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In this series Medieval Studies / Trinity Ireland Series

The Irish church, its reform and the English invasion Donnchadh Ó Corráin

‘Ó Corráin has long been one of the leading figures in early medieval Irish studies. His range is unparalleled […] In this book, Ó Corráin Summer 2019 brings to bear his ability to argue against the grain and question our assumptions. As reform 568pp ills of the Irish church became entangled with Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-793-8 the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland and its aftermath, an event long given the status of a €65 / £55 / $85 national Rubicon, this is a thought-provoking contribution. This book provides much food for thought; it is learned, provocative and the fruit Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: history, culture and of one of the great scholars of early medieval society Ireland. It has lessons to teach’, Elva Johnston, Irish Times. Katharine Simms (2017) 156pp The Plantation of Ulster followed from the perceived recalcitrance and Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-667-2 military strength of its Gaelic lords. This book examines the prelude to €35 / £30 / $50 their final rebellion. After a brief survey of medieval Ulster’s heritage from the Iron Age and Early Christian period, it gives a detailed narrative of Ulster history from the eleventh to the early sixteenth century, relating the The Geraldines and medieval politics and culture of the province to developments in the rest of Ireland Ireland: the making of a myth and Europe. It then delves into the ‘plain living and high thinking’ of its Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors somewhat enigmatic society, operating largely independently of towns or ‘This book exposes many of the myths created coinage, describing in turn its chieftains, churchmen, scholars, warriors, by the family itself or by those who sought to court ladies and other women, and the amusements and everyday life of use it and its history to further their own ends. the people. Through meticulous scholarship, long-standing assumptions, such as the family’s total Katharine Simms lectured in medieval history at TCD until 2010. She has assimilation into the Gaelic milieu, becoming written From kings to warlords: the changing political structure of Gaelic “more Irish than the Irish themselves”, hell-bent on rebelling against the English Crown, are Ireland in the later Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 1987), Medieval Gaelic seriously challenged by expert authors drawn sources (Dublin, 2009), and many articles on Gaelic Ireland. from both sides of the Irish Sea […] This is an excellent book and a fine addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in medieval Ireland’, Randolph Jones, The Ricardian: Journal of the Richard III Society.

(2017) 446pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-627-6 €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 04 MEDIEVAL STUDIES / TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SERIES Medieval Studies / Trinity Ireland Series

Government, war and society in medieval Ireland: essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon Peter Crooks, editor

In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with implications that resonate to the present day. How are we to interpret this formative period of Irish history? In the course of the twentieth century, three successive occupants of the Lecky chair of history in TCD sought to provide answers. Modern scholarship remains deeply indebted to the work of Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon. This volume brings together twenty-one of their most influential essays on the social, institutional and political character of the English colony in medieval Ireland. The editor’s introduction explores the careers of ‘the Lecky Professors’ and assesses their intellectual legacy. An indispensable collection of essays for all those interested in the history of Ireland and Britain in the Middle Ages, this paperback new edition contains a bibliographical essay by the editor, which offers a guide to works published between 2008 and 2018.

‘Entertaining and extremely well written, researched and footnoted. [The editor] highlights the importance of the authors’ publications, and includes the Spring 2019 (previously announced) individuals’ influences and stylistic differences, while keeping a critical eye on 432pp colour ills both the authors and their commentators’, IHS. Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-733-4 Peter Crooks is lecturer in medieval history at TCD and a fellow of the Royal €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 Historical Society.

The Irish–Scottish world in the Middle Ages Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors

In this volume, the proceedings of the 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of King Robert Bruce of Scotland), experts explore crucial aspects of Irish–Scottish links in the Middle Ages.

Contents: Dauvit Broun (U Glasgow), Ireland and the beginnings of Scotland; Thomas Owen Clancy (U Glasgow), Scotland and Ireland before 800; James E. Fraser (U Guelph), Ireland and the Christianization of Scotland; Bernard Meehan (TCD), The art of early medieval Ireland and Scotland; Benjamin Hudson (Penn State U), The literary world of early medieval Ireland and Scotland; Alex Woolf (U St Andrews), The Scottish and Irish church in the tenth to twelfth centuries; R.A. McDonald (Brock U), Ireland, Scotland and the kingdom of the Isles; Michael Penman (U Stirling), The Bruce invasion of Ireland: a Scottish perspective; Seán Duffy (TCD), The Bruce invasion of Ireland: an Irish perspective; Robin Frame (Durham U), The earldom of Ulster between England and Scotland; Katharine Simms (TCD), Scotland and the politics of Gaelic Ulster; Martin MacGregor (U Glasgow), Identity and culture in late medieval Scotland and Ireland; Michael Brown (U St Andrews), Scotland and Ireland in the late Middle Ages. Winter 2019 (previously announced) 320pp ills Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn and Peter Crooks lecture in the Department of History, TCD. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-635-1 €50 / £45 / $70 MEDIEVAL STUDIES / TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SERIES 05

Recently published Medieval Studies / Trinity Ireland Series

Life and death in medieval Gaelic Ireland: the skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal Catriona J. McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy

In 2003, the skeletal remains of some 1,300 individuals – men, women and children – were Spring 2020 uncovered from Ballyhanna, near Ballyshannon in Co. Donegal. Radiocarbon dating indicates 320pp that the cemetery was in use for a prolonged Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-794-5 period of time from the seventh century to the seventeenth century. The remains of €55 / £50 / $74.50 all individuals were subject to a detailed osteological and palaeopathological analysis. This book contextualizes the results of the Plantagenet Ireland research, revealing a wealth of information concerning the health, diet and lifestyle Robin Frame of the people buried at Ballyhanna. The analysis represents the first comprehensive For two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal study of a skeletal population from medieval descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English Gaelic Ireland and provides detailed insights crown not just by English law and direct administration, but through concerning the hitherto largely invisible lower other networks, above all the allegiance of a settler establishment led by class of Gaelic society. aristocratic, ecclesiastical and civic elites that benefited from being within (2018) 472pp ills the orbit of royal patronage and service. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-330-5 This book contains fifteen interlinked studies, several of which appear here €50 / £45 / $70 for the first time. The opening chapters trace Ireland’s changing place within a wider Plantagenet realm that itself altered geographically and Epigraphy in an intermedial institutionally during the period. In the thirteenth century Gaelic leaders context were pushed to the geographical and political margins. In the fourteenth, Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane & Terje English control and English custom retreated, posing fresh challenges to the Spurkland, editors crown and its ministers. Despite the alarmist claims of settler communities, Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard Plantagenet Ireland was far from collapsing. Later chapters explore the material such as stone, metal and wood. altered distribution of power across the island. English chief governors, As a discipline, it is often considered to some of whom had experience of other borderlands of the Plantagenet be part of the literary sources written in a realm, exercised power in a mixture of cultural modes, which enabled them certain language or recorded in a certain to draw in, rather than simply confront, Gaelic lords and marcher lineages. area. However, because of their materiality, epigraphic monuments do not consist only and foremost of verbal communication; the written Robin Frame, a graduate of TCD, is emeritus professor of history at text represents only one of several components Durham U. He is the author of English lordship in Ireland, 1318−1361 constituting this kind of communication. (Oxford, 1982), The political development of the British Isles, 1100−1400 Further elements, such as the visual component (Oxford, 1990) and Ireland and Britain, 1170−1450 (London, 1998). A and the layout, as well as the location of the second edition of his Colonial Ireland, 1169−1369 was published by Four monuments in a landscape or in a specific context, all interact to convey a joint message. Courts Press in 2012. This book is a collection of essays on Viking Age and medieval epigraphy from Northern Europe from a perspective of intermediality, arguing for an interdisciplinary study of all epigraphic sources from a common period.

(2018) 216pp large format, full colour Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-716-7 €55 / £50 / $74.50 nd here the recordnd here the of a too-often forgotten past. fi The Gaelic Finn tradition II editors Parsons, & Geraldine Síle Ní Mhurchú Arbuthnot, J. Sharon The figure on the and lore centered Finn encompasses Gaelic tradition literature earlier in the those with as of Finn Mac Cumaill. The essays cover, volume in this (2012), The tradition Finn Gaelic volume, numerous aspects tradition, this of modern, and collectors medieval texts both including and collections of oral Finn landscapes the material, Finn of Finn of the reception Cycle Cumaill and the Mac outside world. Gaelic the ContentsArbuthnot J. (QUB),: Sharon a lexical as Agallamh The Reeves resource; (UCC), John Carey The of Diarmaid: death Bulben?; Ben to Pessinus Naessens FitzPatrick (NUIG),Elizabeth and Paul boundary Medieval landscapes (RIA), places Flahive ; Joseph J. and hunting in fíanaigecht chloidhimh ‘A literary concept of the chléirchín and the an chluig’ Ireland; cycle in medieval Maxim (UU), Fomin tradition; Cormaic and fíanaigecht Gunderloch Anja Tecosca (U Edinburgh), William Robertson Campbell, John Francis collection and the tales and ballads in nineteenth-centuryof fianaigheacht Scotland; Sìm Innes (U Glasgow), Scottish (1908): Grant’s na Féinne Whyte Dùsgadh Katherine kinderspiel;Gaelic Martina Maher (U Edinburgh), The Snechtai- Cín Dromma in Egerton complex fíanaigecht Bernhard 1782; Maier (Tübingen U), Late Victorian about Ossian ideas origins and the of Celtic studies and Scotland in Germany; Murray Kevin (UCC),; Síle Ní Mhurchú Acallam na Senórach Editing (UCC), Shercliff; Rebecca The Phádraig Oisín agus in Agallamh contention poetic (U Cambridge), The narrative unity of ‘Finn tree’; man in the and the Natasha Sumner (Harvard U), The Fianna folklore and the collectors. eDIL, School of Arts, Arbuthnot J. Sharon and English is an assistant editor, Síle Ní Mhurchú QUB. is a lecturerLanguages, Department in the of Modern Irish, UCC. is a lecturer Geraldine Parsons in Celtic and Gaelic, U Glasgow. was born in the parish of Badoney Lower, Co. Tyrone, and Tyrone, Co. born Devlin parish in the Lower, was Ciarán J. of Badoney After Derry, and in MU. College, his ordination in Saint Columb’s educated appointed subsequently He was and Irish French in Saint Columb’s. he taught where he served for nearly twentyparish priest Lower, years his until in Badoney afterretirement, diocesan as archivist appointed and historian. which he was He died on 22 August 2012. The Derry making of medieval Devlin J. Ciarán ‘[T]his a revolutionary ways work which and in many is a most comprehensive […] will stand test the and find of time of anyone a place book shelves on the who cares often about the colourful history and complicated of our people’, Diarmuid The Furrow. Ó Doibhlin, Derry of medieval The making This paperback Devlin’s new of Ciarán J. edition did that Ó Muraíle, Nollaig prepared by of indexes, range features an extensive hardback The edition. in the feature not two most important are of personal names and surnames, and of names of places and population-groups. In of authors index and sources, are a bibliographical there and a general addition, assist should greatly these indexes items, of some 3,500 a total to index. Running reader in understandingthe story the of saints It is a tale Ciarán Devlin. by told and sinners, of churchmen and warlords, of scholars and craftsmen, of Derry and episcopal capital The see. royal as citadel, frontier as itself city, sacred as reader will .50

MEDIEVAL STUDIES STUDIES MEDIEVAL / CELTIC 256pp ills Summer 2019 256pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-795-2 €55 / £50 / $74 Winter 2018 454pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-755-6 / $35 €24.95 / £19.95

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Medieval Dublin XVIII Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2016 Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains a wealth of new research on Dublin’s medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René Gapert that re-examine skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas Street. Alan Hayden reports on his excavation of property plots fronting onto Kevin Street and New Street and what they tell us about the supposed fourteenth-century decline of Dublin, and Aisling Collins explains the significant findings from the dig of the church and graveyard at St James’s. Antoine Giacometti examines a medieval tanning quarter that showcases leatherworking and shoemaking in medieval Dublin, complementing work by John Nicholl that analyses footwear styles in the late medieval city based on evidence excavated from Chancery Lane. This aspect of life is illustrated too in the findings of Paul Duffy’s excavations in Thomas Street, which reveal a great deal about crafts in the western suburb of medieval Dublin. Franc Myles reports on the findings of his excavation at Keysar’s Lane beside St Audeon’s church in High Street, including some fascinatingly decorated medieval floor tiles; Jon Stirland reports on the discovery of two parallel ditches of possible early medieval/medieval date located to the rear of nos 19–22 Aungier Winter 2019 Street; and Edmond O’Donovan describes his discoveries while excavating in the 288pp ills internal courtyard at the site of the Bank of Ireland at College Green, marked on Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-815-7 Speed’s 1610 map of Dublin as ‘the hospital’. Historical papers include Denis Casey’s analysis of Dublin’s economy in its twelfth-century Irish context and Brian €50 / £45 / $70 Coleman’s study of taxation and resistance in fifteenth-century Dublin. Thomas Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-816-4 W. Smith shines light on papal provisions to ecclesiastical benefices in thirteenth- €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 century Dublin, while Stephen Hewer examines the oldest surviving original court roll of the Dublin bench, dating from 1290.

Medieval Dublin XVII Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2015 Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains a number of important studies relating to the archaeology of medieval Dublin, including the results of Antoine Giacometti’s excavations piecing together the medieval urban landscape of James’s Street; Máire Geaney’s new interpretation of the carpentry involved in the Anglo-Norman waterfront revetments at Wood Quay; Sheila Dooley’s examination of the ‘lost’ medieval church of St Michael on the site of the modern Dublinia heritage centre; and Gillian Boazman’s study of material culture and identity in the southern hinterland of Hiberno-Norse Dublin in the half-barony of Rathdown. Historical analyses include a re-examination of the origins of the medieval diocese of Dublin by Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel; Therese O’Byrne’s brilliant new investigation of the networks of Anglo-Irish literary scribes working in later medieval Dublin. Áine Foley pieces together the history of the le Brun family, who were prominent in the life of the medieval city for centuries; Paul Dryburgh re-examines the Dublin connections of Roger Mortimer, first earl of March, lieutenant of Ireland at the time of the Bruce Invasion, and lover of Edward II’s queen, Isabella; and Phyllis Gaffney and Yolande Sexton provide a complete English translation of the Anglo-Norman Dublin Spring 2019 (previously announced) custumal known as Les leys et les usages de la cite de Diveline from the Dublin 320pp ills Chain Book, a vital source of information about daily life in the medieval city. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-730-3 | €50 / £45 / $70 Seán Duffy is professor of medieval Irish and Insular history at TCD and chairman Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-731-0 of the Friends of Medieval Dublin. €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 Luke McInerney Luke This study learned explores the families Gaelic (poets, historians and physicians) A wide-ranging the it looks at lived. in which they context and the survey, and structureslandholdings of individual learned settled families were that include the explored period.in Thomond Topics medieval during late the social hierarchies the and of legitimizing a way ‘production as of knowledge’ powerful of their landholdings patrons. Different types are power of cultural the who employed elite, Gaelic the used by were they especially how explored, learned only preserve class not to advice, provide and law genealogies, dispense interests their promote but also to in a variety topics Other of ways. include the learned the cohesive esprit de corps families, shared by remarkably and the type of networks sustain learning. in to The these families book directs engaged of onomastic,attention range the archaeological and literary to materials that build up a picturecan help men of learning. Gaelic about the McInerney is an independent researcher a particular with Luke interest in the history medieval late of Clerical author He is the and learned Ireland. of Gaelic Clare: Co. a survey fifteenth-century of medieval of the lineages registers papal (Dublin, 2014) and is an active contributor history to journals. Learned families, scholarly networks and sites of native learning Thomond in late medieval Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present editors & Thomas Mohr, Crooks Peter CartaMagna most the is among famous documents history in the world, of the first the being with credited effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive The Carta fame of Magna on tyranny. and unjust rule – in a word, as spread This volume in its globe the girdle Britain, came power. to and later England, firstis the importance the examine to story in the of Ireland Carta’s of Magna dissemination. centuries Four Carta before Magna crossed Atlantic, the it had issued across in Irish the already been implanted charter, of the Sea. A version boy-king the name of 1216 in the Henry where Ireland, November sent to was III, that in Ireland tradition common law English the to it became fundamental survives present. the to of a conference This proceedings – the marking volume anniversary 800th the transmission of the Carta of Magna – explores Ireland to Carta of Magna above reception the presented by Irish paradoxes the into law, contestedall the idea of ‘liberty’ Contributors in Ireland. examine developed that political and polemical Carta which uses Magna legal, to the put from the was thirteenth its as century twentieth- well twentieth-first-century and as onwards, presence a living as in contemporary The also volume invocations Irish law. Carta Magna of the and translation edition includes a new Hibernie (‘The Great Charter of Ireland’) 1216 issue of the Carta of Magna – an adaptation found in in 1922. destroyed which was Irishthe Book of Exchequer, Red the in theA volume Irish Legal History Society series. 26. See also p. MEDIEVAL STUDIES MEDIEVAL Autumn 2019 (previously announced) 144pp colour ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-732-7 / $29.95 / £17.95 €19.95 Summer 2019 (previously announced) 320pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-740-2 €55 / £50 / $74.50

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Summer 2019 320pp colour ills Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-788-4 de Compostela €50 / £45 / $70 Bernadette Cunningham ‘[M]aps in fascinating detail the pilgrimage cultures of the Irish and wider medieval world’, Households of God: the regular Canons and Greg Daly, Irish Catholic. Canonesses of St Augustine and of Prémontré in medieval Ireland (2018) 208pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-729-7 Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors €19.95 / £17.95 / $29.95 This interdisciplinary collection of essays, the proceedings of the 2017 Glenstal History Conference, examines the role of regular Canons and Canonesses Four Offaly saints: the Lives of who followed the rule of St Augustine in Ireland from their emergence as an Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Ciarán of expression of the Vita Apostolica in the twelfth century through the dissolution Seir, Colmán of Lynally and Fíonán of the monasteries in the Tudor period to their eventual disappearance in the of Kinnitty early nineteenth century. Although the most numerous and widespread of all the religious orders in medieval Ireland, the Canonical movement has been relatively Pádraig Ó Riain neglected in Irish monastic historiography. This volume combines the work of ‘The importance of this publication is not scholars of the history, archaeology and architecture of the movement with the simply that these texts are translated into research of others working on its cultural, economic, liturgical, intellectual and English for the first time, but Ó Riain’s editing has situated the lives in their historical context pastoral activities. Between them the contributors provide a fascinating insight and made them accessible to both specialist into the Canons and Canonesses in their Irish context while situating them in a and non-specialist alike’, The Furrow. broader European and ecclesial context. (2018) 168pp colour ills Contents: Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB (Glenstal Abbey), Introduction; Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme), The Vita Apostolica Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-704-4 and the origin of the Augustinian Canons in medieval Ireland; Marie €14.95 / £13.95 / $19.95 Therese Flanagan (professor emerita, QUB), Victorine Canons in medieval Ireland; Miriam Clyne (ind.), The monasteries of the Canons of Prémontré, In enigmate: the history of a riddle, c.1180–c.1607; Tracy Collins (Aegis Archaeology), An archaeology of 400–1500 Augustinian nuns in later medieval Ireland; Christy Cunniffe (ind.), The Canons and Canonesses of St Augustine at Clonfert; Adrian Empey (ind.), The role of Erin Sebo the Canons Regular of St Augustine in the formation of the parochial network (2018) 204pp in Ireland; Arlene Hogan (ind.), The settlement of the Augustinian Canons of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland, 1172–1541; Tadhg O’Keeffe (UCD), Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-634-4 Transeptal churches of the Canons Regular in Ireland; Rachel Moss (TCD), €50 / £45 / $70 The material culture of the Canonical movement in medieval Ireland; Louise Nugent (Mary I, Limerick), The Augustinian Canons and the development of late medieval Irish pilgrimage; Pádraig Ó Riain (professor emeritus, UCC), The The cultural reception of the Bible: Canons Regular and Irish hagiography; Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB (Glenstal explorations in theology, literature Abbey), The Chapter Office and Chapter Books in Irish Augustinian foundations; and the arts Brendan Scott (MU), The dissolution of the Augustinian communities in the Pale Salvador Ryan & Liam M. Tracey OSM, editors during the Henrician period; Clemens Galban Can. Reg. (Stift Klosterneuburg), (2018) 332pp colour ills The Augustinian Canons in early modern Ireland. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-725-9 Martin Browne and Colmán Ó Clabaigh are Benedictine monks of Glenstal €50 / £45 / $70 Abbey, Co. Limerick. An Open Air publication Moygara Castle,Moygara County the and Sligo O’Garas of Coolavin editor Kieran O’Conor, curtain and high is one of gatehouse its Castle, walls, with four towers, Moygara mostthe masonry-built impressive monuments in north Connacht. Constructed fourteenth/early late in the fifteenth century castle the O’Garas, the by functioned of Coolavin. a centre lordship of their as CastleThis marshals various study fields of Moygara of expertise – history, survey geophysical and DNA genealogy, architecture, geography, archaeology, Gaelic much-needed information provide about life – to analysis in later-medieval Ireland. Rory M. 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Carrick firstone of the oldest is the Bay, Anglo- Bannow knights at land to Norman fortification an important as country. in the The developed borough site thirteenthin the century first one of the home to and it was Marshal castles in earliest Anglo-Norman of one of Ireland’s site also the south-east.the It was deerparks. itsDespite historical passed in and out of public has significance, site the Irish in the Heritage been located it has National consciousness. 1987, Since whichPark, partnered Irish the with Archaeology carry Field School in 2018 to of Lost the archaeological Town research – ‘Digging out a major programme results the This details volume Carrig of the well Carrig’. as project date, to coincide a with select and is published to as research previous site, the at anniversary 850th the commemorate to of events programme site the of both landing. Anglo-Norman and the is a director Shine Denis Irish of the Archaeological Field School and a founding of Carrig’ project.partner Michael Lost the Potterton Town ‘Digging of the is a lecturer Department in the Mandal is a director Stephen of History, MU. of the Irish Archaeological Field partner School and a founding Lost the ‘Digging of the of Carrig’ project. CatherineTown McLoughlin is a partner in Stafford and consultancy a heritage in Wexford. based Archaeology, McLoughlin Carrick, County first Wexford: Ireland’s Anglo-Norman stronghold Mandal & Catherine Michael Potterton, Stephen Denis Shine, editors McLoughlin, MEDIEVAL STUDIES MEDIEVAL Autumn 2019 format224pp large colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-797-6 €45 / £40 / $65 Autumn 2019 format192pp large colour ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-796-9 / $35 €24.95 / £22.50

10 Medieval Studies 11 Medieval Studies / Early Modern Studies In this seriesIn this Agriculture and settlement in Ireland Matthew & Murphy Stout, Margaret editors ‘The is wide-ranging content […] Taken [the essays] demonstrate real together, study in the advances important of this landscape […] Irish of the component medieval a comprehensive and with Copiously footnoted […]bibliography Contributors, editors and on this publishers be congratulated are to our understanding of the book for advancing Glasscock, Robin landscape history of Ireland’, SettlementMedieval Research. 2015 256pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-507-1 €50 / £45 / $70 Church and settlement Ireland in editors & Matthew Stout, James Lyttleton Group for the Published in association with of Irish Historic Study the Settlement the and American Society Studies, for Irish Medieval essays book features twelve new exciting this of expertsfrom an international panel on landscapes.religious dynamic the They explore betweenrelationship settlement and the of Christianity, dawn the spanning church, eras. post-medieval Middle Ages and the the Clearly written this and profusely illustrated, centuries, the the over how, shows volume church formed settlement of a core component of the creation role in a significant and played distinct landscapes cultural in Ireland. Contributors: James G. Schryver (U Morris),Minnesota, Brian Ó Broin (William Jersey), New U, Paterson (UCC), Boazman Gill Ó Carragáin (UCC),Tómas Preston- Lahney MacCotter York), Matto New Paul U, (Adelphi (UCC), (UCC), Lafaye Annejulie Collins Tracy (UCC), (National Geraldine Stout Monuments Service), David A. (UL), Fleming Finbar McCormick (QUB). 2018 304pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-728-0 €50 / £45 / $70 MEDIEVAL STUDIES STUDIES MODERN MEDIEVAL / EARLY Winter 2018 302pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-756-3 €45 / £40 / $65 Religion, landscape and settlementReligion, in Ireland: from Patrick to present Whelan Kevin ‘The sheer audacity short undertaking of this Whelanis nothing Kevin by of […]breathtaking This is clearly write, Whelan felt he had to book that the one whichthe marries a historian his considerable skills as and social interest for an outlet his passionate in while also providing commentator, Irish Times. Maher, Eamon landscape of Ireland,’ religious the pastsThere Irish the are many within past. This book explores of them, one (with insights of historical blend the its to seeking field-based geography and continuities), context on environment, emphasis archaeology (with its site-and artefact-based focus), and history (with its on archival emphasis evidence). The experience lived focus is on the of real people in real places abstractions the classnot and race. There of nationality, is a persuasive elements in integral and landscape as religion both forargument regarding Irish history. fast-paced book traces religion, interplay the among This engaging, highly landscape and settlement patterns a very over period. time long It is heavily a wide array on maps, draws fresh and new images many with illustrated from drawn and uses examples languages, evidence in multiple of diverse every those to county engaging be equally to It is designed island. on the subject, about the who study and those it intensively. nothing who know of Irish Historic Study the for Group the with Published in association Settlement American Studies. Society and the Irish for Medieval WhelanKevin is director University Global Gateway of the Dame of Notre in Dublin. 12 EARLY MODERN STUDIES Early Modern Studies Recently published

The colonial world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork David Edwards & Colin Rynne, editors

‘Richard Boyle […] was one of the most (in)famous English colonial entrepreneurs within the early modern Atlantic world […] Winter 2019 Many, if not all […] assumptions [about him] have been carefully re-examined and 208pp ills deconstructed within this engaging collection Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-798-3 of essays. The end result is a far more nuanced assessment of both Boyle and the practice of €55 / £50 / $74.50 colonialism in early modern Ireland [… This] important book will […] not only be useful to those with an interest in early modern The daughters of the first earl of Cork: writing family, colonization projects, it will also appeal to faith, politics and place those interested in more-rounded histories of the early Stuart state and the origins of wars in Ann-Maria Walsh the three kingdoms’, History Scotland.

Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of (2018 ) 286pp colour ills the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-689-4 Boyle (1566–1643), first earl of Cork, this book examines how these €50 / £45 / $70 women perceived and wrote their lives as individuals and as members of their famous family. The book explores the theme of identity through close readings of the extant texts from a number of perspectives: the figuration Walter Devereux, first earl of of Ireland; gender; the impact of civil war rupture; Protestantism; and Essex, and the colonization of legacy-making. This original showcasing of the Boyle women’s largely north-east Ulster, c.1573–6 forgotten female-voiced texts further illuminates how these women used the David Heffernan occasion of family writing and record-keeping to develop self-presentation Devereux’s colonisation effort ended in utter strategies that allowed them to situate their lives at the centre of the failure, and has become notorious for the transformations that were taking place in early modern Ireland and Britain. atrocities perpetrated by his forces at Belfast in 1574 and on Rathlin Island in 1575. When Ann-Maria Walsh teaches in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. he died in 1576, his personal wealth had been decimated and Ulster remained as firmly resistant to crown encroachments as it had been in 1573. Moreover, the patrimony of his son and heir, Robert Devereux, had been considerably compromised, with major implications for the career of the more infamous second earl. This book presents the first full account of Essex’s ‘Enterprise’. In doing so it sheds light on the nature of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, and the limitations of the early modern state.

(2018) 192pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-734-1 €60 / £50 / $80 EARLY MODERN STUDIES 13 Early Modern Studies

Social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540 Peadar Slattery

This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the cityʼs personalities, and Dublinʼs unwanted Irish. Dublin was an English city run by a local merchant oligarchy. In the 1450s, they set standards of behaviour for the inhabitants. Hearing of the manhandling of one of their bailiffs, the governors of Dublin rode to Howth to defend the honour of Dublin. Yet, Dublinʼs rulers broke the law, were indicted for counterfeiting, and committed treason by crowning Lambert Simnel as king of England.

The merchants traded in Dublin, in Chester and in the English midlands, and some ventured as far south as Bordeaux. The city rulers faced many urban problems – ensuring water and food supplies for the city, maintaining Dublinʼs gates and walls, setting up night-watch patrols, regulating its port, and ensuring standards of hygiene. Dublin was threatened by external attacks from the Irish and expulsion was tried on the Irish living in Dublin. The laity loved their traditional Catholic faith and the mysterious magical atmosphere created by the use of candles, darkness, colourful vestments, bells, incense and Latin plainchant. Purgatory threatened but there was the solace of devotion to the Summer 2019 Blessed Virgin in Marian liturgies. In civil matters, the church was ruthless, 320pp colour ills excommunicating members at a rate of two or three a week. The laity were Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-790-7 steadily gaining access to the church and were managing parish affairs. The church was attacked by reformers in Dublin, its relics destroyed, its monasteries €45 / £40 / $65 occupied and its liturgical books censored.

Peadar Slattery was awarded a doctorate in modern history by TCD and has published a number of articles on timber and wood in medieval times in Ireland.

Society and administration in the Ulster Plantation towns, 1610–89 Brendan Scott, editor

Although much has been written on various aspects of the Ulster Plantation, no sustained work on its urban aspects has been undertaken since the research of Robert Hunter. This collection attempts to rectify that lacuna.

Contents: Rachel Treacy (QUB), Uncovering Ulster Plantation towns: rhetoric, reality and resonance; Jonathan Cherry (DCU), Ulster’s Plantation towns: a geographical perspective; Brendan Scott (MU), The town book of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, 1657–89; Bríd McGrath (TCD), Creating and managing a new town: Coleraine, 1623–69; William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation), Strabane in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; Annaleigh Margey (Dundalk IT), London’s urban influence in seventeenth-century Ulster; Raymond Gillespie (MU), The marketplaces in Ulster plantation towns; Paddy Fitzgerald (Mellon Centre, Ulster-American Folk Park), Urban Ulster, Dublin and the problem of the poor in the early modern period; Gerard Farrell (TCD), The Irish presence in seventeenth- century urban Ulster; Robert Armstrong (TCD), Planting Protestantism in urban Ulster; Colm Lennon (MU), Catholicism and Ulster Plantation towns.

Summer 2019 (previously announced) Brendan Scott holds a PhD in early modern Irish history and is the author and 256pp ills editor of a number of books and articles dealing with religion, trade and society in Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-735-8 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland. €50 / £45 / $70 Recently published Recently Ciara Boylan Ciara Church as appointed was When Whately his archbishop in 1831, of Dublin of Ireland controversial liberalism made him a highly own church. His wide-ranging his figure within in Irish economic and social involvement as affairs,chairman including the of Whately Commission of inquiry Irish into poverty de facto the and as national the head of far outside the him move saw education board, a broad with ecclesiastical engage to sphere of economic and political issues.range A key on various aspectsthinker condition of the of represent came a form to Whately Ireland, strengthen to sought of liberal unionism that means place union by the within Ireland’s of reformist A schemes of improvement. of many and eccentricsingular character, effortsWhately’s at reform the floundered in his willingness to face However, of opposition. devices part as sanction novel of an effortto an overlooked to speaks improvement instigate reformist meet designed to homegrown impulse needs of Irishthe circumstances. (2018) 216pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-640-5 €50/£45/$70 Valentine Lawless, LordValentine Cloncurry, 1773–1853: Irishman from United to liberal politician Holton Karina ‘[A] study of an overlooked groundbreaking figure in Irish history’,Sylvie HistoryKleinman, Ireland. (2018) 318pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-705-1 €55 / £50 / $74.50 The life career and of Archbishop Richard Whately: religion Ireland, and reform Summer 2019 160pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-791-4 / $45 €34.95 / £29.95 This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence unpublished previously the of available This book makes an eighteenth-century Keane, IrishMichael attorney Vincent. St of general ranks of colonial the rose through Kerry, Co. Keane Ballylongford, From society Indian fortune. of the and established a protégé a West He was earl of Shelburne (who served briefly associated prime as and was minister) Americanwith a call for Irish independence, equality United the within Kingdom, and a desire for of British acceptance the Catholics. on Indeed, rejecting any thereby Irish’, ‘wholly he was insisted that Keane his deathbed identity of an Anglo-Irish notion Church Protestant the or association within Asof Ireland. his letters of reflect, of a wide range on behalf worked Keane Irish merchants, Irish Irish-West Indian planters and other had people who settled society. English into him first Irish-West odyssey brought Indian British the to colony Keane’s of Barbados and after Ceded the Islands, which Britain 1763 to Great in St his base From War. Years conclusion the Seven at of the acquired Vincent, estates he founded he christened sugar that ‘Liberty and Lodge’ ‘Bow-wood’ Shelburne. As in honour of his patron his correspondence of Irish on behalf interests Atlantic he worked had become that shows, Catholic, including colonial and the world, Protestant dispersed throughout Non-Conformist Irish-West Indian planters absentee as merchants, well as and merchants Kitts, in Barbados, and St Nevis protect him to to who looked letter His the a rare look into book provides intereststheir colony. in the attorney plantation world of the and manager. Mark S. Quintanilla is a historian world and a two-time Atlantic the of manuscript much of this during who edited a residence in Scholar, Fulbright VincentSt Grenadines. and the He holds a PhD and is a professor of history U. Hannibal-LaGrange at An Irishman’s life on the CaribbeanAn Irishman’s of island Vincent,St 1787–90: the letter Attorney book of General Michael Keane Mark S. Quintanilla 18TH- & 19TH-CENTURY STUDIES

14 18th- & 19th-Century Studies 18TH- & 19TH-CENTURY STUDIES 15 18th- & 19th-Century Studies Recently published

The Irish Revenue Police: a short history and genealogical guide to the ‘poteen hussars’ Jim Herlihy

‘It would be difficult to find a question on the Irish Revenue Police that the researcher would Summer 2019 (prev. announced) not find an answer to in this book with its 24 Appendices and numerous areas of easily 240pp ills accessed information and statistics. Jim Herlihy Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-736-5 has again done a splendid job on his research for this book. Already an acknowledged expert €45 / £40 / $65 on the RIC, DMP and Garda Siochana, this work of reference should find a valuable place on every researcher’s bookcase’, Police Service An Ulster slave owner in the revolutionary Atlantic: Gazette. the life and letters of John Black (2018) 260pp ills Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editor Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-702-0 Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for the West Indies in 1771 and never €24.95 / £22.95 / $35 returned. Settling first in Grenada, he moved on to Trinidad in 1784 and An Open Air publication established himself as a major slave owner and a prominent figure among the island’s planter elite. An Ulster slave owner in the revolutionary Atlantic The Irish brigade in the Pope’s presents and contextualizes a series of twenty revealing letters written army 1860: faith, fatherland an by John Black during the period 1799 to 1836. Addressed to his brother fighting George, who lived outside Belfast, Black’s letters represent an attempt Donal Corcoran to maintain familial relationships across the distance of the Atlantic and Some 1,300 young men from Ireland answered reveal the close connections tying Ulster to the West Indies during the early the call to cross Europe and defend Pope Pius nineteenth century. They shed light on the difficulties of mercantile life in an IX’s Papal States from advancing armies. As age of political and economic unrest and, above all, offer a vivid portrait of the Irish arrived, King Victor Emmanuel II’s a world that revolved around the institution of slavery – a world of which well-trained, well-organized, battle-tested Ulster was emphatically a part. Piedmontese army was advancing towards the Papal States from the north. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the most famous revolutionary of Jonathan Jeffrey Wright lectures in British history at MU. His previous his day, was advancing from the south with his publications include The ‘natural leaders’ and their world: politics, culture ‘red shirt’ guerrillas. Their joint goal: to unite and society in Belfast, c.1801–1832 (Liverpool, 2012) and (edited with the peoples and states of the Italian peninsula. Diarmid A. Finnegan) Spaces of global knowledge: exhibition, encounter and The pope’s poorly defended territory, stretched exchange in an age of empire (London, 2015). across its middle, stood squarely in the way. Alongside other international volunteers, the Irish fought and died for the pope at Perugia, Spoleto, Castelfidardo and Ancona. This book looks at post-Famine Ireland and Risorgimento Italy, considering the interplay between nationalism and religion. It examines the recruitment, motivations and experiences of the members of the Irish brigade, tells the stories of the battles they fought, and includes a list of brigade members.

(2018) 256pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-726-6 €50 / £45 / $70

The CollegeBuilding of Trinity Museum Dublin: a model of Victorian craftsmanship editors Jackson, Wyse Christine & Patrick Casey This addresses volume most the influential Victorian city in the building of use of Irish it set in the standard stone, decorative new Dublin and explores the craftsmen of native employment the eclecticism unprecedented and the of quarrying,its carvingdesign. The building, geology, architectural and design spectacular this structure created that established scholars by are explored and experts the book captures this field. in the Richly illustrated in full colour, profuse of its and the detail building of the carved polychromy sumptuous ornament. Contents: Introduction, Jackson; Christine Wyse and Patrick Casey Louise Caulfield (TCD), The Irish marble industry Museum Building; and the Tony (ind.),Hand limestone Victorian in the Kilkenny period; John Hussey (ind.), quarrying of granite The migration in west Wicklow; Christine (TCD), Casey (TCD), McParland radical polychromy; Edward The Museum Building’s The architecture Museum Building; of the Tierney Andrew (TCD), Architectural sources for Museum Building; the Wyse Jackson (TCD) Wyse Patrick and Peter Jackson (Missouri Garden), Botanical The naturalistic carvings Museum the of Building; Tierney Andrew (TCD), The and artisan O’Sheas craftsmanship in Britain and Ireland; Leila Budd (ind.), The system Museum the of ventilation Building; (U Galavan Susan Leuven), Gilbert Victorian Cockburn and Dublin’s industry;building Frederick O’Dwyer (ind.), and Ruskin and Woodward, Deane architectural conservation; Arnold (UCD), Paul The conservation Museum of the settings design, in the changes and Building; Evolving Jackson, Wyse Patrick Building; Museum of the utilization Louise Caulfield Jackson Wyse and Patrick (TCD), Appendix – The stone and marbles Museum Building. of the Christine Casey is professor in architectural historyPatrick and Wyse Jackson professor is associate School of Earth and head of the in geology on published extensively have and of TCD fellows They are both Sciences, TCD. architectural history and geology. Studies in IrishStudies Georgian silver Alison FitzGerald, editor collectors among renowned for and connoisseurs, long is increasingly Irish silver, an aspect considered as materialbeing of the past. world of the Its making, same the At much about past attitudes and use tells acquisition and behaviour. of surviving careful examination time, articles of appreciation only adds to not and craftsmanship design the participation Ireland’s also to but in international established scholars research and emerging by new with fashions. This volume, UK, and the from Ireland study advances the The across a broad range. circumstances the contributionsobjects in whichsold, silver examine made, were branches It considers and dispersed of Ireland. in Georgian specialized valued sourcing the production the and jewellery, including trade the of freedom boxes evidence and regional as of inventories and materials, value the of metals patterns and preferences. This history on the book builds on recent literature of second-hand markets, guilds and luxury and reconsider recover to goods, silver, silversmithing. Ireland’s Alison FitzGerald on the published widely is a lecturer has She in history, MU. in Georgian Dublin: Silver making, a monograph, including history of Irish silver, (London, consuming 2016),selling, and an essayIreland: catalogue in the of artcrossroads 2015). 1690–1840 (New Haven, and design, Winter 2019 format288pp large colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-799-0 €50 / £45 / $70 Summer 2019 format,320pp large full colour Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-789-1 €50 / £45 / $70 18TH- & 19TH-CENTURY STUDIES

16 18th- & 19th-Century Studies LOCAL HISTORY 17 Local History Maynooth Studies in Local History Maynooth Research Guides Raymond Gillespie, series editor for Irish Local History

Summer 2019 | Each Pbk c.64pp | €9.95 / £9.95 / $14.95 The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830–65 Waterford port and harbour, c.1815–42 : shaping the port Frances McGee Mary Breen Between 1830 and 1864, every piece of The management and development of Waterford port and harbour during a formative period in Irish property in Ireland was valued, from houses on history are explored in this book. Particular attention is paid to the relationships and interactions tiny plots of land to the great landed estates. between Waterford Corporation, the body granted control of the port and harbour under successive The work of valuation created a large volume royal charters; Waterford Chamber of Commerce, the chartered body representing merchants and of archives that recorded the occupiers of land traders; and Waterford Harbour Commissioners, the new statutory port authority established in 1816. and houses as well as details of the location, ISBN 978-1-84682-800-3 extent and quality of their property. The valuation archives date from a period when The Kirwan murder case, 1852: a glimpse of the Irish Protestant middle few sources cover the whole country and are a rich resource for research ranging from family class in the mid-nineteenth century history to socio-economic study. The guide Suzanne Leeson will assist researchers in understanding these complex documents. This book relates the story of the controversial trial, conviction and imprisonment of William Burke Kirwan, a Dublin artist, for the murder of his wife, Sarah, in 1852. His trial and the extensive and ‘The archives of the valuation of Ireland divisive social commentary it provoked provide a representation of the strata of society to which he provides a very readable and well-illustrated belonged, the Protestant middle class of the mid-nineteenth century, allowing an examination of many guide to what many see as a quite difficult of the attitudes and values that they subscribed to. resource to navigate and understand. The ISBN 978-1-84682-801-0 enormous significance of these archives is amplified by the loss of other early nineteenth- century sources in the fire at the Public Records John Ferrall: Master of Sligo Workhouse, 1852–66 Office […] Frances McGee’s excellent guide Fergus O’Ferrall should be on the top of your reading list’, Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette. This case study provides the first account to focus on the career and work of a master of an Irish workhouse. It explores the role of a master in respect of issue such as management, governance and (2018) 242pp colour ills the provision for the poor in post-Famine Ireland during the fourteen-year period when John Ferrall served as Master of Sligo Workhouse. It illuminates how the poor-law system evolved in terms of Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-136-3 medical and other services in the 1850s and 1860s despite the limitations laid down for the system €19.95/£17.95/$29.95 in law and the ineffective governance provided by the annually elected Sligo Poor Law Boards of Guardians and the detailed regulations of the remote Poor Law Commissioners in Dublin. ISBN 978-1-84682-803-4 Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600 Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798–1803 Tadhg O’Keeffe Kerron Ó Luain ‘It is hard to exaggerate the utility of this book for the student of Irish architectural history. The story of the United Irish rebellions in a hitherto quiet corner of south-west County Dublin is a story It is a wonderful addition to the invaluable of personal resentments fuelled by the spread of radical republican ideology, followed by a violent Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local attempt at altering the social and political status quo. This book focuses on Rathcoole society between History of which this volume is number 18 in the years 1798 and 1803 and argues that, rather than agrarian or sectarian tensions, it was primarily the series’, Michael O’Neill, Irish Archives. United Irish politicization and organization that led to the outbreak of rebellion in the locality. ISBN 978-1-84682-804-1 (2015) 328pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-500-2 Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875 Special Price €9.95 / £8.95 / $14.95 Oliver Whelan

The new Protestant settlement in the lordship of Clonmore, centred around Hacketstown, proved For details of other titles in this series visit our resilient to the 1641 rebellion and attracted investment, including by Dublin bureaucrats and website. landed and military figures. Entrepreneurial Catholics turned to trade in response to the penal laws. Unusually, in the period 1852–74 most leaseholders, including Catholics, achieved security of tenure, subject to fixed rents. In 1874–5, Henry Parnell (brother of Charles Stewart), owner of the lordship, had the Landed Estates Court auction its heavily encumbered 13,000 acres which were purchased, piecemeal, mainly by large-scale local landowners, sitting tenants and Dublin-based professionals. ISBN 978-1-84682-805-8 65 / £55 / $84.50 50 / £45 / $70 Recently published Recently € € Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825: useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment Manley Keith of the is for improvement the ‘Reading and John Locke, wrote understanding’, fostered sentiment this idea of ‘mutual the and early eighteenth in the improvement’ centuries.nineteenth It underpinned the societies reading of ruralspread workers’ in Ulster and urban middle-class private subscription libraries Anglo-Irish the among Catholics, and educated the by paralleled growth libraries of commercial circulating fiction. on light concentrated that This book rise the explains of these libraries context in the times,of their a substantial appendix with address, by name, date identifiesthem that and type, where and, bibliographical with necessary, references. archival (2018) 248pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-717-4 Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850 editor Boran, Elizabethanne This world of book explores the volume collecting in early modern and Britain. Ireland modalities of collecting the It investigates manuscripttexts, and printed, and draws both attention wider impact the to European of the habits reading and on changing book trade availabilityof books. modern Early book collectors books for a variety bought of reasons. studies case combining of institutional and By book collectorsprivate essays the only not individual collectionsdemonstrate how came and public private both but also how being, into Book collections interacted each with other. collecting, a solitary far from being exercise, of Republic expanding dependent on the was Letters. The essays insights offer therefore vital communal the early world of the into modern book trade. (2018) 286pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-737-2 Summer 2019 288pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-786-0 €50 / £45 / $70 Monksgrange: portrait of an Irish house and family, 1769–1969 Philip Bull Philip AscendancyA County twice intervention rebel house saved by in Wexford story a compelling tells of Irish history Monksgrange 1798 and 1922, from twentieth to centuries. ordinary. eighteenth Itsthe One not people were was another against slavery had fought landlord American in the Civil War, reformer in an agricultural and senator was and another a novelist independent Irishthe The state. Ireland eminent historian of medieval in created and a beautiful was garden G.H. Orpen Monksgrange, at lived Artsthe and Crafts style. Country The furniture made for Dublin’s was Shop Cisterciansand a carp the thirteenth in the there, pool built by century still attests property’s the to much earlier history. This book illuminates important aspects of Irish history and talented this and chronicles how family experienced and survivedunconventional vicissitudes of many the twoIrish centuries. life over house continues A postscript the to how shows role in contemporaryplay a positive Irish life. politics of the and nationalism: of Land, author Philip Bull is the a study (Dublin,Irish land question 1996). He is adjunct professor in history La at Centre the for at Melbourne the research and an associate fellow U, Trobe of HistoricStudy Irish Houses and Estates MU. at 18TH- & 19TH-CENTURY STUDIES

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Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain Terence Dooley, Maeve O’Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors

In this volume of essays, the authors present a spectrum of female house owners, residents Summer 2019 and caretakers who were far more than bit players in the histories of families and 320pp ills big houses. The women featuring in these Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-806-5 essays were all agents in their own destinies, taking charge of their lives (as much as was €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 possible within a repressive society), as well as influencing the lives of others. They were committed to organizing households, Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house supervising architects and builders, raising families, mobilizing political support, acquiring Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors culinary expertise, assisting husbands or sons, writing fiction, travelling overseas, and, in one Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give instance, undoing a late husband’s work. nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’ (2018) 296pp ills Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-647-4 hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with the hosting of house parties, €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 soirees and balls. Pastimes included photography, painting, astronomy and taxidermy. Outdoors the parkland was used for a variety of sporting activities including archery, cricket, croquet and shooting, as well as local The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, sports events, and beyond the demesne activities included hunting, horse America, Australia and New racing and yachting. In Ireland demesne lands were developed as golf Zealand, 1807–1922 courses and estates offered land to the nationalist-dominated Gaelic Ann Power Athletic Association for football and hurling. This history of the Brigidines, formally known This volume provides fresh and original insights into how leisure and as the Sisters of St Brigid, provides a detailed and fascinating account of the congregation sport underpinned the social hierarchy of country houses and their and its mission to the rural communities of local communities in Ireland and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand. centuries. It compares the religious order to similar female congregations, and throws new light on Contributors include: Kerry Bristol (U Leeds); Philip Bull (La Trobe U, Bishop Daniel Delany of Kildare and Leighlin Melbourne); Anne Casement (ind.); Oliver Cox, (U Oxford); Brian Griffin who founded the Brigidines in 1807. His motto – strength and gentleness – became the (Bath Spa U); Ian d’Alton (TCD); Terence Dooley (MU); Tom Hunt (de hallmark of Brigidine practice and service. This Montfort U, Leicester); Antonio Laurence-Allen (National Trust Scotland); book highlights the lives, courage and spirit Tony McCarthy (MU); Ciarán Reilly (MU); Einion Thomas (Bangor U); Annie of adventure of many sisters, the hardships Tindley (U Newcastle); Allen Warren (U York). they endured, hidden from the public eye, and their significant achievements in education. It Terence Dooley is director of the Centre for Historic Irish Houses and contributes not only to a greater understanding Estates, MU. Christopher Ridgway is curator at Castle Howard in of the religious life but also is an appreciation of the role and adaptability of female religious Yorkshire. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also contains a prosopography of around 700 nuns (1807–1922).

(2018) 462pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-739-6 €60 / £55 / $80 Directory of historic Dublin guilds (2nd ed.) editors Mary Refaussé, Clark & Raymond directory this First Phillimore Prize, and winner of the published in 1993, is re-issued in format,an expanded full with colour illustrations A must-have for throughout. local and family history. Mary Clark Dublin City is the Archivist. Refaussé is formerly Raymond librarian and Church Body Library. archivist, Representative Vindicating Dublin: the story behind the controversial dissolution of the Corporation in 1924 Aodh Quinlivan on 20 May 1924, government State Free the dissolved by Dublin Corporation was an inquiryfollowing one prominent historian, to According Mansion House. in the the some credence to give and seemed ‘to clear-cut not dissolve it was decision to the of local determined reduce autonomy the to was government Cosgrave the that belief This first a is the into an insight and provides authorities’. topic intriguing book on this episode. and far-reaching controversial UCC. is director Quinlivan Governance, Aodh Centre of the for Local and Regional The Little from disastrous resulted of 1880 harvest Famine failures late in the in Ireland and poverty1870s. Hunger country the throughout evident were and a rapid response loss catastrophic of the a repeat occurred of life that during prevent the needed to was set up the Dwyer 1840s. of the Edmund Famine TheGreat of Dublin, Gray, mayor lord which collected from IrishMansion House Fund, money emigrants in Britain, America, Canada and Australia. distributed The then 836 local committees, to relief Fund in based every county This of Ireland. selection of documents from Dublin City Library & Archive story the tells Little of the who suffered of those words in the Famine who and those succoured. David is an archivist O’Regan and barrister. The 1880 Fund, Mansion House editor O’Regan, David Archives of the Tholsell Court, Dublin & Bridget Barnard McCormack, editors Toby The Tholsell Court established for settlement the was of small debts, (lord) the with and sheriffs mayor The of Dublin presiding. surviving City in Dublin records, held Library are in and century, mid-eighteenth the to early from the seventeenth range & Archive, secretary hand. This Bridget McCormack these transcript by records accessible, makes them. Barnard contextualizes introductionwhile the Toby by Barnard in historyemeritus is FBA fellow Hertford at Toby Oxford. Bridget College, palaeographers.McCormack leading is one of Ireland’s (prev. announced) (prev. Winter 2019 100pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-5-2 / $39.95 €25 / £19.95 (prev. announced) Autumn 2019 (prev. 150pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-8-3 / $39.95 €25 / £19.95 (prev. announced) Autumn 2019 (prev. 200pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-3-8 €55 / £50 / $70 (prev. announced) Summer 2019 (prev. 576pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-7-6 €55 / £50 / $70 DUBLIN CITYDUBLIN SERIES COUNCIL

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The goldsmiths of Dublin: six Dublin City Council and the 1916 The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin centuries of achievement Rising Michael English Douglas Bennett John Gibney, editor ‘This is a gorgeous book – a wonderful blend of ‘A welcome addition to a series which focuses ‘Essential reading for all who want to have a erudite but lightly rendered text and well-chosen on the history of the city’s urban landscape […] fuller understanding of the tumultuous events illustrations. The production values are of the The author of this volume […] is synonymous that occurred in our capital city a hundred years highest as we have come to expect in this series’, with the study of Ireland’s precious metal trade ago […] Following an insightful introduction by Séamas Ó Maitiú, Dublin Historical Record. […] One of the strengths of this book is the lively the editor, the book is arranged into two sections, detail, often drawn from manuscript sources, of part I dealing with “Dublin City Council: the (2016) 272pp large format, full colour Dublin’s politics, at guild, civic, and national level Elected Members and the 1916 Rising” and part Pbk ISBN 978-1-907002-29-8 […] Bennett deftly employes engaging examples 2 focusing on “Dublin Corporation Employees and to remind the reader of the very human stories Institutions in the 1916 Rising”, with an appendix Special Price €9.95 / £8.95 / $19.95 behind the corporate structure of the goldsmiths’ with biographical notes on the staff involved in the guild […] Bennett is to be commended for this Rising. The book is lavishly illustrated […] The level fascinating survey of the last surviving trade guild of detail is impressive’, Michael Merrigan, Ireland’s The Mansion House, Dublin: 300 in Dublin’, Alison FitzGerald, Irish Arts Review. Genealogical Gazette. years of history and hospitality Mary Clark, editor 2018 106pp (2016) 336pp colour ills

Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-6-9 Hbk ISBN 978-1-907002-33-5 This is the first major work on the Mansion House and includes essays on its history, architecture and €25 / £19.95 / $39.95 €45 / £40 / $74.50 antique furnishings. Pbk ISBN 978-1-907002-34-2 (2015) 180pp large format, colour ills €24.95 / £19.95 / $39.95 Richmond Barracks 1916: ‘We Hbk ISBN 978-1-907002-19-9 were there’ – 77 women of the €35 / £29.95 / $45 Easter Rising Bridges of Dublin: the remarkable Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis Pbk ISBN 978-1-907002-20-5 story of Dublin’s Liffey bridges €25 / £19.95 / $39.95 ‘This book is the first on the subject to reveal that Annette Black & Michael B. Barry quite a large proportion – perhaps the majority – of women who took part in the Easter Rising of 1916 ‘Excellent illustrations accompany the fascinatingly came from Dublin’s working class. Mary McAuliffe informative text’, Irish Times. Exercise of authority: surveyor and Liz Gillis focus on the 77 women arrested after ‘The book covers 24 structures in detail, every span Thomas Owen and the paving, the Rising who were brought to Richmond Barracks across the Liffey from Lucan Bridge to the sea. cleansing and lighting of Georgian in Inchicore before being dispatched to other jails in Each bridge is documented with a large 2-page Dublin the city [… This book’s] value will extend far beyond photo […] and a range of other images including Finnian Ó Cionnaith the decade of commemorations (1913–1923) in drawings, historical paintings and etchings, and Ireland, and its wider significance for the history old photography. More recent structures are ‘This book is a very welcome addition to the of women in political activism will ensure its often accompanied by photographs taken during social and planning history of Dublin […] One permanence on bookshelves and reading lists […] construction. The associated text provides not just a of the most appealing aspects of this book is A fitting testament to [Rosie Hackett] and to women history of each bridge, or the stories associated with that it hides its erudition with style. Although it like her’, Cercles. it, but something of a history of Dublin and wider has been researched and written to the highest academic standards, it bears its learning lightly. ‘Arguably one of the great success stories of the Ireland […] Overall, this is a very impressive book, To a large degree, it reads like a thriller; indeed, 1916 commemorations has been how the story not only for students of Dublin’s architectural and a thriller, which once started, is very hard to put of the women involved has been significantly engineering history, but for anyone with an interest down [… T]his book can be highly recommended addressed. One of the best examples is Richmond in bridges’, The Happy Pontist. for its scholarship, its spritely readability and Barracks 1916 […] along with chapters on the (2015) 256pp large format, full colour its wonderful insights into the murky world of actual fighting, told from the viewpoint of the Georgian Dublin’, Muiris de Buitléir, IESH. women participants, the authors provide a Hbk ISBN 978-1-907002-25-0 detailed biography of each of the 77’, Joe Culley, €35 / £30 / $65 (2016) 160pp colour ills History Ireland. Pbk ISBN 978-1-907002-21-2 Hbk ISBN 978-1-907002-23-6 (2016) 288pp ills €25 / £19.95 / $39.95 €29.95 / £24.95 / $45 Pbk ISBN 978-1-907002-32-8 Pbk 978-1-907002-30-4 €24.95 / £19.95 / $39.95 €19.95 / £17.50 / $35

John Burke The history period 1912–23 in the new to is one of transition of Roscommon old economicpolitical allegiances desires. while retaining Almost wholly and sustain county’s the fuel local the economy to dependent on agriculture Roscommon’s to backdrop ever-present the fight for the land was people, leadership had provided in that that organization 1912 the recent history.By fight Irish – the Parliamentary Party Irish of achieving home cusp on the – was settle to potential land issue. the the The have to need believed rule, a measure and Irish join the Volunteers in Roscommon thousands protect bill saw to the rule anti-home to opposition proclaim led their unionists. The War First World of home rule Irish to suspension the and a call MPs forto followers by their support wartime a combination of increasing British effort. the war However, toleration the as prices, issues land food production, well as inadequate ongoing of partition 1916 local draconian MPs and the British Easter by response to reassess to political their allegiance. Sensationally, in Roscommon caused many This proved elected first the MP. Roscommon Féin-backed Sinn in February 1917, Irish step demise of the in the a decisive Parliamentary Party success and the part fight for the land as the which reinvigorated Féin, of itsof Sinn efforts for a up arms took men against British the pursue to Roscommon republic. In 1919, when years later three on one another turn weapons aims, only to the Féin Sinn In tracing conflict civil war. led to continued the pursuit Irish of the Republic over careful historythe Burke’s during these years of instability, of Roscommon and accessibleresearch produced a comprehensive has study illuminates that and continuities changes defined the that and explains period. the holds a PhD in historyJohn Burke works, he is the from NUIG. other Among (Dublin, war and civil 2015). 1900–1923: politics, of Athlone, revolution author Roscommon This first is the account experience of County of the comprehensive Louth’s revolutionary period a county (1912–23), revealing a strong industrial with faced that serious base from declining and agricultural stemming challenges large-scalepopulation, poverty. Although and extensive unemployment political activists nationalist,overwhelmingly Louth’s bitterlywere divided until the split TheWar in 1913. First World Irish of the foundation the Volunteers The summer 1914, these majority in late and, Volunteers. Redmond sided with and flags off flying, bands playing with saw comrades volunteers, of their many which war, opposed the The Irish Volunteers, War. First fight in the to World part in number but took remained few As 1916 Rising. in the militancy the of IRA the 1916 faded, criticized for inactivity widely its in Louth relative was during political control in struggled gain Féin of Independence to Sinn while War the county the central to 1922, was facethe strong of nationalist By opposition. Northern destabilize to campaign which Ireland, government’s Provisional the Louth experienced extensive atrocities.witnessed During Civil the War, many and ambushes, streetfighting, assassinations, executions including violence, restored, from a decadehouse burnings. of Louth emerged When peace was off cut partition by instability from its hinterland natural more divided ever, than an uncertain and facing future. in Ulster, I War holds a PhD in history Hall Donal of World author and is the from MU, politics 1914–1920 (Dublin, in Countyand nationalist Louth, 2005). Louth Donal Hall (Joost Augusteijn), Antrim (Brian Feeney)Kildare and (Seamus Cullen). Forthcoming in the series: Mayo Spring 2019 (previously announced) 192pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-660-3 / $29.50 / £17.95 €19.95 Autumn 2019 192pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-807-2 / $29.50 / £17.95 €19.95 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES The 1912 –23 Irish Revolution, series editors Ó Corráin, Dáithí & Mary Ann Lyons

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The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 Also recently published 20th-Century Studies Mary Ann Lyons & Dáithí Ó Corráin, series editors

Family histories of the Irish Revolution Ciara Boylan, Sarah-Anne Buckley & Pat Dolan, editors

‘A must for all with an interest in the period [… focusing] on individuals and how they are Each Pbk c.192pp ills remembered by their families. But these are not €19.95 / £17.95 / $29.50 simply family histories and the structure of the volume weaves together key themes, including gender, memory, violence, reconciliation and Derry family history […] This volume will inspire and encourage others to continue this exciting Adrian Grant journey of discovery, and, in many cases, Based on newly released sources, this book makes a vital contribution to the historiography of Ulster rediscovery, of our “shared memory”, that during the revolutionary period. ISBN 978-1-84682-659-7 (2018). indirect memory, as the President explained [in his foreword], is “a memory of memory – which requires communication and seeks to integrate Limerick into one version the different perspectives of John O’Callaghan those who might have directly remembered a given episode”. The editors and contributors Limerick was a key social, political and military battleground during the Irish revolution of 1912–23. have paved the way for others’, Ireland’s By examining a wide range of contemporary sources, O’Callaghan reveals what life was like for people Genealogical Gazette. from all sectors of Limerick society during these turbulent years. ISBN 978-1-84682-742-6 (2018). (2018) 240pp ills Monaghan PBk ISBN 978-1-84682-682-5 Terence Dooley €24.95 / £19.95 / $35 ‘A clear-eyed commitment to uncovering the experience of revolution in Monaghan, however messy or disillusioning, informs Dooley’s general approach [… there is] rich, but always accessibly presented scholarship, to be found within this superb county study. In sum, Dooley’s book is a feast, a triumph, Winning the vote for women: and a treat’, Tim Wilson, Irish Literary Supplement. ISBN 978-1-84682-616-0 (2017). the Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland Waterford Louise Ryan Pat McCarthy ‘As Ryan demonstrates, the [Irish Citizen] ‘Pat McCarthy offers an impressively comprehensive picture, with chapters on a scene-setting cross- paper’s importance lies in its dismantling of the section of Waterford’s economy and society in 1912, the impact of war and rebellion, the rise of Sinn myth that Irish women have been secondary Féin, the War of Independence, the Anglo-Irish treaty, the Civil War, and the sum of it all as the dust characters in the story of their own lives. In light settled on the Free State in 1923’, Emmet O’Connor, Saothar. ISBN 978-1-84682-410-4 (2015). of recent events in Ireland, this reissue could hardly be more timely’, Tess Davidson, TLS.

Tyrone (2018) 236pp ills Fergal McCluskey Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-701-3 ‘This book sets a high standard for the county histories to follow and more than meets the aims of the €19.95 / £18.95 / $29.95 editors to deal with not only the events of the period (political and military) but to look at the labour movement, the role of women and the class politics which McCluskey shows to be very important’, Eoin Magennis, Seanchas Ard Mhacha. ISBN 978-1-84682-300-8 (2014). The Irish Volunteers, 1913–19: a history Sligo Daithí Ó Corráin Michael Farry This is the first authoritative history of ‘Michael Farry’s study is admirably sourced, a balanced and sober assessment of revolutionary the Irish Volunteers from its inception in politics and violence in his native county’, Barry McLoughlin, Books Ireland. ISBN 978-1-84682-302-2 November 1913 to its rebranding as the (2012). IRA in 1919.

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Bodenstown revisited: the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, its monuments and its pilgrimages C.J. Woods Spring 2019 ‘Outstanding […] a triumph of historical 176pp ills documentation’, Liam Kenny, Leinster Leader.

Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-784-6 ‘[T]his exhaustively documented survey of the €19.95 / £17.50 / $29.95 political composition and fluctuating scale of the annual pilgrimages to Tone’s grave, the changing emphases of the speeches, Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916: and the physical evolution of the memorial itself, does serve as a remarkably sensitive Anzacs and the Rising barograph of the ebb and flow, of the intimate Rory Sweetman and internecine fortunes, of nationalist and republican movements on this island’, Jim Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 Smyth, Irish Times. as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective (2018) 288pp ills counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. The College is usually Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-738-9 mentioned in the context of the rebels’ alleged failure to attempt its capture, and its co-option as a barracks in the later stages of the rebellion. Most €50 / £45 / $70 commentators march past Trinity as determinedly as did the Irish Citizen Army on its way to St Stephen’s Green, with at most a sideways glance The Redmonds and Waterford: at what one rebel referred to as the intellectual centre of West Britonism. a political dynasty, 1891–1952 Still more neglected are the men who helped to save Trinity from potential Pat McCarthy disaster at a time when it was virtually defenceless. This book reveals how ‘History is often written by the victors, and John five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, Redmond was not one of them. Now 100 years provided a vital shield to protect Trinity from capture. Had the College later, there is a more balanced view of his work fallen to the surprise attack launched on it by the rebels at midnight on for Ireland and for his constituency, too. Dr Pat McCarthy achieves that well in his book’, Easter Monday, its 324th year may well have been its last; nothing less Munster Express. than heavy and prolonged artillery fire would have sufficed to defeat the occupiers. Letters written home by the New Zealanders give fresh insight (2018) 246pp ills into important aspects of the insurrection and allow us to test some Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-703-7 controversial claims against both Trinity’s own record and the various rebel €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 accounts. More importantly, they help to answer questions left unasked in previous studies: how close did Trinity come to being a central battleground Ireland, 1916–2016: the promise in the Rising? How and why did it escape this grisly fate? And – not least – and challenge of national what might have happened but for the timely intervention of the colonial sovereignty troops? Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 puts this neglected Tom Boylan, Nicholas Canny & Mary episode into an imperial context, with Dublin as a theatre of battle in a Harris, editors global war. ‘Academically rigorous, accessible and Rory Sweetman is a Kildare-born New Zealander who holds history frequently irreverent and lively. This is down to the calibre of the six contributors, all of whom degrees from TCD and Cambridge U. He is the author of Bishop in the dock: are of Irish birth or descent and experienced the sedition trial of James Liston in New Zealand (Dublin, 2007), which won public intellectuals’, Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish the Sir Keith Sinclair Prize for History. Times.

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The making of inequality in the Irish Free State, 20th-Century Studies 1922–37: women, power and gender ideology Maryann Gialanella Valiulis

How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916 with its promise of equality and universal citizenship to the conservative Constitution of 1937, which allowed for only a domestic identity for women? This book is a study of that journey, an overview of how specific pieces of legislation worked together to create an unequal state. Through an analysis of this legislation, which restricted women’s political and economic rights, and the gender ideology it revealed, this book looks at how the promise of the revolution was thwarted and denied. In so doing, it examines the roles of women and women’s organizations in this journey from equality to inequality and how women’s citizenship was conceptualized.

The triumph of conservatism was the result of a myriad of circumstances, the treaty that ended the Anglo-Irish War, the Civil War, and the influence of the Catholic church. Perhaps most significant was the persistence of patriarchy, which ensured the temporary success of a Catholic church-controlled, male- dominated, traditional society in which women’s quest for unfettered citizenship and a free and equal role in the public sphere was hindered and obstructed. From this unfinished revolution, however, emerged a vibrant twentieth-century Autumn 2019 feminist movement that contributed to an evolving, liberal democratic state. 224pp Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-792-1 Maryann Gialanella Valiulis is a fellow emerita of TCD. She was director of the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, TCD, from 1994 to 2012. Valiulis €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 is the author of the award-winning biography of Richard Mulcahy, Portrait of a revolutionary (Dublin, 1992). She has published extensively in Irish history, including editing The Irish Journal of Feminist Studies.

The Glynns of Kilrush, County Clare, 1811–1940: a family business in changing times Paul O’Brien

This book examines the fortunes of a provincial, entrepreneurial family, the Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, who came to local prominence in the early years of the nineteenth century. It explores their networking strategies and acumen, and traces the rapid expansion of their business activity from small-scale corn millers to proprietors of several enterprises including shipping concerns and railways.

The book places the Glynn family and their businesses within the wider context of networks developing between the urban, provincial and metropolitan industrial class, networks that helped shape Irish society and its economy in the long nineteenth century. It discusses the family primarily from a social point of view, while also exploring their business and trade enterprises. The book addresses the issue of middle-class identity, examining the ways in which it was constructed and represented to the wider community. It also explores the mechanisms used by the middle classes to establish and maintain their economic, social and cultural hegemony, and how these were reproduced down the Glynn generations.

Paul O’Brien received his doctorate from the Department of History at Mary I., Summer 2019 where he lectures in the Academic Learning Centre. In 2016, he was a research 224pp ills fellow at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. He is a recipient of the Military Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-776-1 Heritage Trust of Ireland award for his research into recruitment practices during the First World War. €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 55 / £50 / $74.50 55 / £50 / $74.50 € € Juries in Ireland: laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century Niamh Howlin Shortlisted (Dublin for DSBA Bar Solicitors’ 2018. Award Association) Year Book of the Law presents ‘Niamh Howlin a comprehensive nineteenth-century institution’s of the view political the out both history. skilfully She draws questions which are so often heart the at of points detailed analyses and the jury, of the of procedure which can only really be grasped a painstaking process researchby of archival […] book […] This excellent be of interest would or jury studying anyone to systems generally, aspect of nineteenth- any studying anyone to century trialprocesses country in any which Kevin used some variety common of the law’, . Studies Irish Journal of Legal Crosby, 320pp colour ills (2017) Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-621-4 Recently published Recently William The Molyneux’s case of acts being bound by Ireland’s of parliament Stated in England, editor Kelly, Hyde Patrick Irish most the as celebrated political Regarded William published before 1801, pamphlet was (1698) stated of Ireland, Case Molyneux’s written did statutes English that demonstrate to had become force of they not until in Ireland been re-enacted Irish the parliament. by all For precedents mass of legal its The’s Case fame, contradictoryand seemingly arguments for elucidation requires it a work that make Thispresents edition new modernthe reader. manuscripts on the a critical based text, of with together library, TCD The in the Case explanatory and a re-examination notes, of the sources and the on which historical background The arguments, set in TheMolyneux Case drew. out in a form a legal presenting to analogous in court,case be a significant to are shown contemporary the response to pamphlet on Irish exportsdebate woollen legal and the Irish of the competence rather house of lords, stand-alone the than book has the publication often as. been treated (2018) 342pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-741-9 (prev. announced) Summer 2018 (prev. 320pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-740-2 €55 / £50 / $74.50 Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present editors & Thomas Mohr, Crooks Peter CartaMagna most the is among famous documents history in the of the first the being with credited world, effective check in writingon arbitrary, The fame of Magna oppressive on tyranny. and unjust rule word, – in a its in globe Carta the girdle Britain, came to and later England, as spread This first is the importance volume the examine to in the of Ireland power. story Carta’s of Magna dissemination. centuries Four Carta before Magna acrosscrossed Irish the Atlantic, the it had already been implanted Sea. A boy-king name of the 1216 in the issued in November charter, of the version English the Henry to where it became fundamental Ireland, sent to was III, survives that in Ireland tradition common law present. the to This volume of a conference proceedings – the marking anniversary 800th the of the transmission Carta of Magna presented paradoxes – explores the Ireland to contested all the Carta of Magna above reception the by Irish into law, idea of ‘liberty’ Contributors legal, in Ireland. the examine developed that political and polemical Carta uses which Magna to put from the was thirteenth its as century twentieth- well twenty-first-century and as onwards, presence a living as in contemporary The also volume invocations Irish law. Carta Magna of the and translation edition includes a new Hibernie (‘The CharterGreat of Ireland’) 1216 issue of the – Carta of Magna an adaptation in 1922. destroyed which was Irish Book of the Exchequer, found Red in the Contributors: Sparky (QUB), Booker Brand (U Oxford), Paul Ian Campbell (QUB), (UCL/UCD), Coleman Dennehy Seán Duffy (TCD), Adrian Empey (Church Historical of Ireland Society), (TCD), Geoghegan Patrick James Kelly (DCU), (DCU), Colum Kenny John Larkin (Attorney General for Northern Ireland), SC. Ruane Bláthna of the and a fellow history CrooksPeter is a lecturer in medieval TCD, at Historical of The He is co-editor Geraldines and medieval Society. Royal (Dublin, 2016). of a myth Ireland: making the Thomas Mohr is a lecturer He is honorary UCD. secretary School the of Law, at Irish of the Legal History Privy the Society Council Treaty: of the of Guardian author and the (Dublin, and Irishappeal sovereignty 2016). IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY LEGALIRISH HISTORY SERIES

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The life and times of Arthur Browne in Ireland and America, 1756– 1805: civil law and civil liberties Joseph C. Sweeney

‘An eminently readable and interesting book. The author is to be commended for putting Autumn 2019 Arthur Browne back in his rightful place at the 256pp ills heart of late-eighteenth-century Irish politics and society as a relentless pursuer of principled Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-811-9 action in the Irish parliament in its final €55 / £50 / $74.50 declining years and as a highly intelligent and significant legal mind’, Charles Ivar McGrath, Irish Jurist.

Irish speakers, interpreters and the courts, 1754–1921 (2017) 336pp colour ills Mary Phelan Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-622-1

The extent and duration of interpreter provision for Irish speakers appearing €55 / £50 / $74.50 in court in the long nineteenth century have long been a conundrum. In 1737 the Administration of Justice (Language) Act stipulated that all legal Guardian of the Treaty: the proceedings in Ireland should take place in English, thus placing Irish Privy Council appeal and Irish speakers at a huge disadvantage, obliging them to communicate through sovereignty others, and treating them as foreigners in their own country. Gradually, over Thomas Mohr time, legislation was passed to allow the grand juries, forerunners of county ‘In this impressive and thoughtful book, Mohr councils, to employ salaried interpreters. Drawing on extensive research on charts the role that the Judicial Committee of grand jury records held at national and local level, supplemented by records the Privy Council played in the Irish Free State from 1922 until the abolition of the Irish Privy of correspondence with the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle, this Council appeal in 1935 […] In Guardian of the book provides definitive answers on where, when, and until when, Irish- Treaty, Mohr has created an accessible and language court interpreters were employed. Contemporaneous newspaper interesting volume that will surely consolidate court reports are used to illustrate how exactly the system worked in his status as one of the key figures in Irish practice and to explore official, primarily negative, attitudes towards Irish constitutional and legal history’, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Supreme Court of the United speakers. The famous Maamtrasna murders trials, where, most unusually Kingdom, The Cambridge Law Journal. for such a serious case, a police constable acted as court interpreter, are discussed. The book explains the appointment process for interpreters, ‘Thomas Mohr’s book is a wide-ranging exploration of how the legal and political discusses ethical issues that arose in court, and includes microhistories of conundrum over sovereignty created by article some 90 interpreters. 66 was approached on both sides of the Irish Sea, the tensions that it gave rise to, and how Mary Phelan is a lecturer at the School of Applied Language and it was ultimately resolved under Irish law and Intercultural Studies, DCU. Her published works relate mainly to British law […] Dr Mohr’s book is the fruit of contemporary interpreter provision and translation. many years of archival research and study in Ireland, Britain and Canada. It can be warmly recommended’, Daire Hogan, Law Society Gazette.

(2016) 222pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-587-3 €50 / £45 / $70 Law in seventeenth-century and revolution Ireland editor Coleman A. Dennehy, the violence throughout spread in mid-Ulster erupted that In October 1641, neither for a decade. and lasted more than The was whole kingdom war rest it out of step the with unpredictable Stuart the of nor was or kingdoms, As particularly all wars, with indeed Europe generally. and multi-national the complex Irish the and 1650s had many 1640s of the multi-denominational, wars community system legal legal and the the played causes.and interrelated Law, conflict of the origins role in the a vital development the and took that in Ireland part becoming to kingdom it from a dependent of a republican commonwealth. Lawyerspart a fundamental played also return and political in the legal the of ‘normality’ 1660s. in the This collection of essays was law the considers how part revolutionary the shaped by it was process of this extent what and to period. of the developments These essays arise from a conference in 2014 held auspices under the of the Dublin, Bank of Ireland, House of Lords the in the at Irish History Legal Society. Coleman Carroll, John Cunningham, Stephen Contributors Carpenter, : Andrew Bríd Aran McArdle, Malone, Neasa Colum Johnston, Kenny, Neil A. Dennehy, Jennifer and Wells. Philip Walsh JessMcGrath, Velona, Coleman A. is a Humanities (UCD) Institute Dennehy research and a associate UCL and U Vienna. at taught having MarieformerSkłodowska-Curie IRC fellow, articles many to In addition collection, he published an edited and chapters, (London, Ireland 2008) The Irish and also a monograph parliament,Restoration forthcoming).1613–89 (Manchester, The operations of the Irish of Commons, House 1613–48 Bríd McGrath This first is the account operational Irish the of House of Commons early in the Stuart in early period, of immense change a time modern when the Ireland, structuresparliament’s established would in a manner that were and operations Act the endure until of Union. This book describes structures, the and operations culture personnel, powers, Irish house of the parliament, electoral including lower of the practice, the process,legislative economics of parliaments, costs, including and MPs’ taxation House the individual MPs’ and collective government, with wages, relationships parliament. constituents, English and the of Lords own It and their crown the parliament, the itsalso explores how during personnel the and work changed deputies of lord Arthurgovernment Chichester Thomas and Wentworth and during period the Confederation of the of Kilkenny. authorityBríd McGrath is an acknowledged on early modern Irish parliaments number of articles of a large author the and towns, on early and chapters Book of the of The Minute modern editor and the civic governance state and 1608–1649 (Dublin, of Clonmel, Corporation 2006), Acts of Corporation of the Letterbook of the Clarke, Aidan with 1623–1669 (Dublin, and, Coleraine, 2017) earl of Kildare (Dublin, 16th of George, 2013). IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY LEGALIRISH HISTORY SERIES Autumn 2019 320pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-813-3 €55 / £50 / $74.50 Summer 2019 320pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-814-0 €55 / £50 / $74.50

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More than concrete blocks: vol. 1: 1900–1940: Dublin city’s twentieth- century buildings and their stories Ellen Rowley, editor

‘This book includes much original research, meticulously documented, and it is the Spring 2019 (previously announced) bringing together of these key works in their architectural, political and social context that 480pp full colour makes such illuminating reading […] Roll on the Pbk ISBN 978-1-902703-45-9 next two volumes’, Karen Latimer, Perspective.

€24.95 / £22.95 / $39.95 (2016) 368pp full colour Pbk ISBN 978-1-902703-44-2 More than concrete blocks: vol. 2: 1940–72: Dublin €24.95 / £22.95 / $39.95 city’s twentieth-century buildings and their stories Ellen Rowley, editor The building site in eighteenth- century Ireland This three-volume series of architectural history books is abundantly Arthur Gibney illustrated and accessibly written for the general reader. Full of new Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors research, photography and previously unseen archive images and drawings, ‘It does not take long to realise that the real these books unpack the history of Dublin’s architecture during the twentieth joy of this book is its focus. It is a spirited century by presenting both an overview and more detailed examinations and descriptive narrative of the mechanics of of a rich array of buildings. Chronologically organized, they are simple and building [...] Indeed, it is Gibney’s appreciation of the human skills needed to erect complicated colourful surveys of Dublin’s built fabric during the period. This series was structures and the way that various trades commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office with UCD. connect in the process that helps lead the reader expertly through the subject’, Paul Volume 2 explores Dublin’s architectural history from 1940 to 1972. There Holden, Architectural History. are 36 case studies, markedly mixed in terms of building type and public awareness, from city-centre schools to the nation’s bus station (Busáras); (2017) 296pp large format, colour ills from a suburban Catholic church and flat schemes to radical office Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-638-2 buildings. It covers the middle of the twentieth century, including the largely €35 / £30 / $50 overlooked 1940s and 1950s. It presents a contentious built history that saw the not-always-welcome rise of architectural modernism, at the service The country house and the Great of a modernizing Ireland. War: Irish and British experiences Contributors: Natalie de Róiste, Merlo Kelly, Shane O’Toole, Carole Pollard Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors and Ellen Rowley, photography by Paul Tierney. ‘This volume is a useful contribution to the exploration and assessment of the impact of the First World War in the context of the country house’, Lorraine Bourke, Irish Arts Review.

(2016) 208pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-617-7 €24.95 / £22.95 / $39.95 Also available The history and heritage of St Hospital, Dublin James’s & Mary Coakley Davis Coakley The stretches history Hospital James’s of St 1703 when an act build passedback to to was a workhouse on its Just site. under thirty years the added to was hospital a foundling later workhouse. The discuss chapters this opening period of abandoned pitiful and the treatment children. closed was Hospital When Foundling the house used to were buildings in 1829 the The Workhouse. Dublin Union South the a crucialworkhouse played role during the of thousands to shelter giving Famine, Great starving workhouse The people. of the buildings Battalion 4th the commandeered of by were 1916. week during Easter Irishthe Volunteers After Dublin Union Independence South the and became a Hospital Kevin’s renamed St was city. for poor of the the municipal hospital oldest of the In 1971 three voluntary hospitals and Dun’s, Patrick Mercer’s, Sir in Dublin, with amalgamated hospitals, Street Baggot Over a Hospital. form James’s to St Kevin’s St very short Hospital period James’s St of time in became largest hospital the teaching ThisIreland. book describes history the of these impact and their developments city on the of Dublin. Davis formerly Coakley was a consultant and professor Hospital James’s in St physician author He is the in TCD. of medical gerontology history the of books on medicine, of medicine, and Irish literature. Mary in Coakley and Italian studied English a number of books and edited has UCC. She Davis with Coakley on literary worked has and historical projects. (2018) format, 528pp large full colour Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-607-8 €40 / £35 / $60

Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-787-7 €45 / £40 / $65 Summer 2019 320pp ills A history of the Cross Irish Red Lehane Shane Cross Society Irish the itsSince Red establishment (IRCS) in 1939, has part political and cultural, a key religious, played social, medical, in the historydiplomatic of twentieth-century decades, Over the Ireland. IRCS the firstprovided aid services and peace-time; in war-time both it pioneered and social carepublic health services; agency main and acted state’s the as for international humanitarian measures. relief and social care public health vital The and developed IRCS implemented During early state. the the by developed subsequently were that initiatives Society’s1940s, the formation transfusion blood of a national service for establishment the foundations laid the blood transfusion of a national service. The Society’s steering anti-tuberculosis of a national in campaign issue the eradication of TB fore the of the and helped 1940s brought the to IRCS 1950s, the the From disease. the public attitudes change to towards fore the in caring for also been to more and, forhas elderly the Ireland, in twothan effectively decades, that it was state in the only organization the services and introduced innovative campaigned for aged. the settlement its the with IRCS the been very has From inception, and involved of international humanitarian needs of refugees provision relief and the efforts relief overseas War-time from Ireland. and its post-war work for child refugees earned it significant international recognition and prestige. This history assesses work perspective and from a national role, the historical important the and examines impact IRC, this of the role that voluntary in modern played Ireland. organization of UCC. He is Kerry, Co. is a graduate of Tralee, LehaneShane , a native in Kerry: Famine of The author of itsthe Great poor impact in the a study 2015). 1845–52 (Tralee, & Killar unions of Dingle ney, law 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES

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Dublin City University, 1980–2020: designed to be different Eoin Kinsella

Dublin City University has grown rapidly from its origins as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, which admitted just 200 students when it first opened in 1980. NIHED emerged from a fundamental review of the third level sector during the 1960s and 1970s. The path to university status in 1989 was not smooth, requiring strong leadership, vision and significant philanthropic support during a time of economic crisis. DCU is one of Ireland’s youngest universities, and over the past four decades has become one of the most successful young universities in the world. It has been widely recognized as an innovative institution, strongly engaged in local, national and international communities and networks. Today the university has more than 17,000 students across three campuses in the north of the city, integrating four formerly independent colleges. This book relates the major achievements and many challenges in the forty years of DCU’s growth, examining key policy and strategy decisions, the contributions of leading personalities, and the collective experiences of staff and students.

Eoin Kinsella is a graduate of UCD, and has worked as a historical Winter 2019 consultant with a wide variety of public and private bodies. He is the author of 256pp colour ills Leopardstown Park Hospital, 1917–2017: a home for wounded soldiers (Dublin, Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-808-9 2017) and Catholic survival in Protestant Ireland, 1660–1711 (Woodbridge, €50 / £45 / $65 2018). PBK ISBN 978-1-84682-809-6 €24.95 / £22.50 / $39.95

An oral history of University College Galway, 1930–80: a university in living memory Jackie Uí Chionna

‘The University in Living Memory’ was an oral history project initiated by NUIG in 2007 to establish what it was like to study, teach and work at what was formerly University College Galway from 1930 to 1980. Interviews were conducted with everyone from college presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s, to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s. There are tales of lady superintendents supervising the moral well-being of female students; of dodgy digs and batty landladies; of eccentric professors and maternal tea ladies. There are scholarship students coming to Galway with a single change of clothes and very little else, except a keen desire for knowledge, de-mobbed American GIs, coming to study medicine in the 1950s and creating quite an impression on the female population, army cadets, nuns, and brothers who made up quite distinct strands of the student population, and generations of ordinary students from every part of the country and socio-economic background, who came to UCG for a good education – and to have some fun in the process. This book tells the story of a university that changed considerably over time, but retains the affection of those who have been associated with it over many decades. Autumn 2019 Jackie Uí Chionna teaches history at NUIG. Her biography of Galway businessman 320pp colour ills and politician Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh, He was Galway, was published by Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-812-6 Four Courts Press in 2016. She is writing a biography of music scholar and code €25 / £22.50 / $35 breaker Emily Anderson OBE. 32 LITERATURE / MEDIA STUDIES Literature / Media Studies Recently published

Spring 2019 288pp ills The Irish Regional Press, 1892–2018: Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-785-3 revival, revolution and republic €55 / £50 / $74.50 Ian Kenneally & James T. O’Donnell, editors

‘For anyone interested in the history of the Irish The shattered worlds of Standish O’Grady: an Irish media, this essay collection provides a valuable survey and analysis of the regional press […] life in writing Of the book’s two sections, the first provides Christopher Boettcher local case studies, while the second considers such themes as nationalism, the Irish language, censorship and the coverage of foreign news’, Standish O’Grady (1846–1928) is best remembered as the ‘Father of the Brian Maye, Irish Times. Irish Literary Revival’. Critics have long puzzled, however, about the turns and contradictions of the ‘Fenian-unionist’s’ thinking. This book offers an (2018) 210pp intellectual biography of O’Grady, tracing the tortuous development and Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-655-9 influence of his ideas. €50 / £45 / $70 It presents a new study of O’Grady’s early historical and political works and, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of O’Grady’s writing for the The Sunday papers: a history of All Ireland Review. He edited the review between 1900 and 1907, the most Ireland’s weekly press prolific period of his writing life. This writing led O’Grady into many curious Joe Breen & Mark O’Brien, editors schemes, culminating in his turn to anarchism and promotion of ‘Estates of For over a century, the Irish Sunday newspaper the New Order’, a plan to build communes in the Irish countryside. has influenced social mores and political developments in Ireland. In this lively and This portrait of the enigmatic writer contextualizes his role in the rise of Irish engaging book, historians and journalists nationalism and explores the complexities of political and social affiliations celebrate its character, role, culture and history. during the first, formative decade of the twentieth century. (2018) 256pp ills Christopher Boettcher is an associate professor of English at Castelton Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-727-3 U. In addition to research and teaching interests in Irish Studies, he also €55 / £49.50 / $74.50 specializes in the scholarship of teaching and learning and has recently co- authored a book on community-based global learning. Imagining alternative Irelands in 1912: cultural discourse in the periodical press Brian Ward

‘Meticulously researched and beautifully presented, Ward’s book is a valuable and original contribution to the existing historiography’, Steven T.M. Egan, Irish Studies Review.

(2017) 238pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-650-4 €50 / £45 / $70 LITERATURE / ITALIAN STUDIES 33

Previously published Literature / Italian Studies

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins John C. Barnes & Daragh O’Connell, editors

Contributors: John Took (UCL), Daragh O’Connell (UCC), Stefano Cracolici (U Durham), Hannah Skoda (St John’s College, Oxford), Marco Dorigatti (U Oxford), George Spring 2019 Ferzoco (U Bristol), Robert Black (U Leeds), 208pp Margaret More O’Ferrall (Dublin), Guyda Armstrong (U Manchester), Tristan Kay (U Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-757-0 Notre Dame), Angelo Maria Mangini (U €50 / £45 / $65 Exeter), John C. Barnes (UCD), Christian Moevs (U Notre Dame). J.G. Farrell’s Empire novels: the decline and fall of (2017) 288p the human condition Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-419-7 Rebecca Ziegler €55 / £50 / $70

Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book War and peace in Dante Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state John C. Barnes & Daragh O’Connell, characterized by ‘fall’ – like the empire, like the human race itself according editors to the biblical story of the Fall from Eden. ‘The book continues the tradition of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies series Farrell lets us know that this is his primary interest by naming one of his by involving not only Dante experts but also major characters, a dog, The Human Condition. He uses the falling empire scholars with a range of specialisms and as an overarching metaphor, as well as a rich source of imagery and approaches, thus bringing interesting and incidents, to illustrate the worsening human situation, as characterized by dynamic new perspectives to familiar episodes ‘Ehrendorf’s Second Law’ in Farrell’s book The Singapore grip, which is part and themes; this is a wide-ranging and insightful volume that will be of interest to any of the series: ‘The human situation, in general and in particular, is slightly student of Dante’s social and political thought’, worse (ignoring an occasional hiccup in the graph) at any given moment Kevin Marples, Modern Language Review. than at any preceding moment.’ (2015) 264pp In Farrell’s darkly funny books, all sorts of things, concrete and abstract, Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-420-3 display independent wills with which they oppose the will of human beings. €55 / £50 / $70 Ideas, symbols, ceremonies, human communication, human bodies, lands and possessions all act as rebels or subversives to undermine the human condition. Nature and art in Dante Daragh O’Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors Rebecca Ziegler is an associate professor emerita at Georgia Southern U. (2013) 248pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-421-0 €55 / £50 / $70

Language and style in Dante John C. Barnes & Michelangelo Zaccarello, editors

(2013) 234pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-253-7 €55 / £50 / $70 1820. The Irish Egan harps: tradition, patrons and players Hurrell Nancy The an important book uncovers in Irish harps the chapter history, illuminating and harp maker king’s (fl.1797–1829)and legacy of John Egan – inventor, moment in earlyIrish venerable when the 1800s Ireland patriot. a pivotal At a new invented Egan John disappearing culture, the harp from Gaelic was instrumentmodernized national future. The the steer harping into the to tradition formed in an iconic ‘Portable ‘Brianchromatic Irish Boru’ gold Harp’, shape with for the decades and embraced makers by subsequent copied by shamrocks, was impacting modern the wider world, Irish harp. story compelling in the innovation of a self- with tradition This book weaves different a dozen who created harp harp maker in imaginative taught models designs. This Irish of the organology much-needed on the book harp introduces literary period by the of harps played context as socio-cultural in the Egan aristocratic as harpists well as Owenson celebrities Thomas and Sydney Moore family Windsor at Castle poor blind boys and also houses, royal the big in the in harp society illustrations of distinctive harps schools. The in Egan book’s an invaluable this Harps’ make of Egan museums and an informative ‘Catalogue harp most renowned maker. resource work of Ireland’s the chronicling Nancy Hurrell is a harpist, harp historian Museum the to and consultant of Fine Arts, Boston. The authority leading Hurrell a decade spent on Egan, harps collections in museums and private examining Egan of the and is author entry dictionary Grove in New of musical instruments (2014). A performer in Boston early music ensembles, been a harpseveral she has instructor the at Boston Conservatory Irish harp first is the The Her CD Egan and Brandeis U. Portable Irish of an Egan c. recording Harp, Documents of Irish music history in the nineteenth long century: Irish Musical 12 vol. Studies editors Kerry Maria Houston, & Michael McHale Murphy, and online publication of documents expotentially The is increasing digitization resources for professional invaluable and amateur providing across globe, the professional-researchers. institutions provide academic and cultural While many these documents, information are obvious there accompany to contextual level attendant without images of digital provision the with associated dangers history publication authenticity, information and historical provenance, on their This presentsvalue. volume extracts from a number of documents long from the centurynineteenth pertain that history the to The of music in Ireland. documents chapter Each categories: one of three fall image. into text, musical notation, (or of a document a copy contains an extract) an essay with along provides that represent to The and interpretation. sought explanation editors have context, of documents addressa broad range that aspects history of the of music in Ireland: social history; music profession; the economics the of musical life; performance practice; and repertoire; musical taste theory and aesthetics; the of Irishhistoriography music history; identity; national repertoire. traditional the also addressed authors the have international the context Where relevant, documents.surrounding given the The Irish series Musical Studies is published in Society the association with for Musicology in Ireland. Kerry Houston Department is head of the DIT of Academic Studies, Conservatory of Music and Drama. Maria is a lecturer McHale in musicology DITat Conservatory of Music and Drama. Michael Murphy is a lecturer in Marymusic at I. Spring 2019 (previously announced) 320pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-724-2 €55 / £50 / $74.50 MUSIC Spring 2019 336pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-759-4 €50 / £45 / $65

34 Music 35 Art ART . Recently published Recently Wilhelmina Geddes: life and work Bowe NicolaGordon Shortlisted 2016 Book of for The Apollo Awards and The William Prize for MB Berger Year the British Art History 2016. Times LiteraryAlso, Supplement choice for Times Sunday ’ choice for Year’. ‘Book of the One of the ‘Best Irish Art Year’. Book of the ‘Best Non-FictionIrish Independent’s Books of Year’. the Geddes:‘Wilhelmina life and work is Nicola and very exceptional welcome Bowe’s Gordon of Irishcontribution historiography the art, to particularly Irish narrative of overlooked the to artists.women informed Through detailed, art the reveals monograph this analysis and artistry of Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) round […]in the shines a much-needed Bowe career on the of a stained artist glass light Harry to in stature equal […] Clarke Bowe’s married is subject knowledge well-chosen with writing smoothly that and eloquent quotations information about Geddes’ troubled integrates practicepersonal life and creative expert with art-historical commentary memorable create to pictures heretofore this word reanimate that artistoverlooked […] book will of this Purchase professionalrepay the historian and general quality production do values Top reader alike. illustrations much justice sumptuous the to accounts detailed of Bowe’s accompany that personal, social and artisticthe in which milieu […] Geddes worked unique the Thanks Bowe, to magnificent, Geddestalent had for creating glittering works of art challenging the using find itsmedium of stained is sure to glass rightful place canon in the of Irish art history writer this hopes,and, will become better Caroline McGee, audience’, a global to known Artefact (2015) 508pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-532-3 €55 / £45 / $74.50

.50 Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-649-8 €55 / £50 / $74 Spring 2019 (previously announced) format288pp large colour ills Catherine Wynne is senior lecturer in nineteenth-century and literature is a specialist also published on Lady U Hull. She Butler and has at culture and Arthur on Bram Stoker Conanwidely Doyle. Catherine Wynne This first is the of Victorian artist famous war biography Britain’s Elizabeth born Switzerland in Lausanne, was in 1846. As She Thompson Butler. became she Thompson, a celebrityElizabeth after her Crimean exhibiting transformed call, in 1874. The She roll art painting war depicting by War conflict decades trauma, before its a medical condition. as designation in decline. Married was William 1914, her reputation to Butler, by Yet, an Irish Catholic officer her life in art a life spent British in the was army, his military her husband to with South to travelling from Egypt postings, Africa. Settling she witnessed from 1905, in Ireland turbulence the of the observer astute an was She of the of Independence Civiland the War. War British imperial project and her work is prescient in its concern the with military of foreign implications intervention. Her art ordinary the champions dispossessed.soldier and the is a ‘recovery’ This biography project drawing letterson unpublished and diaries. It is a story and history, of war of travel and conflict, London of the art Risorgimento, of the of Italy world where she celebrity difficulties the achieved and negotiated a female artist of being in a reveals a male-dominated Her biography and of imperial travel. domain, figure whose perspective is modern, whose confidence on war in achieving success field masculine in the of battle art contemporary into taps debates, post-imperial of the a rethinking world. and whose work provokes Lady Butler: 1846–1933 artist war and traveller, 36 FOLKLORE Folklore

Binneas an tSiansa: essays on aspects of Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

This volume presents an authoritative collection of essays on Irish, Celtic studies and folklore. Published in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin, professor emeritus of Irish folklore and former director of the National Folklore Collection, its contents engage with themes that have characterized her substantial contribution to scholarship both nationally and internationally.

Contributors: Anna Bale (UCD); Angela Bourke (UCD); Nicholas Carolan (Irish Traditional Music Archive); Síle de Cléir (UL); Kelly Fitzgerald (UCD); Cathal Goan (UCD); Barbara Hillers (Indiana U, Bloomington); Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (UCD); Margaret A. Mackay (U Edinburgh); Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD); Maureen Murphy (Hofstra U); Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Folklore of Ireland Society/Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann); Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (UCD); Willie Nolan (UCD); Stiofán Ó Cadhla (UCC); Séamás Ó Catháin (UCD); Anne O’Dowd (NMI); Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (U Notre Dame); Éamonn Ó hÓgáin (ind.); Lillis Ó Laoire (NUIG); Tom Sherlock (ind.); Fionnuala Carson Williams (ind.); and Vincent Woods (writer/broadcaster). Autumn 2019 320pp Kelly Fitzgerald is assistant professor in the School of Irish Celtic Studies and Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-810-2 Folklore, UCD. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn is head of Irish folklore, UCD. Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is associate professor of Irish, UCD. Anne O’Connor is a folklorist, with a €55 / £50 / $74.50 PhD in Irish and comparative international folklore.

The Mount Callan Garland: songs from the repertoire of Tom Lenihan, Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, County Clare Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with music transcriptions by Marian Deasy

Tom Lenihan of Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare (1905–90), was a farmer. Though English is the language of his area, it is deeply coloured by Irish idiom and constructions as can be seen in the many hundreds of pages of lore and song, which were collected from him throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Although Tom was a rich source of Clare tradition, he was primarily known as a singer. In addition to songs of Irish origin he performed older international ballads along with local songs; all were grist to his unbiased mill.

The fifty-two pieces reproduced in this book cover aspects of Tom’s repertoire, and about half of them are contained on the accompanying cds. Tom’s skill as a performer is captured along with his very obvious and contagious enjoyment in singing, which also comes across.

Dubliner Tom Munnelly (1944–2007) was passionate about song. His life’s work revolved around collecting, publishing and researching traditional song. In particular, he focused on songs in English whether of Irish origin or of the Winter 2018 international ballad genre. In 1978, Tom moved, with his family, to settle near Pbk ISBN 978-0-906426-16-6 Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare. Tom Lenihan was not only one of Tom Munnelly’s 188pp ills, 2 music CDs most prolific sources but also a good friend. A publication such as The Mount Callan Garland reflects some of the fruits of this relationship. €25 / £22.50 / $39.50 First published in 1994, Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann has now issued this reprint in an updated format. The sound recordings have been remastered by Harry Bradshaw. FOLKLORE / NUI PUBLICATIONS / THEOLOGY 37

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