An Ulster slave-owner in the revolutionary Atlantic

Society and administration in Ulster's plantation towns

Brendan Scott, editor

Although much has been written on the Ulster Plantation, no sustained work on its urban aspects has been undertaken since the research of Robert Hunter a genera…

Crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Belfast

The story of John Linn

Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of Irish men and woman were transported as convicts to Britain’s penal colonies in Australia. Few, ho…

An Irishman’s life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787–90

The letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane

Mark S. Quintanilla

This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent.

From Ballylon…

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Religion, politics and identity

Mark G. Spencer & David A. Wilson, editors

In this collection of essays American and Canadian historians explore the changing transatlantic character of the Ulster Presbyterianism in the eighteenth and n…

Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, c.1573–6

David Heffernan

Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to coloniz…

Atlantic gateway

The port and city of Londonderry since 1700

Robert Gavin, William P. Kelly & Dolores O'Reilly

This study takes a fresh look at the economic role of North West Ireland and the port and city of Derry. It sees the region as prospering from exchanges of labo…

The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45

A society in transition

Daragh Curran

In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the col…