18th-century history

The diary of Nicholas Peacock, 1740–51

The worlds of a County Limerick farmer and agent

Marie-Louise Legg

Nicholas Peacock of Kilmoreen, near Adare, Co. Limerick, from 1740 to 1751 kept a detailed account book and diary of his life and work as a small farmer and the…

The Irish Lottery, 1780–1801

Rowena Dudley

Lotteries were a well-established part of 18th-century life when, in 1780, the Irish government initiated the first state-controlled lottery to raise much-neede…

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…

Ireland and Scotland

Culture and society, 1700–2000

Liam McIlvanney & Ray Ryan, editors

Recent years have seen the consolidation of a new field of academic inquiry: Irish-Scottish Studies. This specially commissioned volume is the most comprehensiv…

Ulster-New Zealand migration and cultural transfers

Brad Patterson

This collection throws new light on migration patterns, and identifies who the Ulster settlers were, probing the contributions they made to New Zealand society.…

Our good health

A history of Dublin's water and drainage

Michael Corcoran

Dublin had a supply of piped water since the 13th century and a drainage service since the late 18th century. Their history is related against the backdrop of t…

Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650–1850

Michael Brown, Charles I. McGrath & Thomas P. Power, editors

Conversion was a highly controversial aspect of aspect of religious life in early modern Ireland, yet it remains under investigated by modern scholarship. This …

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 Liberty and Ormond boys

Factional riots in eighteenth-century Dublin

James Kelly

This study of factional disorder sets the Liberty and Ormond Boys in their contemporary context. The conditions necessary to enable factions to develop and flou…

Ulster and Scotland, 1600–2000

History, language and identity

William P. Kelly & John R. Young, editors

The first volume in the series of Ulster-Scots history deals with many aspects of life, including social and economical.

Contributors: John R. Young (U. Strath…

Revolutionary Dublin, 1795–1801

The letters of Francis Higgins to Dublin Castle

Thomas Bartlett

This study seeks to assess the role of informers in the 1790s in Ireland, and it does so in two ways. First, it offers a detailed assessment of the dozen or so …

Maps and Map-Making in Local History

Jacinta Prunty

This book aims to introduce the local history practitioner to the world of maps – the special character (and appeal) of maps as an historical source, why they a…