16th/17th-century history

Toleration and religious identity

The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland

Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, editors

The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1598, established an uneasy truce between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in France, ushering in an era of religious pluralis…

Irish villages

Studies in local history

Karina Holton, Brian Ó Daláigh & Liam Clare, editors

This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution in Irish villages from the local perspective. These essays contrast and compa…

War, politics and the Irish of Leinster, 1156–1606

Emmett O'Byrne

Until now there has been no linear political study of the Irish of Leinster from the death of Toirdhealbhach O’Connor in 1156 to the establishment, in 1606, of …

Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish context, 1688–1729

Christopher Fauske editor

William King, archbishop of Dublin, was one of the most influential ecclesiastical and political figures of his day – a cleric, theologian and statesman whose s…

Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602–1820

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594–1603, marked a turning point in Irish history. However, although the political power of th…

Taking sides?

Colonial and confessional menalités in early modern Ireland

Vincent Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann, edtiors

This volume in honour of Professor Karl Bottigheimer examines the impact of the dramatic shifts in culture, society and politics on people in Ireland in the ear…

The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

All sorts and conditions

Raymond Gillespie & W.G. Neely, editors

Religion has always been central to an understanding of the Irish past and the experience of the Church of Ireland, as the established church before 1870, has e…

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 …

The Stuart Kingdoms in the seventeenth century

Allan Macinnes & Jane Ohlmeyer, editors

The ‘British Problem’ has come to dominate the historiographical agenda of the three kingdoms in the seventeenth century. This volume challenges traditional int…

Irish fairs and markets

Studies in local history

Denis A. Cronin, Jim Gilligan & Karina Holton, editors

This book is the first major study of buying and selling at local level in Ireland. The contributors analyse different aspects of the exchange and sale of goods…

The sieges of Derry

William Kelly, editor

Few events in Irish history have generated such an output of writing, reaction and controversy as the siege of Derry in 1689. In fact, the events of those month…

Women and paid work in Ireland, 1500–1930

Bernadette Whelan, editor

This book seeks to further unravel the working experiences of Irish women in the period from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries.