Little, Brown Book Group, 2000. — 424 p. This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British...
Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006. — 300 p. The Pursuit of the Heiress is a new, greatly enlarged, and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as "a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy," which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has...
The History Press, 2008. — 320 p. This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine that resulted in the death of about one million people and was also largely responsible, in conjunction with British government policies, for one of the great international human migrations of British history — the mass exodus of some two million people from...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 288 p. This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the Irish nationalist youth organization Na Fianna Éireann and its contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909 – 23. Countess Constance Markievicz and Bulmer Hobson established Na Fianna Éireann, or the Irish National Boy Scouts, as an Irish nationalist antidote to...
Routledge, 2018. — 1546 p. The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically, and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five percent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease, and large-scale...
Routledge, 2008. — 318 p. This groundbreaking and controversial new study tells the story of two nations in Ireland; an Irish Catholic nation and a Protestant nation, emerging from a blood-stained century. This survey confronts the violence and enmity inherent in the consolidation of conquest. Lenihan contends that the overriding grand narrative of this period was one of...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 254 p. This study examines the Law Reports of Sir John Davies and litigation pleaded before the central Irish courts during the period in which Davies served in Ireland as solicitor-general (1603-1606) and attorney-general (1606-1619). The author's main concern is to explicate the legal and jurisprudential issues involved and to draw out...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 489 p. Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events — the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798 — and folkloric representations of those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland’s rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate...
Four Courts Press, 2011. — 268 p. This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stokes was responsible for the codification of much of Anglo-Indian law. He was also one of the greatest scholars that Ireland has ever produced, and throughout his life, he published...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 625 p. — ISBN: 9780674045774. During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced such well-known figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectually stagnant...
Gill and Macmillan, 1973. — 362 p. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Irish unionism for British and Irish politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The movement was supported almost exclusively by Irish Protestants who were of Anglo-Irish or Scotch-Irish descent and who comprised roughly one-quarter of the population of Ireland. It aimed to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 368 p. This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists, and writers in Ireland, Britain, and its empire imagined how self-government would work in Ireland after the...
Manchester University Press, 2010. — 193 p. Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and displaced Irish "savages" are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles. Richly illustrated, it displays how a...
Four Courts Press, 1997. — 104 p. The Siege of Derry (1688-1689) is the key political myth in Loyalist culture. This study looks at the Siege, reconstructing how the defense of Derry has been commemorated and interpreted over the last 300 years. Celebrated by historians, artists, poets, and preachers, re-enacted in anniversary demonstrations and parades, the Siege provides a...
Four Courts Press, 2004. — 468 p. This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in 1766. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jacobite poetry in its wider 'British' and European contexts and the inclusion of the Irish...
The Catholic University of America Press, 1988. — 362 p. Interesting study of the impact this career of Conservative British politician Arthur J. Balfour had on Ireland, especially during his years as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1902-1905, and Leader of the Opposition thereafter in the volatile years before the First World War in 1914. Balfour is better known as the author...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 340 p. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism, and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 352 p. What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late eighteenth centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this period and reassesses Ireland’s place in the British...
Harvard University Press, 2016 — 636 p. — ISBN: 9780674045774. During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced such well-known figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectually stagnant...
Routledge, 2019. — 372 p. — (Countries in the Early Modern World Series). Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 331 p. This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonization in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state’s consolidation of...
Peter Lang, 1987. — 322 p. The attempt to create a truly protestant church and people in Ireland in the early seventeenth century succeeded in only one respect: a reformed ministry was created, by attracting university-educated clergy, mainly from England and Scotland. But the very Protestantism of the church and its close links with the new English state prevented it from...
Four Courts Press, 1998. — 148 p. This book is based on papers originally presented at the fourth conference on Irish dissent held at Marsh's Library in Dublin, in 1997.
Clarendon Press, 1984. — 588 p. Detailed study of the political and social history of British Ireland during the 19th century with numerous footnoted sources. Chapters: The political community; Landlords, politics, and rural society; Priests and people; Political parties and their activities; Violence and its modes; Patterns of change and continuity.
Routledge, 1968. — 136 p. Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates...
Cork University Press, 1994. — 320 p. The advent of the Reformation in Ireland marked a break with the religious past, opening up new paths in religious thought and practice that still affect us today. This process began in May 1534 when Henry VIII ordered the Dublin government to ignore papal provisions and jurisdiction in Ireland; bishops then in office continued to be...
The American Philosophical Society, 1975. — 444 p. Trois périodes se dégagent la lecture de cet ouvrage abord de 1878-1884 la perte influence de la Curie romaine en Irlande due aux réticences elle manifes tait égard de ses problèmes politiques et socio-économiques et engagement accrudu clergé irlandais aux côtés de la population. Un second moment voit alliance du clergé avec le...
University of North Carolina Press, 1990. — 440 p. In, his sixth book on the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, Larkin focuses on the church's role in the first stage of the emergence of the modern Irish political system. This system depended upon the convergence of three crucial elements — the leader, the party, and the Irish bishops as a body — and in the 1870s, these elements...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 272 p. Irish historians have minimized Daniel O'Connell's role in the Irish liberty movement in favor of later nationalist leaders, largely because he failed in the 1843 movement for the repeal of the Act of Union. In this first detailed study of the final, crucial episode in O'Connell's career, Lawrence J. McCaffrey reassesses his place in...
Routledge, 2012. — 336 p. Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two key areas of empire-building: finance and defense.
Four Courts Press, 2006. — 536 p. The third collection of essays by the Irish in Europe Project, this book explores the emergence of Irish communities across Europe from Sweden to the southern tip of Spain. Topics include Irish entrepreneurs in Sweden's industrialization; Irish merchant dynasties in Ostend and Seville; the material culture of Irish families in 18th-century...
Routledge, 2013. — 450 p. The latter half of the eighteenth century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.
Routledge, 2016. — 371 p. The latter half of the eighteenth century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.
Routledge, 2016. — 400 p. The latter half of the eighteenth century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.
Routledge, 2014. — 357 p. The latter half of the eighteenth-century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.
Routledge, 2022. — 582 p. The Act of Union, coming into effect on 1 January 1801, portended the integration of Ireland into a unified, if not necessarily uniform, community. This volume treats the complexities, perspectives, methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the making of the Union, the Catholic question, the age of Daniel...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 240 p. The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspects of the Irish wars, notably regionalism, the nature of English interventions, popular politics, and the problems of allegiance, authority, and legitimacy in church and state. The chapters...
O'Brien Press, 2018. — 192 p. The English invasions of Ireland were never accepted. Each generation of Irish rebels resisted and, in doing so, faced certain death. They became martyrs and left behind speeches and watchwords to spark the flames of nationalism and idealism. Using eyewitness accounts, speeches, and illustrative material, Helen Litton describes these most important...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 322 p. This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It moves from the political, religious, and military turmoil of the seventeenth century, through the years of the protestant ascendancy, to the revolutionary events at the end of the eighteenth century. The book addresses the basic conflicts of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 906 p. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defense in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 838 p. This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative,...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 242 p. Descendants of Ireland's Anglo-Norman conquerors, the Old English had upheld the authority of the English crown in Ireland for four centuries. Yet the sixteenth century witnessed the demotion of this Irish-born and predominantly Catholic community from places of trust and authority in the Irish administration in favor of English Protestant...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 441 p. Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords — Irish and English — it later became a centralized political unit with a single government and code of laws, and a still primitive, but rapidly...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 534 p. For Ireland, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. However the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 214 p. How did the Protestants gain a monopoly over the running of Ireland? To answer this question, Toby Barnard begins with an examination of the Catholics' attempt to regain control over their affairs, first in the 1640s and then between 1689 and 1691. Barnard then outlines how military defeats doomed the Catholics to subjection, allowing...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 1085 p. This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic,...
Four Courts Press, 2011. — 268 p. This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stokes was responsible for the codification of much of Anglo-Indian law. He was also one of the greatest scholars that Ireland has ever produced, and throughout his life, he published...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. — 526 p. Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821 – 24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 268 p. The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events of enduring importance. It initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English linguistic expansion. In Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland, Patricia Palmer...
Irish Academic Press, 1994. — 224 p. James Connolly is a major figure not only in Irish history but also on the broader canvas of international socialism. A man of many parts - militant labor organizer, socialist leader, military commander, newspaper editor, writer, political theorist - his life's work was dedicated to the establishment of the Irish Republic as well as to...
Gill & Macmillan, 2013. — 416 p. The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonization ever attempted in modern Europe and one of the largest European migrations of the period. It was a pivotal episode in Irish history, sending shock waves reverberating down the centuries. In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. — 464 p. The comprehensive defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the pan-European Nine Years' War, prevented the exiled James II from regaining his English throne, ended realistic prospects of a Stuart restoration, and partially secured the new regime of King William III and Queen Mary that had been created by the...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 358 p. This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to...
Four Courts Press, 1997. — 144 p. Kerney Walsh tells the story of Hugh O'Neill after the battle of Kinsale. This last period of The Great O'Neill's life (1602-1616) had only been mentioned in passing by previous biographers since few records had been found in the British Isles. Moreover, what had been preserved were English accounts, which showed O'Neill in a negative light. A...
Manchester University Press, 1996. — 256 p. This volume explores aspects of the experience of Ireland and Irish people within the British Empire and addresses a central concern of modern Irish scholarship. Much academic writing about Ireland, its history, and its culture is dominated by the vocabulary of imperialism. Engels described Ireland as England's first colony....
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 668 p. The relationship between England and Ireland has been marked by turmoil ever since the 5th century when Irish raiders kidnapped St. Patrick. Perhaps the most consequential chapter in this saga was the subjugation of the island during the 16th century, and particularly efforts associated with the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. — 301 p. This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual identities as imperial officers and Irishmen, through land agitation, the...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. — 301 p. This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual identities as imperial officers and Irishmen, through land agitation, the...
Forth Edition. — Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2003. — 206 p. — ISBN: 0-86327-913-9. This tantalising description is one of many descriptions in the Elizabethan State Papers of a most remarkable Irish woman. To the sixteenth century English administrators and military men who firstly by persuasion and later by the sword came to conquer the land of her birth, this ‘notorious woman’...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 654 p. This is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland.The book opens with an...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 1085 p. — (The Cambridge History of Ireland). — ISBN10: 1107534151, ISBN13: 978-1107534155. This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 378 p. This ground-breaking study traces the impact of the American revolution and of the international war it precipitated on the political outlook of each section of Irish society. Morley uses a dazzling array of sources – newspapers, pamphlets, sermons and political songs, including Irish-language documents unknown to other scholars and...
London, England/Ronceverte, WV: The Hambledon Press, 1987 - 422 p. ISBN: 0-907628-85-0. ntroduction - Alan O'Day. Symbols of Irish Nationalism - Peter Alter. Patriotism as Pastime: The Appeal of Fenianism in the Mid-1860s - R. V. Comerford. reland and the Ballot Act of 1872 - Michael Hurst. The Political Mobilization of Irish Farmers - Samuel Clark. The Tenants' Movement to...
Houndmills, Hampshire/New York City, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 - 268 p. ISBN: 978-0-3336-7772-8 The potato famine of 1845-51 was a pivotal event in the development of modern Ireland. No aspect of Irish life was untouched by the crisis. Kinealy offers not just a general history of the famine, but an illuminating exploration of aspects which have received little attention,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 319 p. ISBN: 0230221947. Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom. On 8 June...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 289 p. ISBN: 052164318X Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry....
Dublin: For the Irish archaelogical society, 1851. — 426 p. Other Authors: Larcom, Thomas Aiskew. Language: English Series: Irish archaelogical society. Publication ; no. 14 Subjects: Ireland. Originally published in 1851, a title investigating the Cromwellian seizure of Ireland in 1655. Looks at the allocation of land to the unpaid soldiers of the army, the hardships endured...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. - 318 p. ISBN: 0199251843 This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish...