"Reading is for the improvement of the understanding," wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It underpinned t
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
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 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
Fear: Aspects of an emotion examines the effect of fear on the human experience and the ways in which its manifestation has shaped the creative and social imagination. Contents include: Frank Furedi (
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
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
"We heartily and strongly recommend this splendid volume. It is just what so many have been waiting for." Homiletic & Pastoral Review"A superb volume for adult Bible study ...most helpful, enlighteni
"We heartily and strongly recommend this splendid volume. It is just what so many have been waiting for." Homiletic & Pastoral Review"A superb volume for adult Bible study ...most helpful, enlighteni
Editor Thompson (research and humanities, St. Patrick's College, Ireland) and 10 co-contributors offer a collection of essays on the role of imagination in the creative process, which are based on the
As the 400th anniversary of the official Plantation of Ulster approaches, the University of Ulster and the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies is planning a series of volumes, of which this is one. Seve
The Tholsell Court was established for the settlement of small debts, with the [Lord] Mayor and Sheriffs of Dublin presiding. The surviving records, held in Dublin City Library & Archive, range from t
This book, the 9th volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series, collects 15 essays on various aspects of musical life in Ireland in the 19th century, including sacred and secular musical life in variou
This study examines the violent world of north Cork during the Rockite disturbances of the early 1820s. Agrarian gangs attempted to regulate rural society, threatening or attacking those who ignored t
In the early 1800s, a fruitless pursuit of coal on the Shirley estate in south Monaghan led to the discovery and the intermittent exploitation of gypsum on the estate lands. In portraying the inter-re
Professor Gerard Gillen celebrates his 75th birthday on August 16, 2017. In this volume, friends and colleagues of the esteemed professor honor his work with a collection of essays reflecting the stel
Originally published in 1715, Sarah Butler's Irish Tales is a Jacobite reading of early Irish history, setting the love story of Princess Dooneflaith and Prince Murchoe (son of Irish High King Brian B
Leading medieval scholars discuss the impact of English imperialism and the ways in which English and wider European cultural norms were transmitted outwards towards Ireland, Scotland and Wales from t
