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Raymond Gillespie
This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change on a national basis, from a confessional perspective…
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This book offers a wealth of information about the rebuilding of the cathedral, as well as much matter of a more everyday sort regarding the daily life and commerce of…
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This is the earliest chapter act book in Ireland and contains material not only on the history of the cathedral but for charting the progress of the Reformation in Dublin.
The importance of parish records for the reconstruction of many aspects of past societies is becoming clear from research in other countries. Irish parochial records, however, have not survived well…
This volume provides a vivid picture of life in the suburbs of 17th-century Dublin. Situated, as they were in the Liberties area of the city, outside the control of the…
Preface; Note on text; Abbreviations; 1. The social meaning of print; Part one; 2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture; 3. The coming of the book…
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An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland
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Studies one of the collections of medieval manuscripts in Ireland. This work reflects the changing religious, social, cultural and intellectual concerns of the world. It makes a significant contribution to…
This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies to…
Brendan Scott
This book charts the plantation town of Belturbet from its inception in the early seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century.
Denis Casey
This book examines the land-transaction records of Tigernan Ua Ruairc , the famous king of Breifne as recorded in the Book of Kells.
Sponsored by the Church of Ireland Historical Society, 12 chapters on the everyday religious experience of the members of the Church through its history are presented by Gillespie (history, National…
Charts the impact of print and publishing in shaping the ideas that formed modern Ireland. Here, ten leading scholars from a variety of backgrounds examine how the production, circulation and…
Emma Lyons
Through an examination of estate records, this case study provides an insight into the adaption and survival of a Catholic-owned estate during two tumultuous periods in Irish history.
A collection of essays detailing Belfast’s past from port to commercial centre, textile town to a centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted chameleon-like, to changing circumstances.
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Outlining the impact of the rise of print in early modern Ireland in a series of essays, this volume charts the development of a print culture in Ireland and the…
Papers from a conference held in NUI Maynooth in September 2007.
In this book, 13 distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocracy and the tenantry of provincial…
Raymond Gillespie,Roibeard O. Gallachoir
How did one maintain social order in a rapidly changing town? What did it mean to be part of the religious establishment in a town where the Church of Ireland…
Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
This study reconstructs John Linn, an infamous Irish criminal, in detail and places him in context; shedding light on the society he inhabited, the institutions tasked with managing him and…
Narcissus Marsh
Narcissus Marsh was an English clergyman and later Bishop of Armagh. Marsh’s recollections reveal his struggle against worldly temptations and his preoccupation with the defence of learning in the anarchic…
Might there not be some justification in terrorists targeting certain victims but not others? In this volume a group of distinguished moral and social thinkers address the urgent problem of…
In this collectionof essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a varietyof different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell’s involvement with Ireland, inparticular his military campaign of 1649-1650.
This volume resituates power where it was exercised on a daily basis and in doing so opens fascinating windows into past worlds in pre-modern Ireland.
In this collectionof essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a varietyof different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell's involvement with Ireland, inparticular his military campaign of 1649-1650.
Part of the Four Courts Press Ulster & Scotland Series , this collection of essays studies Scottish settlement in Ulster and its longer-term impact in the post-Plantation years.
This comparative study of the three Irish wars of the seventeenth-century yields important new insights into continuity and contingency. The volume comprises ten thematic essays on the political context, the…
