Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…

The Vestry Records of the Parish of St Audoen, Dublin, 1636–1702

Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha, editor

St Audoen’s, on a prominent site in Cornmarket, is one of the most distinctive churches in the city of Dublin. A medieval foundation dedicated to the seventh ce…

The Vestry Records of the Parishes of St Catherine and St James, Dublin, 1657–1692

Raymond Gillespie, editor

This volume provides a vivid picture of life in the suburbs of seventeenth-century Dublin. Situated as they were in the Liberties area of the city, outside the …

Brought to book

Print in Ireland, 1680–1784

Toby Barnard

Brought to book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral an…

A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

Toby Barnard

In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being expl…

Vindicating Dublin

The story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924

Aodh Quinlivan

The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation (the city's municipal government) is brought to light in this absorbing study whic…