine priory of Fore stands apart. While many foundations were independent entities and others were cells or priories of English foun
This book investigates the world of Charles Tisdall, a Co. Meath landlord and gentleman, during the mid-18th century. It begins with Tisdall's coming into his inheritance during the most unfavorable c
In Ireland, in 1820, the surgical management of children with bladder stones in the South Infirmary was criticized by a prominent Cork surgeon, giving rise to a furious and bitter dispute. This book c
The rebellion of 1916 transformed Irish nationalist politics. However, outside of Dublin, there were only a handful of other outbreaks. One of these was at Ashbourne, Co. Meath and was organized by Vo
This short book presents a picture of Portmarnock, County Dublin, as an important local center for the manufacture of brick and terracotta during the Victorian period. The outstanding material product
Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family has had a residence at Borris for approximately 900 years. Walter
Some of the larger issues in Irish rural society in the early 20th century were played out in Sligo County. There the Ranch War, centering on potential redistribution of grazing land, came to a head i
Like many powerful people, the actions of William Stuart Trench in managing the Digby estate are mixed, with large improvements to the architecture and landscape coupled with illegal leveling of peopl
