In Ireland, the period of 1910 to 1923 was one of dramatic change: change of governments, of states, of political attitudes, and in day-to-day life. It is unmatched as a turbulent period in national h
In Irish history, marriage was of huge significance to women and men for social, emotional, and economic reasons. Married women had greater status than unmarried women. The most acceptable way to form
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
