The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order during the Famine Years

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…

Ulster-Scots Writing

An anthology

Frank Ferguson, editor

This anthology of Ulster-Scots writing charts the breadth and diversity of Scottish influences upon Ulster writing from the 17th century to the present day. For…

Revising Robert Burns and Ulster

Literature, religion and politics, c.1770–1920

Frank Ferguson & Andrew R. Holmes, editors

In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of the birth of Robert Burns, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine t…

The correspondence of Samuel Thomson (1766–1816)

Jennifer Orr, editor

During the Romantic period in the north of Ireland, a circle of bards were corresponding with one another, encouraging each other to pen verse, often united by …

Social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland

The case of County Roscommon

Michael Huggins

The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflic…

Fleeing from famine in Connemara

James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880s

Gerard Moran

Between 1882 and 1884, the English Quaker and philanthropist James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 people, mainly families, to emigrate from Connemara – paying …

Handloom weavers in Ulster's linen industry, 1815–1914

Kevin J. James

Kevin J. James examines linen handloom weavers as they encountered changes in the industry, and explores fluctuating definitions of men's and women's work in th…