A guide to contemporary approaches to studying Ireland in the nineteenth century.

The many meanings of memorials, depending on their viewer, and other questions centered on memory, are applied in these essays (first presented at a 1998 conference at the ...

This festschrift honours the contribution to historical scholarship and Irish public life by Professor John A. Murphy, independent member of the Irish Senate during a turbulent ...

In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness ...

In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the ...

This book provides a much-needed historiographical overview of modern Irish History, which is often written mainly from a socio-political perspective. This guide offers a ...

Takes a fresh look at how the siege of Derry, a significant event for Irish Unionists, has been celebrated over the last three centuries and assesses how the 1798 rebellion has ...

The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history—that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed ...