Nathaniel Colgan, 1851–1919

'Modest and civil people'

Religion and society in medieval Galway

Rachel Moss and Cólman Ó Clabaigh OSB

The town of Galway occupied a unique situation in medieval Ireland. Conspicuously English in its religious and political allegiances, it existed in an overwhelm…

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

Suzanne M. Pegley

This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it…

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

Regina Donlon

On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small villa…

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660–1740

Vandra Costello

This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand …

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’ as Séamus Ennis called her, was probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of her time. Collecto…

Early modern Duhallow, c.1534-1641

The crisis, decline and fall of Irish lordship

David Heffernan

In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the…

Nursing and midwifery in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882–1922

Lisa McGeeney

This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borri…