Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, 1634-80

A Privileged Witness

Daniel D. Jordan

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, was a widely recognised hero of his time and his life story directly reflects the turbulent nature of seventeenth-century British…

Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, 1190–1610

Custom and conflict in a baronial town

Adrian Empey

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series.

Our knowledge of Anglo-Norman Ireland is derived from a wide spectrum of written records: charters, lega…

The Siege of Londonderry

Piers Wauchope

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that floo…

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of p…

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archa…

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explo…

Edmund Sexten Pery

The politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland

David A. Fleming

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s an…