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Well our 50th anniversary year (2020) didn’t go exactly to plan . . . and for a myriad of covid reasons our schedule of publications fell somewhat behind. So as we head out into a new year, with a little more hope now perhaps, some of our ‘friends’ from last year are to be found among an exciting new list of books for 2021. We embark on our journey this year in the company of Adomnán and Columba, and meet along the way William Marshal, Prior John de Pembridge and the swashbuckling Captain Cuéllar. After a sojourn along the streets of medieval Dublin we visit the Elizabethan Quadrangle at Trinity College, before surveying the final stand of the rebels on Vinegar Hill. We chart the rise and fall of the during the Great Famine, examine the lavish contents of country houses, and chronicle the remarkable career of Teresa Ball, founder of the Loreto schools. Along the way we review the changing fortunes of Henrietta Street in Dublin, the politics and political culture of the long eighteenth century in Ireland, a new history of the city and county of Limerick, and we hear harp music from around the world. And finally we arrive in the twentieth century where we add several new counties to our Irish Revolution series, analyse the composition of the Black and Tans, provide a timely history of the Irish pharmaceutical industry, before finishing our journey in Dublin of the 1970s and 80s.

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Recently published Medieval Studies

Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium and the ADOMNÁN, Jurisprudence of Warfare Mapping Adhamhnán, Eunan James W. Houlihan Death Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland Life and afterlife of a Donegal saint Brian Lacey ELIZABETH O’BRIEN

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Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium and the jurisprudence of warfare James W. Houlihan

‘In this book the ordinary reader will find an account of the roots of the views about the treatments of innocent civilians, clergy Spring 2021 and other unarmed folk in time of war. It is a discussion of the Cáin Adomnáin ... but lawyer 288pp turned historian James W. Houlihan ranges Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-963-5 well outside the confines of early Christian Ireland to discuss ideas about laws of war and €19.95 / £17.95 / $27.50 the protection of non-combatants over the centuries ... Here in Adomnán is perhaps the basic source and moral justification of Ireland’s Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan: life and afterlife of a long-sustained neutrality, and the country’s Donegal saint well-established services in the cause of peace and development ... [This is] the work of a new Brian Lacey historian long used to handling and presenting legal evidence with clarity, and is filled with Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off aperçus that will give everyone who reads the the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches book “furiously to think”’, Peter Costello, Irish associated with St Columba/Colum Cille. Like Columba, Adomnán came Catholic. from what is now County Donegal. He was one of the most significant (2020) 240pp churchmen and intellectuals of the seventh century. The copying and re- copying of his written works meant that, in medieval times, his reputation Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-849-2 spread widely on the Continent. Monk, priest, manager, writer, historian, €50 / £45 / $70 lawmaker and diplomat, he was the author of one of the first laws, anywhere, for the protection of non-combatants in times of conflict, and compiled an exegetical ‘guide-book’ to the ‘sites’ of the Holy Land – the Mapping death: burial in late Iron Age and early medieval Ireland oldest surviving text of its kind from anywhere in Western Europe. He also wrote a major hagiographical Life of his predecessor and distant relative Elizabeth O’Brien Columba. So powerful and influential a text was that book that it all but This book takes an interdisciplinary approach removed Adomnán himself from the limelight, in favour of his illustrious to burial practices in Ireland in order to forerunner. interpret and to chart the development of burial rites as they appear in the archaeological record of the late Iron Age and Although much has been written about individual aspects of Adomnán’s early medieval period. Sources are combined career, this is the first study to outline the totality of his life and reputation with an examination of references to death, – in so far as we can know it! It is structured in two parts: the first part burial and associated events that appear examines his historical life and writing, while the second part analyses his in Irish hagiography, penitentials, laws and ‘afterlife’ as a ‘saint’ – throwing new light on the early years of the bishopric canons compiled during the seventh and eighth centuries. The topics covered in this of Raphoe with which his memory has since been linked. book include: the transition from cremation to inhumation; re-use of ancient ancestral burial Brian Lacey is an archaeologist and historian, mainly specializing in the places; occasional use of grave goods; funeral history of the north-west of Ireland, from the sixth century to the sixteenth feasts; atypical or deviant burials; mobility of century. He is the author of over ten books, and many research papers. From people within and into Ireland; the exceptional Dublin originally, he now lives in Dún Lúiche in the west Donegal Gaeltacht. burials of some women; the cessation of burial of Christians among their pagan ancestors; and burial in early Church cemeteries.

(2020) 320pp, colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-859-1 €55 / £50 / $74.50 4 MEDIEVAL STUDIES Medieval Studies

Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of MÁIRE HERBERT the monastic familia of Columba Máire Herbert

First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth and twelfth centuries. Three major works of hagiography were produced within the Columban familia during that time, the Latin Vita Columbae, and Lives of Adomnán and of Colum Cille in the Irish language. These texts, elucidated from linguistic and literary viewpoints, are set in the context of the history of the Columban community, and thereby are made to provide enhanced insights into IONA, the actions and attitudes of the community at significant stages in its past. This new reprint includes an afterword from the author, surveying important KELLS, research developments in the interval since the book was first published, and AND DERRY indicating directions for further research. The history and hagiography of the ‘Judicious and extremely learned ... this is a book warmly to be welcomed and monastic familia of Columba recommended’, Jane Stevenson, History.

‘This work is a significant contribution to both Irish hagiography studies and to Spring 2021 hagiography in general’, Dorothy Ann Bray, Church History.

352pp ‘Meticulous scholarship ... and a model for fuller investigation of the lives of Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-964-2 saints’, G.O. Simms, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 Máire Herbert is emeritus professor of Early and Medieval Irish at UCC. She has published widely in the areas of Early Irish literature, hagiography and history.

The Gaelic Finn tradition II Sharon J. Arbuthnot, Síle Ní Mhurchú & Geraldine Parsons, editors

The Gaelic Finn tradition encompasses literature and lore centered on the figure of Finn Mac Cumaill. The essays in this volume cover, as with those in the earlier volume, The Gaelic Finn tradition (2012), numerous aspects of this tradition, including texts both medieval and modern, collectors and collections of oral Finn material, the landscapes of Finn Mac Cumaill and the reception of the Finn Cycle outside the Gaelic world.

Contents: Sharon J. Arbuthnot (QUB), The Reeves Agallamh as a lexical resource; John Carey (UCC), The death of Diarmaid: Pessinus to Ben Bulben?; Elizabeth FitzPatrick (NUIG), Hunting places in fíanaigecht and their association with borderlands of medieval Gaelic territories; Joseph J. Flahive (RIA), ‘A chloidhimh chléirchín an chluig’ and the concept of the literary cycle in medieval Ireland; Maxim Fomin (UU), Tecosca Cormaic and fíanaigecht tradition; Anja Gunderloch (U Edinburgh), John Francis Campbell, William Robertson and the collection of fianaigheacht tales and ballads in nineteenth-century ; Sìm Innes (U Glasgow), Dùsgadh na Féinne (1908): Katherine Whyte Grant’s Scottish Gaelic kinderspiel; Martina Maher (U Edinburgh), The Cín Dromma Snechtai- fíanaigecht complex in Egerton 1782; Bernhard Maier (Tübingen U), Late Summer 2021 (previously announced) Victorian ideas about Ossian and the origins of Celtic studies in Scotland and 256pp ills Germany; Kevin Murray (UCC), Editing Acallam na Senórach; Síle Ní Mhurchú Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-795-2 (UCC), The poetic contention in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig; Rebecca Shercliff (U Cambridge), The narrative unity of ‘Finn and the man in the tree’; Natasha €55 / £50 / $74.50 Sumner (Harvard U), The Fianna and the folklore collectors.

Sharon J. Arbuthnot is an assistant editor, eDIL, School of Arts, English and Languages, QUB. Síle Ní Mhurchú is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish, UCC. Geraldine Parsons is a lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic, U Glasgow. MEDIEVAL STUDIES 5 Medieval Studies

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: cultures and connections Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books and documents were brought together in the British Library exhibition, ‘Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: art, word, war’. Together, these manuscripts illuminate extensive intellectual connections as well as widespread scribal and artistic networks that developed within the islands of Britain and Ireland, and further afield across much of early medieval Europe. Using new scientific methods, as Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms well as textual criticism, art historical analysis and historical research, the essays

CULTURES AND CONNECTIONS in this richly illustrated volume, written by leading scholars, present innovative

CLAIRE BREAY & JOANNA STORY, editors research that focuses on manuscripts that were copied, decorated or used in the early English kingdoms and their neighbours, across a 500-year period from the advent of Christianity among the English, c.600, to the age of conquest in the

Spring 2021Manuscripts in(previously the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Desannounced)ign 5 C Revised eleventh century.

[email protected] www.anu-design.ie 06/01/20 256pp large format, full colour Claire Breay is head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-866-9 the British Library and curated the Library’s recent ‘Anglo-Saxon kingdoms’ €65 / £55 / $85 exhibition. Joanna Story is professor of early medieval history, U Leicester.

Trinity College Library Dublin: a catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English John Scattergood with the assistance of Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams

Trinity College Library Dublin The world-famous collection of manuscripts in Trinity College Library Dublin A Catalogue of Manuscripts largely consists of items that came to the college in 1661 from the library of Containing Middle English and Archbishop James Ussher, primate of all Ireland, who had been a fellow and Some Old English professor there. Ussher’s manuscripts were mainly in Latin, but he also collected JOHN SCATTERGOOD with Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams material in English, Irish and other languages – including a number of ancient eastern languages. His interests were principally in theology and religion, history and some practical sciences, and though, later, other donors contributed other valuable items, the character of the collection remained what it was. Among the Middle English items, there are many religious texts, in both poetry and prose, a lot of which are reformist – Wycliffite Bibles and polemical works, many of which are unique to this collection. Among the histories appear ten copies of the popular Brut Chronicle, of which five are in Middle English and two (MSS 489 and 505) are richly illuminated, Robert Bale’s Chronicle of 1189–1461, translations of Giraldus Cambrensis’s Expugnacio Hibernica, and William Lambarde’s invaluable text (MS 631), made in 1563, of the Anglo-Saxon Spring 2021 (previously announced) Chronicle to the year ad 1001, copied from a manuscript destroyed by fire in 420pp colour ills 1731. John Benet’s personal miscellany (MS 516), compiled over many years in the middle of the fifteenth century, preserves many unique texts relating to the Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-852-2 Wars of the Roses. This catalogue, put together by its authors over many years, is €55 / £50 / $74.50 the first to concentrate on these manuscripts and to describe them in detail.

John Scattergood is professor (emeritus) of medieval and Renaissance English literature at TCD, where Niamh Pattwell and Emma Williams were both students in the School of English. Niamh Pattwell is associate professor at the School of English, Drama and Film, UCD. Emma Williams is a senior vice president with Microsoft, based in Seattle. 6 MEDIEVAL STUDIES / TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SERIES Medieval Studies

Plantagenet Ireland Robin Frame

For two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English crown not just by English law and direct administration, but through other networks, above all the allegiance of a settler establishment led by aristocratic, ecclesiastical and civic elites that benefited from being within the orbit of royal patronage and service.

This book contains fifteen interlinked studies, several of which appear here for the first time. The opening chapters trace Ireland’s changing place within a wider Plantagenet realm that itself altered geographically and institutionally during the period. In the thirteenth century Gaelic leaders were pushed to the geographical and political margins. In the fourteenth, English control and English custom retreated, posing fresh challenges to the crown and its ministers. Despite the alarmist claims of settler communities, Plantagenet Ireland was far from collapsing. Later chapters explore the altered distribution of power across the island. English chief governors, some of whom had experience of other borderlands of the Plantagenet realm, exercised power in a mixture of cultural modes, which enabled them to draw in, rather than simply confront, Gaelic lords Autumn 2021 (previously announced) and marcher lineages. 320pp Robin Frame, a graduate of TCD, is emeritus professor of history at Durham U. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-794-5 He is the author of English lordship in Ireland, 1318−1361 (Oxford, 1982), The €55 / £50 / $74.50 political development of the British Isles, 1100−1400 (Oxford, 1990) and Ireland and Britain, 1170−1450 (London, 1998). A second edition of his Colonial Ireland, 1169−1369 was published by Four Courts Press in 2012.

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 2021 (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 7

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Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: history, culture and society Katharine Simms

‘This impressive book is based on decades of research by Katharine Simms, beginning with her BA dissertation in 1969 and continuing Winter 2021 to the present day. The first section covers the social history of Ulster from the Iron 400pp ills Age to the sixteenth century, discussing the Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-965-9 rivalries between the Gaelic families and their kingdoms. This reveals the complexity of €55 / £50 / $74.50 Gaelic society in Ulster and its interactions with the wider island. The second section deals with the culture of Gaelic Ulster. This section The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge: an has chapters on kingship, the church, poets, account of Irish affairs, 1162–1370 “men of art”, warfare, and women. The final chapter looks at the everyday life of people, in Bernadette Williams, editor particular their settlements, housing, clothing, and living conditions. This is a scholarly work When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house and will form the cornerstone of all future on the north bank of the next to the bridge where the Four Courts studies of Gaelic Ireland, but it is written in are situated today. Anyone who wanted to enter the city of Dublin from the an accessible manner for the non-academic north, or leave across the bridge, had to pass the gate of the priory. It was audience. The book is vital for anyone studying medieval Ulster, or Ireland more generally, and in this priory in the mid-fourteenth century that a Dominican friar named there are many details that will be informative Prior John de Pembridge wrote these Latin annals. This is the first modern for anyone that has an interest in medieval edition of the annals of Pembridge (1162–1348), together with those of his Ulster and its Gaelic families. Katharine anonymous Dominican continuator (1348–70). In 1884, in a two-volume Simms is recognised as one of the foremost work entitled The chartularies of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, Sir John Gilbert scholars on the Gaelic world and this volume demonstrates why. She is able to intertwine printed these Latin annals without an English translation. Gilbert’s was a history and archaeology and bring the people, rudimentary edition that did not make use of all available manuscripts. events, and landscapes alive for the reader’, In this new edition, Bernadette Williams, the foremost expert on the Latin Ulster Archaeological Society Newsletter (2020). annals of Anglo-Norman Ireland, presents an authoritative modern edition of these manuscripts with facing translation. The annals, which cover the (2020) 568pp colour ills period 1162–1370, provide a unique window into the political, religious Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-793-8 and social character of the city of Dublin, and Ireland more generally, €65 / £55 / $85 at a pivotal moment in their history. The editor has provided a detailed textual analysis and commentary on the annals and their significance. The joy of these annals lies not only in the serious news recorded by John de Pembridge, but also in the vivid portrait of medieval life he offers – from the bakers of Dublin drawn at horses’ tails through the city’s streets for selling below-weight bread, to the mayor of Dublin who used his own money to build a marble cistern supplying water to the city, and the 500 whales washed up at the mouth of the Dodder that fed Dubliners during the famine of 1331.

Bernadette Williams holds a PhD from TCD, where she lectured in medieval Latin and the history of women in the Middle Ages. She is editor and translator of The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn (2007) and The ‘Annals of Multyfarnham’: Roscommon and provenance (2012), both published by Four Courts Press. 8 MEDIEVAL STUDIES / IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY SERIES Medieval Studies

Ireland and the crusades Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O’Keeffe, editors

The crusades – a broad term encompassing a disparate series of military expeditions, with the avowed intent of preserving/expanding Christianity and the heterodoxy of the Roman Church – were a quintessential phenomenon of moral and religious life in medieval Europe. Traditionally, Ireland’s connection with the crusades has been seen to be slight. In recent years, however, new research has begun to replace this view with a more nuanced picture. This is an interdisciplinary volume of essays from leading scholars working in this field, which re-examines Ireland’s connection to the crusading movement in its many forms.

Edward Coleman is a lecturer and assistant professor in the School of History, UCD. Paul Duffy is a senior archaeologist with IAC Archaeology. Tadhg IRELANDand the O’Keeffe is a full professor in the School of Archaeology, UCD. CRUSADES For a complete list of contributors and contents, see our website. Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O’Keeffe e d i t o r s

Winter 2021 (previously announced) 256pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-861-4 €55 / £50 / $74.50

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive and unjust rule – in a word, on tyranny. The fame of Magna Carta spread as England, and later Britain, came to girdle the globe in its power. This volume in the ILHS series is the first to examine the importance of Ireland in the story of Magna Carta’s dissemination. Four centuries before Magna Carta crossed the Atlantic, it had already been implanted across the Irish Sea. A version of the charter, issued in November 1216 in the name of the boy-king Henry III, was sent to Ireland, where it became fundamental to the English common law tradition in Ireland that survives to the present. This volume – the proceedings of a conference marking the 800th anniversary of the transmission of Magna Carta to Ireland – explores the paradoxes presented by the reception of Magna Carta into Irish law, above all the contested idea of ‘liberty’ that developed in Ireland. Contributors examine the legal, political and polemical uses to which Magna Carta was put from the thirteenth century onwards, as well as its twentieth- and twenty-first-century invocations as a living presence in contemporary Irish law. Winter 2021 (previously announced) The volume also includes a new edition and translation of the Magna Carta Hibernie (‘The Great Charter of Ireland’) – an adaptation of the 1216 issue of 320pp ills Magna Carta found in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer, which was destroyed Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-740-2 in 1922. €55 / £50 / $74.50 Peter Crooks is a lecturer in medieval history at TCD, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is co-editor of The Geraldines and medieval Ireland: the making of a myth (Dublin, 2016). Thomas Mohr is a lecturer at the School of Law, UCD. He is honorary secretary of the Irish Legal History Society and the author of Guardian of the Treaty: the Privy Council appeal and Irish sovereignty (Dublin, 2016). MEDIEVAL STUDIES 9

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IRELAND ENCASTELLATED AD 950–1550

INSULAR CASTLE-BUILDING IN ITS EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in medieval Ireland

Francis Young Spring 2021 (previously announced) 240pp ills William Marshal and Ireland Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-863-8 TADHG O’KEEFFE John Bradley, Cóilin Ó Drisceoil & Michael €45 / £40 / $65 Potterton, editors

New paperback edition

Ireland encastellated, ad 950–1550: insular ‘An exceptional collection of essays … It is an castle-building in its European context example of the best of medieval scholarship: thoughtful, detailed, interdisciplinary and Tadhg O’Keeffe filled with a spirit of collegiality that jumps from the page’, Thomas Finan, Journal of Irish Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships Archaeology (2017). between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book Spring 2021 368pp colour ills seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non- Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-961-1 Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 to the tenth century in line with the chronology of castle-building on the Continent? Are castles in Ireland typical of their periods by contemporary standards in England and France in particular? Are any castles in Ireland Athassel Priory and the cult of St genuinely innovative or radical by those contemporary standards? What Edmund in medieval Ireland inferences about Ireland’s place in medieval Europe can be drawn from the Francis Young evidence of its castles and their forms? ‘Young has managed to skilfully draw on the work of other scholars to weave an informative ‘Tadhg O’Keeffe writes with intellectual verve and immense knowledge as picture of the issues, families, politics and well as very accessibly. This book is much bigger than its title: not just a religion of the age while following the rise and comprehensive reassessment of Irish castle-buiilding in a European context decline of the cult, from the heyday of the de – though it is that – but a reassessment of many aspects of castle-building Burghs to the residual cultural evidence that endures today’, Archaeology Ireland (2020). in England and France. It opens up a complex subject for newcomers, and transforms it for specialists. It will be a landmark for the next generation’, (2020) 192pp ills Professor John Blair, University of Oxford. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-846-1 Tadhg O’Keeffe is full professor of archaeology, UCD. His earlier books €50 / £45 / $70 include Romanesque Ireland: architecture and ideology in the twelfth century (Dublin, 2003), Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600 (Dublin, 2015), and Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath: colonial monasticism in The kings of Aileach and the medieval Ireland (Dublin, 2018). Vikings, ad 800–1060 Darren McGettigan

‘A superb narrative ... The book represents an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of Viking history and its importance for our complex Norse-Irish heritage and the ultimate collapse of the Uí Néill line of High Kings of Ireland’, Sean Beattie, Donegal Annual (2020).

(2020) 208pp colour ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-836-2 €24.95 / £19.95 / $35 10 MEDIEVAL STUDIES

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The daughters of the first earl of Cork: writing family, faith, politics and place Ann-Maria Walsh

‘It is impossible to write a history of Ireland in the seventeenth century without considering the Winter 2021 (previously announced) career and legacy of the enormously energetic carpetbagger, Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork 224pp large format, colour ills (1566–1643). As Ann-Maria Walsh observes in Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-797-6 her impressive new book, Boyle’s strategy for success involved “planting, custodianship and €45 / £40 / $65 self-publicizing”, factors that determined the lives of the Boyle women and those who married into the family. Until now, however, analysis of Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Garas of the Boyle family has centred on the earl and Coolavin his sons ... and the women have been largely seen in terms of their marriages and children … Kieran O’Conor, editor Richard Boyle had seven daughters ... All were educated, all got married, and all left a mark, Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is many leaving journals and letters, the basis for one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. this study. Rather than following the lives of the Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth century by the O’Garas, women in question the book is organized into the castle functioned as a centre of their lordship of Coolavin. five chapters representing particular aspects of the women’s experiences and their writing. Sensitive to both the advantages and limitations This study of Moygara Castle marshals various fields of expertise – history, of the lives of its protagonists, and building on archaeology, architecture, geography, genealogy, geophysical survey and a wide range of archival sources, Daughters of DNA analysis – to provide much-needed information about life in later- the first earl of Cork is a serious and enjoyable medieval Gaelic Ireland. book. Well-written and argued, it is a valuable overview of the lives of a group of forceful Contributors include Anne Connon, Phyl Foley, Rory Sherlock, Paul M. aristocratic women who played their part in Kerrigan, Kevin Barton, Kieran O’Conor, Maura O’Gara-O’Riordan, Máire establishing the Anglophone nature of colonial Irish society. There are some nice colour plates Ní Chearbhaill. too’, Andrew Hadfield, Seventeenth Century Journal (2020). Kieran O’Conor is senior lecturer in the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUIG. (2020) 194pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-798-3 €50 / £45 / $70

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

‘[This] important book will … not only be useful to those with an interest in early modern colonization projects, it will also appeal to those interested in more-rounded histories of the early Stuart state and the origins of wars in the three kingdoms’, History Scotland.

(2018 ) 286pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-689-4 €50 / £45 / $70 MEDIEVAL STUDIES 11 Medieval Studies

Dublin Medieval Medieval Dublin XVIII

Some of the most important recent historical research on the subject of Dublin city and county in the Middle Ages is gathered together in this volume, including, in Seán Duffy, editor pride of place, a fundamental re-examination of the origins of the medieval diocese of Dublin by Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel. This book also contains Theresa O’Byrne’s brilliant new investigation of the professional networks of Anglo-Irish literary scribes working in the later medieval city, Áine Foley’s history of the le Brun family who This volume contains a number of important papers on an ecclesiastical theme. were prominent in the life of medieval Dublin for centuries, and Randolph Jones’s analysis of evidence relating to the ‘coronation’ of the pretender Lambert Simnel as Lorcan Harney examines early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures in Dublin king of England and Ireland in Christ Church cathedral in 1487. The volume also contains a critical re-examination by Paul Dryburgh of the Dublin connections of Roger Mortimer, first earl of March, lieutenant of Ireland at the time of the Bruce and its hinterland as part of a major study of such sites nationwide. Edel Invasion, and lover of Edward II’s queen, Isabella. Those interested in the daily life of the citizens of medieval Dublin will find a treasure-trove of information on the subject Bhreathnach studies the saints and Biblical figures to whom Dublin’s churches in the Anglo-Norman ‘Custumal’ known as Les leys et les usages de la cite de Diveline which survives in the Dublin Chain Book: this volume provides, for the first time, were dedicated, and what this tells us about the pre-Viking church there and how a full translation by Phyllis Gaffney and Yolande de Pontfarcy Sexton of this vital XVIII primary source. Christianization developed among the Hiberno-Norse of the city and suburbs. Those interested in Dublin’s archaeological heritage will not want to miss Linzi Simpson’s major study of her excavations on the site of the medieval parish church of Thomas W. Smith analyses Rome’s intrusion into the affairs of the archdiocese St John’s of Bothe Street, or the results of Antoine Giacometti’s excavations piecing together the medieval urban landscape of James’s Street. Máire Geaney presents a of Dublin in the thirteenth century, while John William Sullivan looks at the radical new interpretation of the carpentry involved in the Anglo-Norman waterfront revetments at Wood Quay; Sheila Dooley examines what we know and what may phenomenon of medieval Dublin’s two cathedrals and their distinct functions survive of the ‘lost’ medieval church of St Michael on the site of the modern heritage centre; Gill Boazman provides a ground-breaking study of material culture in terms of Dubliners’ lived religious experience. Kevin Street Garda Station was and identity in the southern hinterland of Hiberno-Norse Dublin in the half-barony of Rathdown; and the city archaeologist Ruth Johnson describes a remarkable new previously the archbishop’s palace of St Sepulchre, and Alan Hayden’s recent research resource for medieval Dublin, the Archaeology GIS. Seán Duffy

Seán Duffy is professor of medieval Irish and Insular history at Trinity College archaeological investigations on the grounds and fabric produced results which Dublin and chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin. may require a radical rethink of what the original palace looked like. Paul Duffy editor MEDIEVAL excavated part of another of Dublin’s great ecclesiastical complexes, St Thomas’s DUBLIN XVIII abbey, where he discovered, along Thomas Street, much evidence for medieval The jacket by Liam Furlong incorporates a detail from the www.fourcourtspress.ie tanneries, activity reflected too in the report by Antoine Giacometti on one of spoon handle contained in a collection of silverware depicting St Michael’s church, Dublin, c.1697 (© RCB Library). Seán Duffy editor the largest tanning complexes ever discovered in Ireland or Britain, which he unearthed in Blackpitts. This volume also contains an analysis, by John Nicholl, of one of the largest collections of late-medieval footwear ever uncovered in Spring 2021 (previously announced) Ireland, from Chancery Lane. Economic life in the medieval city features too in the ground-breaking study by Denis Casey of what constituted the economy of 390pp ills Dublin in the period immediately preceding the English conquest in 1170. Among Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-815-7 the descendants of those English settlers were the Marewards, who typified €50 / £45 / $65 many a late-medieval nouveau riche family who ended up marrying into the rural gentry of the hinterland, discussed by Randolph Jones. They are precisely the Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-816-4 category elected to collect parliamentary taxes in Co. Dublin in the late Middle €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 Ages that Brian Coleman investigates, no doubt providing the English-speaking audience for whose entertainment – and perhaps for whose subtle political purposes – tales such as that of Tristan and Isolde were composed, which Caoimhe Whelan brilliantly explores in this volume.

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This volume contains a number of important papers on an ecclesiastical theme. Lorcan Harney examines early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures in Dublin and its hinterland as Seán Duffy, editor part of a major study of such sites nationwide. Edel Bhreathnach studies the saints and Biblical figures to whom Dublin’s churches were dedicated, and what this tells us about the pre-Viking church there and how Christianization developed among the Hiberno- Norse of the city and suburbs. Thomas W. Smith analyses Rome’s intrusion into the affairs of the archdiocese of Dublin in the thirteenth century, while John William This volume contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s fascinating Sullivan looks at the phenomenon of medieval Dublin’s two cathedrals and their distinct functions in terms of Dubliners’ lived religious experience. Kevin Street Garda Station medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René Gapert was previously the archbishop’s palace of St Sepulchre, and Alan Hayden’s recent archaeological investigations on the grounds and fabric produced results which may that re-examine skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, require a radical rethink of what the original palace looked like. Paul Duffy excavated part of another of Dublin’s great ecclesiastical complexes, St Thomas’s abbey, where he discovered, along Thomas Street, much evidence for medieval tanneries, activity reflected Thomas Street. Paul Duffy presents the findings of his major excavation at the too in the report by Antoine Giacometti on one of the largest tanning complexes ever discovered in Ireland or Britain, which he unearthed in Blackpitts. site of the medieval church of St Peter of the Hill at Aungier Street/Stephen’s

Both these sites give an insight into the production of leather and this volume also contains an analysis, by John Nicholl, of one of the largest collections of late-medieval Street, while Aisling Collins explains the significant findings from the dig of footwear ever uncovered in Ireland, from Chancery Lane. Economic life in the medieval city features too in the ground-breaking study by Denis Casey of what constituted the the church and graveyard at St James’s, including a haul of remarkable late- economy of Dublin in the period immediately preceding the English conquest in 1170. XIX Among the descendants of those English settlers were the Marewards, who typified many a late-medieval nouveau riche family who ended up marrying into the rural medieval artefacts. Franc Myles reports on the findings of his excavation gentry of the hinterland, discussed by Randolph Jones. They are precisely the category elected to collect parliamentary taxes in co. Dublin in the late Middle Ages which Brian at Keysar’s Lane beside St Audeon’s church in High Street, including some Coleman investigates, no doubt providing the English-speaking audience for whose entertainment – and perhaps for whose subtle political purposes – tales such as that of fascinatingly decorated medieval floor-tiles; Jon Stirland reports on the discovery Tristan and Isolde were composed, which Caoimhe Whelan brilliantly explores in this Seán Duffy volume. of two parallel ditches of possible early medieval/medieval date located to

Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at and chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin. the rear of nos 19–22 Aungier Street; and Edmond O’Donovan describes his editor MEDIEVAL discoveries while excavating in the internal courtyard at the site of the Bank of DUBLIN XIX Ireland at Parliament House, College Green, marked on Speed’s 1610 map of The jacket features a Ham Green ceramic head, part of a www.fourcourtspress.ie thirteenth-century jug imported from the Bristol area and Dublin as ‘the hospital’. Also, Alan Hayden reports on his excavation of property recovered from a pit excavated at Thomas Street, Dublin (courtesy of Paul Duffy). Seán Duffy editor plots fronting onto Kevin Street and New Street and what they tell us about the supposed fourteenth-century decline of Dublin. Historical papers include Brian Coleman’s study of taxation and resistance in fifteenth-century Dublin, while Winter 2021 Stephen Hewer examines the oldest surviving original court roll of the Dublin 288pp ills bench, dating from 1290. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-967-3 Seán Duffy is professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College €50 / £45 / $65 Dublin and chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin. Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-966-6 €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 12 EARLY MODERN STUDIES / DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL SERIES Early Modern Studies / Dublin City Council Series

Archives of the Tholsel Court, Dublin Toby Barnard & Bridget McCormack, editors

Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although fragmentary in nature, the surviving archives give an insight into the lives of middle-class Dubliners, who followed a diversity of trades, crafts and callings. The archives highlight the city’s pre-eminence as a port, political, economic and social centre, and magnet for visitors from the provinces. Of most interest is likely to be the ‘praysements’ which were assessments by the sheriffs of Dublin on goods belonging to debtors as these could be distrained in payment of debts. These inventories give an unexpected glimpse of the everyday world of Dublin inhabitants. At the most rudimentary level, the data recoverable from the Tholsel records can add to a named person perhaps a designated occupation, an address (not always in Dublin itself), and, depending on the type of record, whether or not possessed of simple literacy. The value of these records is enhanced by their covering a period in Dublin’s history otherwise rather occluded and this publication will bring this under-utilized source to public attention.

Toby Barnard FBA is emeritus fellow in history at Hertford College, Oxford. Summer 2021 (previously announced) Bridget McCormack is one of Ireland’s leading palaeographers. 640pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-7-6 €55 / £50 / $70

Vindicating Dublin: the story behind the controversial dissolution of the Corporation in 1924 Aodh Quinlivan

Dublin Corporation was dissolved by the Free State government on 20 May 1924, following an inquiry in the Mansion House. According to one prominent historian, the decision to dissolve it was not clear-cut and seemed ‘to give some credence to the belief that the Cosgrave government was determined to reduce the autonomy of local authorities’. This is the first book on this intriguing topic and provides an insight into a controversial and far-reaching episode.

Aodh Quinlivan is director of the Centre for Local and Regional Governance, UCC.

Summer 2021 (previously announced) 200pp Hbk ISBN 978-0-9505488-3-8 €25 / £22.50 / $35 MODERN STUDIES 13

Recently published Modern Studies

The Early Residential Buildings of TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ARCHITECTURE, FINANCING, PEOPLE

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian craftsmanship Christine Casey & Patrick Wyse Jackson, editors

Summer 2021 ‘It is only fitting that one of Dublin’s – indeed 288pp large format, full colour Ireland’s – most elegant buildings should finally be celebrated in a beautiful production Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-968-0 ... It’s a gorgeous hardback ... which is greatly R.A.SOMERVILLE €55 / £50 / $74.50 enhanced by marvellous recent photography’, Joe Culley, History Ireland (2020).

The early residential buildings of Trinity College (2019) 398pp large format, full colour Dublin: architecture, financing, people Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-789-1 R.A. Somerville €50 / £45 / $70

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential buildings of the early Studies in Irish Georgian silver eighteenth century. Among all those red-brick buildings only the Rubrics Alison FitzGerald, editor remains, albeit much altered, to suggest what Trinity College looked like Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors before the 1750s, when replacement of the early buildings began. and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world Why and when were new buildings added to the college, beyond the original of the past. Its making, acquisition and use Quadrangle? How were they funded? Who designed them? Where were tells much about past attitudes and behaviour. This volume, with new research by established materials sourced? What can be said about the architecture of the buildings, and emerging scholars from Ireland and the all of which, apart from the Rubrics, were pulled down in the eighteenth UK, examines the circumstances in which and nineteenth centuries? Who managed their construction on the college’s silver objects were made, sold, valued and behalf, and who carried out the building work? How were essential services dispersed in Georgian Ireland. It considers provided? This book answers all of these questions, and en route it explores specialized branches of the trade including the production of freedom boxes and jewellery, the an almost forgotten event, the disastrous fire of February 1726/7, in which sourcing of metals and materials, the value of at least one house in Library Square was destroyed and several more were inventories as evidence and regional patterns damaged. and preferences. This book builds on recent literature on the history of silver, second-hand The second part of the book explores the community of residents of the early markets, guilds and luxury goods, to recover buildings up to the end of the nineteenth century when the range known as and reconsider Ireland’s silversmithing. ‘Rotten Row’ was pulled down, leaving the Rubrics as the only representative (2020) 208pp large format, full colour of the early college. Where did Trinity’s students come from: geographically, socially, and denominationally? What were residential conditions like? What Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-799-0 is known about college servants? Who lived in the old college buildings? €50 / £45 / $70 Some famous names appear – for example the colonial governor of Connecticut John Winthrop, Oliver Goldsmith, the United Irishman Henry Sheares, Douglas Hyde – along with others who are less well-known but whose stories are nonetheless remarkable. The book ends with a personal memoir of the Rubrics in recent times.

R.A. Somerville, a fellow emeritus of TCD, lectured in economics at Trinity for over forty years. He has a long-standing interest in architectural history and the history of the College. 14 EARLY MODERN / MODERN STUDIES

Early Modern / Studies Recently published

Law and revolution in seventeenth- century Ireland Coleman A. Dennehy, editor

‘The appearance of this new book is to be warmly welcomed ... [It is] a collection of essays including a wide range of chapters on important Autumn 2020 topics such as martial law, war crimes, the post- Cromwellian land settlement, legal training, 312pp ills and the appointment of officials, as well as Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-875-1 individual studies of writings about the law, both learned treatises and the portrayal of the €35 / £30 / $45 law in literary fiction. Unusually, the volume also features an annotated transcription of a manuscript source, the “Black Book” of King’s Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: the Armada, Ireland, Inns between 1649 and 1663, which runs and the wars of the Spanish monarchy, 1578–1606 to 86 pages. It is a handsome book, with [a] high standard of production’, Patrick Little, Francis Kelly Parliamentary History (2020).

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated ‘This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century Ireland and Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of County Sligo in the complex interplay of land, law, religion and September 1588. Known to Irish history for the extraordinary account he politics’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland. wrote of his experiences in Ireland, he survived a hurricane-force storm that A volume in the ILHS series. destroyed his ship and killed most of those on board. A castaway, he found shelter among the Gaelic Irish of the northwest for seven months before he (2020) 384pp was helped to reach Scotland, and later, the Low Countries. But Captain Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-813-3 Cuéllar’s Irish adventure was only one of many in a remarkable military career. Drawing on previously undiscovered documents from Spanish and €55 / £50 / $74.50 Belgian archives, this book chronicles, for the first time, Cuéllar’s entire military service – from the earliest evidence of him as a soldier in 1578, The churchwardens’ accounts of to our final glimpse of him in 1606. For almost three decades Cuéllar the parishes of St Bride, St Michael traversed much of the Spanish empire and beyond: Spain, Portugal, the Low Le Pole and St Stephen, Dublin, Countries, Italy, France, the Caribbean, Brazil and Ireland. As a captain 1663–1702 he was a member of a cohort of officials whose responsibility it was to W.J.R. Wallace, editor recruit, maintain and lead the troops that protected the interests of the ‘This is one of the windows lately opened upon Spanish monarchy abroad. He participated in military actions on land the history of the parishes of the city of Dublin and sea, commanding galleons and troops in some of the most celebrated ... The parish was responsible for the care of the campaigns of the era. Prone to controversy, he had a tendency to clash with poor, and the records and accounts indicate superiors, which led to tribunals of inquiry and courts-martial. Besides an in- how money was collected and paid out to depth reassessment of his Irish experiences, this study explores the rise and people in need, very often women and children. We learn that one Welsh woman was given her fall of this enigmatic captain in the military profession. The story of Captain fare to return to her native land, but she did Cuéllar’s career encapsulates, in vivid detail, the life of a soldier of the late not go, and so was refused any further help. sixteenth century. Perhaps even more often, the cost was paid by the parish of burying poor men, women and ‘A brilliant read capturing the amazing life and career of one of the most children who had died’, Mark Gardner, Search: enigmatic captains to have ever served in the Spanish military’, Sligo A Journal (2020). Champion. (2020) 208pp Francis Kelly is a native of Manorhamilton, County Leitrim. An alumnus Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-835-5 of NUIG and UCC, he has written extensively about the Spanish Armada in €50 / £45 / $70 Ireland. LOCAL HISTORY 15 Local History

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tom hunt.qxp_james kelly cover 18/12/2020 14:58 Page 1 reports from Prussia Street. However, the Dublin Peadar Cowan (1903–62): Westmeath MAYNOOTH STUDIES IN LOCAL HISTORY MAYNOOTH STUDIES IN LOCAL HISTORY Cattle Market was closed by 1973. This study Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a royal grant in the Book of Kells Kells of Book the in grant royal a and Ruairc Ua Tigernán Tingernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth- century royal grant in the Book of Kells GAA administrator and political examines the market’s final years, between 1955 Denis Casey

King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour – and 1973, and how its decline mirrored that of the these are some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the maverick long-lived king of Bréifne (modern Cavan-Leitrim). He is so bound up with a narrative of the English invasion of Ireland that pivots around the abduction of his wife, Derbforgaill, that it is often forgotten that he was also a success- ful king, who ruled for fifty years and presided over a rapid expansion of his traditional livestock fairs, which were eclipsed by kingdom at the expense of his neighbours. This study aims to reveal a king Peadar Cowan (1903–62): at work, by analysing a substantial grant of land in modern Co. Meath Tom Hunt (stretching from Dulane to Slane) that Tigernán made to the church of Kells, which was originally recorded in the famous Book of Kells. His donation Westmeath GAA offered him political and military advantages, as well as an obvious outlet for farmer-owned marts. It will discuss how the growth his piety. In exploring medieval Irish kings’ use of land and their property- related relationships with the church, we gain an insight into why it was pos- administrator and political sible for contemporaries to hail Ua Ruairc, on his death, as ‘a man of great power for a long time’. Denis Casey Denis maverick Imprisoned during the War of Independence, of the marts exposed and highlighted tensions Denis Casey holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has taught and researched in universi- ties in the UK, Finland and Ireland. He is also the author of The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth’s Peadar Cowan accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty within the farming community, while also exploring Irish primer, which was published in this series in 2016. Tom Hunt and served as an officer in the until the city-country relationships and interactions This book appears in the Maynooth Studies in Local History series (general editor: Raymond Gillespie). The publisher’s website (www.fourcourtspress.ie) lists the 148 titles published to date, and gives some information about the purpose of the series. 1931. While based in Athlone, he became which stemmed from operating a very rural

www.fourcourtspress.ie involved in the Westmeath Gaelic Athletic enterprise in an urban setting. Association. After retiring from the army, he ISBN 978-1-84682-972-7 became involved in fringe politics before joining the Labour Party and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Dáil Éireann in the david byrne.qxp_james kelly cover 18/12/2020 15:08 Page 1 Meath–Westmeath constituency. He resigned The impact of the Great Famine on MAYNOOTH STUDIES IN LOCAL HISTORY MAYNOOTH STUDIES IN LOCAL HISTORY Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a royal grant in the Book of Kells Kells of Book the in grant royal a and Ruairc Ua Tigernán from the Labour Party in 1944 and foundedTingernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth- century royal grant in the Book of Kells Sir William Palmer’s estates in Mayo, the short-lived radical socialist Vanguard Denis Casey King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour – these are some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the 1840–69 long-lived king of Bréifne (modern Cavan-Leitrim). He is so bound up with a narrative of the English invasion of Ireland that pivots around the abduction organization. He was also involved in the of his wife, Derbforgaill, that it is often forgotten that he was also a success- ful king, who ruled for fifty years and presided over a rapid expansion of his kingdom at the expense of his neighbours. This study aims to reveal a king The impact of the at work, by analysing a substantial grant of land in modern Co. Meath David Byrne (stretching from Dulane to Slane) that Tigernán made to the church of Kells, Republican Prisoners’ Release Association andwhich was originally recorded in the famous Book of Kells. His donation offered him political and military advantages, as well as an obvious outlet for Great Famine on his piety. In exploring medieval Irish kings’ use of land and their property- related relationships with the church, we gain an insight into why it was pos- sible for contemporaries to hail Ua Ruairc, on his Sir William Palmer’s death, as ‘a man of great power for a long time’. was a founder member of Clann na Poblachta in Casey Denis This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir estates in Mayo, 1840–69 Denis Casey holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has taught and researched in universi- July 1946. He retained his seat as an independentties in the UK, Finland and Ireland. He is also the author of The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth’s William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest Irish primer, which was published in this series in 2016. in 1951 and supported Fianna Fáil in the David Byrne in the county. It describes the estates’ social This book appears in the Maynooth Studies in Local History series (general editor: Raymond Gillespie). The publisher’s website (www.fourcourtspress.ie) lists the 148 vote to form a new government. Cowan wastitles published to date, and gives some information about the purpose of the series. and economic structures, and its tenants’ living unconditional in his support of Noel Browne and www.fourcourtspress.ie conditions and experiences before, during and his doomed Mother and Child Scheme. In his after the Famine. It explores the relationship Lord second term in the Dáil, he was a lone voice when Palmer, an absentee landlord, had with his tenants he raised the issue of institutional abuse. Cowan’s and the influence and control he had on the personal and professional life unravelled in the locality, its politics and the lives of the community late 1950s, he served a prison sentence and on on his estates. ISBN 978-1-84682-973-4 his release wrote Dungeons deep, an analysis of the Irish prison system. ISBN 978-1-84682-970-3 16 MODERN STUDIES

Modern Studies Recently published

The Politics of Dublin Corporation 1840–1900 FROM REFORM TO EXPANSION

JAMES H. MURPHY

The Politics of Dublin Corporation Design for Catalogue A

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The politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840–1900: from reform to expansion James H. Murphy

‘This book offers a political Corporation between the Municipal Summer 2020 Corporations (Ireland) Act of 1840 and the expansion of the city’s electorate and its 272pp large format, full colour boundaries at the end of the century ... Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-962-8 [W]here the book stands out is in how Murphy illuminates the day-to-day intrigue, rancor, and €25 / £22.50 / $35 bellicosity of the corporation’s debates ... The book is likely to be an often-cited reference work for many years to come ... [I]t provides a Vinegar Hill: the last stand of the Wexford rebels of valuable framework ... in terms of the workings 1798 of the corporation, its key personalities, and the ways social issues percolated into political Ronan O’Flaherty & Jacqui Hynes, editors debate’, Richard Butler, H-Albion (2021).

On 21 June 1798, 20,000 men, women and children found themselves (2020) 212pp trapped on a hill outside Enniscorthy, County Wexford, facing a Crown force Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-853-9 of some 15,000 troops led by no less than four generals and 16 general officers. It was the dying days of a rebellion that had shaken British rule in €50 / £45 / $70 Ireland to its core. The army that now surrounded the hill was determined that none should escape. Now a multi-disciplinary research programme Monksgrange: portrait of an Irish involving archaeologists, historians, folklorists, architectural historians house and family, 1769–1969 and military specialists provides startling new insight into what actually Philip Bull happened at Vinegar Hill on that fateful day in June 1798. Using cutting- edge technology and traditional research, the sequence of the battle jumps ‘The destruction and decline of the Irish country house in the first half of the twentieth sharply into focus, beginning with the ‘shock-and awe’ bombardment at century due to debt, arson and neglect has dawn, the attack on Enniscorthy and the hill, and the critical defence of the yielded a rich vein of scholarly work over the bridge across the Slaney that allowed so many of the defenders on the hill past twenty years or so ... The publication of to escape. this book ... is another significant addition to that growing corpus … Although the story is Ronan O’Flaherty is an archaeologist and independent researcher, and essentially rooted in County Wexford, readers chair of The Longest Day Research Project. Jacqui Hynes is a folklorist and far and wide will take a deep interest in this book ... Monksgrange twice survived being teacher, a former manager of the National 1798 Rebellion Centre and a burned down: in 1798 and again in 1922. If member of The Longest Day Research Project. it had not survived, its voluminous archive would almost certainly have been lost. As historians, we are thankful that the house was not destroyed, and thankful too to Philip Bull for this meticulous study’, Ciarán Reilly, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (2020).

(2019) 288pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-786-0 €50 / £45 / $70 MODERN STUDIES 17 Modern Studies

The rise and fall of the Orange Order during the Famine: from reformation to Dolly’s Brae Daragh Curran

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Orange Order of Ireland fell into and emerged from apparent extinction into a vigorous resurrection – which was then stopped in its tracks at Dolly’s Brae. This book explores the causes and consequences of these wrenching reversals of fortune that Orangemen went through at this pivotal time in history. Formed in 1795, the Orange Order quickly grew into a formidable popular organization, with a reported peak membership of 200,000. However some forty years later, against a background of major social, political and economic change and in the face of mounting government pressure, the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland made the forced decision to disband the Order.

This widespread Protestant association did not simply disappear – it continued to thrive at local level. By 1845 it had been officially revived amid fears of renewed Catholic agitation, and within the next four years it had returned to its previous popular standing. This revival was far from straightforward: economic hardship, the devastation of the Famine, internal dispute, the widening of relations between the social classes and the issue of tenant right threatened to derail it. However, through it all, parades, processions and celebrations continued, and the Order’s Spring 2021 core membership clung to their traditions. The Order’s revival gained momentum 224pp, ills from the failed Young Ireland rebellion in 1848, which galvanized Protestant Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-864-5 resolve. Offers of Orange assistance to quash the rebellion were not taken up, €50 / £45 / $65 but for a brief period the Order could claim the government acceptance that the defeat of the rebels brought about. However, the notorious and fatal clash with Catholics at Dolly’s Brae, County Down, in 1849 invoked the ire of the government and brought the ascent of the Orange Order to a sudden and shuddering halt.

Daragh Curran is an independent historian whose research interests include associational culture, Ulster politics, and the social history of . He is the author of The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45: a society in transition (Dublin, 2014).

Representing Belfast’s pasts Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editors

From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these changes has resulted in a reimagination of the city’s past to make it useable for the present. That has taken many forms. As the town grew in the nineteenth century, local historians, most particularly George Benn, provided Belfast with a narrative that chronicled and explained its past and charted the topographical development from small village to international industrial city. Benn and his fellow antiquarians were not alone. Others joined in the quest for a useable past for this emerging city. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries novelists, artists, travellers, photographers, Irish-language enthusiasts and memoir writers all created their own images of Belfast’s past. These essays REPRESENTING reveal the works they created in an effort to explain their own worlds to BELFAST’S contemporaries through the medium of the past. PASTS Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright teach in the Department of JamesRaymond W. Gillespie Houlihan & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright e d i t o r s History, MU. They have each published extensively on the history of Belfast.

Winter 2021 (previously announced) 240pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-868-3 €55 / £50 / $74.50 18 MODERN STUDIES Modern Studies

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660–1800 Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors Politics and political culture in Ireland from Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged Restoration to Union, with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of 1660–1800 political power through institutions such as the vice regal court, parliament or Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors the law. The essays in this volume take an organic approach to the way in which power is made manifest and distributed across the social world, considering such diverse themes as the role of political life in identity formation and maintenance, civic unity and the problem of urban poverty in Dublin, the role of money in the exercise of authority by Dublin Corporation, public ritual and ceremony in political culture, rumour and rancour in provincial Ireland, the public and the growth of Dublin city, and the Belfast/Bordeaux merchant, John Black III’s vision of Belfast society in the era of improvement. By focusing on the idea of political cultures and how they intersected with more formal political structures, these essays reveal new and unexpected disjunctions that contemporaries were well aware of, and carefully managed, but which have been marginalized by historians. This volume resituates power where it was exercised on a daily basis and in doing so opens fascinating windows into past worlds in pre-modern Politics and Political Culture Design Set 2 H

Summer 2021 www.anu-design.ie 04/12/20 Ireland.

256pp Contributors: Toby Barnard, Vincent Comerford, Bernadette Cunningham, Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-974-1 Raymond Gillespie, David Hayton, James Kelly, Colm Lennon, Mary Ann Lyons, €55 / £50 / $74.50 Brendan Twomey, Jonathan Wright.

Raymond Gillespie and Mary Ann Lyons teach in the Department of History, MU. James Kelly teaches in the Department of History, DCU.

Limestone and river: essays on Limerick history in honour of Liam Irwin Brian Hodkinson & Catherine Swift, editors

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Limestone and River Essays on Limerick history in honour of Liam Irwin Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles of Lough Gur, the Norman strongholds of Brian Hodkinson & Catherine Swift, editors Askeaton and Adare as well as King John’s Castle, the Treaty stone, the Georgian quarter of Newtown Pery, Cleeves Factory and Park all stand proudly within this landscape today as monumental testimony to the region’s character, a place where the peoples of Ireland and Britain have clashed, meshed and evolved into a distinctive whole.

With such a vibrant cultural inheritance, it is hardly surprising that Limerick is also the home of one of the oldest and biggest of Ireland’s local history societies, first founded as the Limerick Naturalists Field Club in 1892 and now the Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society (TAHS). This volume of essays on Limerick city and county has been put together in honour of Liam Irwin, retired Head of History in Mary Immaculate College and leading member of the society

Limestone and River Design version for catalogue 2 for forty years, by his many admirers and friends. [email protected] 2021 www.anu-design.ie 17/12/20 Contributors include: Charlotte Murphy (TAHS); Catherine Swift (Mary I.); 288pp colour ills Lenore Fischer (ind.); Úna Nic Énrí (Mary I.); Ursula Callaghan (TAHS); Tom Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-984-0 Donovan (TAHS); Maura Cronin (Mary I.); Brian Hodkinson (TAHS); Gerard Curtin (ind.); Matthew Potter (TAHS); Tadhg Moloney (ind.); Bernadette Whelan €50 / £45 / $70 (UL); Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUIG); Rose Cleary (UCC); Milo Spillane (TAHS). MODERN STUDIES 19 Modern Studies Recently published

Country House Collections Their Lives and Afterlives

Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway editors

Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Summer 2021 This book is ‘aimed at the general historical public as well as those with more specialist 320pp large format, full colour interests … Both types of reader will benefit Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-975-8 from not “pick and mixing” and will enjoy reading the whole volume as each essay is €50 / £45 / $70 clear and stimulates wider reflections as well as providing new understandings … Ranging from the mid-eighteenth century until 1939 Country house collections: their lives and afterlives and covering shooting, racing, hunting, Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors yachting, golf, cricket, outdoor education, house building, collecting, astronomy and travel, they illustrate perfectly how This volume of essays explores a range of country house collections in imaginatively speculative are the portmanteau Ireland, the UK, US and Europe. It examines how collections were built up categories of the volume’s title … indoor over time, how they were dispersed or destroyed, and how they have been pastimes and hobbies were inevitably more interpreted and valued. Among the topics considered are the impact of eclectic for men and women as a number of exhibitions, auctions and tax systems, private versus institutional collectors, the essays illustrate, ranging from the passion for taxidermy, photography, architecture, the range of audiences who appreciate art, and how collections are made to astronomy, constructing personal memoirs tell national stories. and collecting exotic pets … An attractive and interesting volume’, Allen Warren, Family & Contents: Philip Cottrell (TCD), George Scharf’s survey of English country Community History (2020). house collections 1856–7; Terence Dooley (MU), Carton House and its contents; Stephen Hague (Rowan University, NJ), Alternate approaches (2019) 320pp ills to country house collections in America; Judith Hill (UL), Transforming Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-806-5 ; Salvijus Kulevicius (Vilnius U), Lithuanian country house €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 collections; William Laffan (ind.), Collecting for the Irish country house, c.1950–2020; James Miller (Sotheby’s), The rise and decline of the country house sale 1977–2020; Robert O’Byrne (Irish Georgian Society), The library Women and the country house in at Marlfield, County Tipperary; Wendy Philips (Sotheby’s), Checks and Ireland and Britain balances: respecting private owners and protecting the national heritage; Terence Dooley, Maeve O’Riordan & Elena Porter (Oxford U), Contextualizing value at country house contents Christopher Ridgway, editors auctions in interwar England; Christopher Ridgway (Castle Howard), New In this volume of essays, the authors present walls for old pictures: the Castle Howard bequest to the National Gallery; a spectrum of female house owners, residents James Rothwell (National Trust), The history of plate collections and their and caretakers who were far more than display in National Trust houses; Christopher Warleigh-Lack (Historic Royal bit players in the histories of families and big houses. The women featuring in these Palaces), Hillsborough Castle; Lesley Whiteside (ind.), Private and family essays were all agents in their own destinies, archives in the Irish country house taking charge of their lives (as much as was possible within a repressive society), as Terence Dooley is director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish well as influencing the lives of others. They Houses and Estates, History Department, MU. Christopher Ridgway is were committed to organizing households, curator at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and adjunct professor at MU. Together supervising architects and builders, raising they have edited several volumes including Sport and leisure in the Irish and families, mobilizing political support, acquiring culinary expertise, assisting husbands or sons, British country house Women and (Dublin, 2019); with Maeve O’Riordan, writing fiction, travelling overseas, and, in one the country house in Ireland and Britain (Dublin, 2018); The country house instance, undoing a late husband’s work. and the Great War: Irish and British experiences (Dublin, 2016) and The Irish country house: its past, present and future (Dublin, 2015). (2018) 296pp ills Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-647-4 €29.95 / £24.95 / $39.95 20 IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY SERIES

Irish Legal History Society Series Other books in the ILHS series

The operations of the , 1613–48 Bríd McGrath

This is the first operational account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Summer 2021 (previously announced) Ireland, when the parliament’s structures and operations were established in a manner that 320pp ills would endure until the Act of Union.

Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-871-3 Bríd McGrath is editor of The Minute Book €55 / £50 / $74.50 of the Corporation of Clonmel, 1608–1649 (Dublin, 2006), Acts of the Corporation of Coleraine, 1623–1669 (Dublin, 2017) and, The reminiscences of Ignatius O’Brien, lord with Aidan Clarke, of the Letterbook of George, 16th earl of Kildare (Dublin, 2013). chancellor of Ireland, 1913–18: a life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster Winter 2021 (previously announced) Edited and with an introduction by Daire Hogan and Patrick Maume 320pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-814-0 Ignatius O’Brien was the youngest son of a struggling Cork business family. €55 / £50 / $74.50 After somewhat unhappy experiences at a Cork Vincentian school and the Catholic University of Ireland, he studied to become a barrister while supporting himself as a reporter for Dublin newspapers. Over time he Recently published built up a reputation in property and commercial law, and an ultimately successful career led to him being appointed a law officer and later lord Irish speakers, interpreters and chancellor under the post-1906 Liberal governments. the courts, 1754–1921 Mary Phelan He avoided party politics, but was a moderate home ruler who attributed the troubles besetting relations between Britain and Ireland to a failure to ‘One of the strengths of Mary Phelan’s study of interpretation in the Irish courts prior to the implement moderate reforms in time. After being created Baron Shandon on creation of an independent Irish state in 1922 his removal as lord chancellor, he moved to England, where as a member of is the manner in which it throws up questions the House of Lords he was involved in various peace initiatives. about the limitations of interpretation services even as provided by law. Another His reminiscences of and reflections on the relatively self-contained world is her demonstration of the relevance of the of mid-Victorian Cork, of student and journalistic work and play in Land relationship between power and language War Dublin, of the struggles of an aspiring barrister on circuit and of the in that context ... Resorting not only to surviving legal records, but also to quite frank declining years of , provide new insights into Irish life in the newspaper reports of the time, Phelan frames closing decades of the union. He also gives his impressions of prominent clearly important and abiding issues around contemporaries, including Charles Stewart Parnell, Edward Carson and Lord matters such as accuracy and the need for Chief Justice Peter O’Brien (‘Peter the Packer’). interpreters to take an oath in that context, levels of remuneration required to ensure The publication by the Irish Legal History Society of this important memoir is a reasonable standard of translation, the accompanied by detailed notes and commentaries on its legal and political danger of bribery and the perceived partiality or impartiality of interpreters where there context by Daire Hogan and Patrick Maume. is not a full-time, professional interpretation service ... Mary Phelan’s book is a useful point Daire Hogan is a solicitor and former president of the Irish Legal History of reference for anyone concerned about the Society. Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy’s provision of interpretation services and their Dictionary of Irish biography, who has published extensively on nineteenth- implications for law and the legal system’, and twentieth-century Irish history. Colum Kenny, Cambridge Law Journal (2020).

(2019) 286pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-811-9 €55 / £50 / $74.95 MODERN STUDIES 21 Modern Studies Recently published

TERESA BALL AND LORETO EDUCATION Convents and the Colonial World 1794–1875

The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand, 1807–1922 Ann Power

‘[This book] is by far the best of its type I have read over the last decade. Power’s account of Autumn 2021 the Brigidine Sisters is particularly refreshing ... The account throughout of the growth and 256pp colour ills spread of the order is excellent. It is lengthy but Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-976-5 never boring. It is written in a most engaging DEIRDRE RAFTERY style ... all based on an outstanding set of €40 / £35 / $55 primary sources obtained from a very large number of archives. For me, the most powerful section in the book is that which deals with Teresa Ball and Loreto education: convents and the lay sisters. Indeed, this is the best and most colonial world, 1794–1875 honest account I have ever read on this group of still largely “hidden” group of sisters’, Tom Deirdre Raftery O’Donoghue, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (2019). Educated at the Bar Convent, York, Teresa Ball became a pioneer of girls’ education when she returned to Ireland, opening Loreto Abbey convent and (2018) 462pp ills boarding school in 1822. The Dublin convent quickly attracted the daughters Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-739-6 of the Irish elite, not only as pupils but also as postulants and novices. The €60 / £55 / $80 rapid expansion of Loreto convents in Ireland helped to provide a supply of nuns who founded a network of Loreto convents in nineteenth-century India, Mauritius, Gibraltar, Canada, England, Spain and Australia. An Ulster slave owner in the revolutionary Atlantic: the life This book commences with an original and important study of the Balls and letters of John Black and their social world in Dublin at the start of the nineteenth century. Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editor Their network included members of the Catholic Committee, the Catholic Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for Church hierarchy, and many benevolent public figures. The book gives new the West Indies in 1771 and never returned. insight into how women operated in the margins of this Catholic world. The Settling first in Grenada, he moved on to education of the Ball children, at York and Stonyhurst, positioned them for Trinidad in 1784 and established himself as a major slave owner and a prominent figure success in Catholic society, at a time when the confidence of their Church among the island’s planter elite. This book was growing in Ireland. presents and contextualizes a series of twenty revealing letters written by John Black during The youngest of the Ball children was professed as a nun in 1816, in the York the period 1799 to 1836. Addressed to his convent of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), and returned to brother George, who lived outside Belfast, his Dublin as Mother Teresa Ball, in 1821. With the encouragement of Dr Daniel letters reveal the close connections tying Ulster Murray, Teresa Ball established the IBVM at Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, to the West Indies during the early nineteenth century. They shed light on the difficulties in 1822. The convent educated the elite, and also attracted the daughters of mercantile life in an age of political and of the growing Catholic middle class. The book draws on extensive archival economic unrest and, above all, offer a vivid records, to reconstruct the history of the convent, showing how it became portrait of a world that revolved around the the ‘motherhouse’ to Loreto convents around the globe. institution of slavery – a world of which Ulster was emphatically a part.

The international network of Loreto convents expanded quickly in the ‘Well-presented and thoroughly annotated [this nineteenth century, providing schooling for the Catholic colonial world. How collection] of correspondence is as welcome as did Teresa Ball prepare her nuns to negotiate this world? Where did they it is timely’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland. go, and what kind of distinctive ‘Loreto education’ did they bring with them? The book answers these questions, while also providing a new and important (2019) 184pp account of global Catholic schooling, and some of the Irish women behind it. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-736-5 €45 / £40 / $65 Deirdre Raftery is professor of the History of Education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 22 MODERN STUDIES

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The best address in town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and Spectral Mansions its first residents, 1720–80 The Making of a Dublin Tenement, 1800–1914 Autumn 2021 (previously announced) Melanie Hayes TIMOTHY MURTAGH 240pp large format, full colour Once Dublin’s most exclusive residential street, Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-867-6 throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta €30 / £26.95 / $39.95 Street was home to the country’s foremost figures from church, military and state. Here,

Spectral Mansions Design Set 1 F in this elegant setting on the north side of the

[email protected] www.anu-design.ie 20/12/19 city, peers rubbed shoulders with property Spectral mansions: the making of a Dublin tenement, tycoons, clerics consorted with social climbers 1800–1914 and celebrated military men mixed with the leading lights of the capital’s beau monde, Timothy Murtagh establishing one of the principle arenas of elite power in Georgian Ireland. In 1800, Dublin was one of the largest and most impressive cities in Europe. The city’s townhouses and squares represented the pinnacle of Georgian Looking behind the red-brick facades of the once-grand terraced town houses, this richly elegance. Henrietta Street was synonymous with this world of cultural illustrated volume focuses on the people who refinement, being one of the earliest and grandest residential districts in originally populated these spaces, delineating Dublin. At the end of the eighteenth century, the street was home to some of the rich social and architectural history of the most powerful members of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. Yet, less than a Henrietta Street during the first fifty years of century later, Dublin had been transformed from the playground of the elite, its existence. into a city renowned for its deprivation and vast slums. Despite once being Commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage ‘the best address in town’, by 1900 almost every house on Henrietta Street Office in conjunction with the 14 Henrietta was in use as tenements, some shockingly overcrowded. Street museum, by weaving the fascinating and often colourful histories of the original How did this happen? How did a location like Henrietta Street go from a residents around the framework of the buildings, in repopulating the houses with their street of mansions to one of tenements? And what was life like for those original occupants and offering a window into who lived within the walls of these houses? This is a story of adaptation, not the lives carried on within, this book presents only of buildings but of people. It is a story of decline but also of resilience. a captivating portrait of Dublin’s premier Spectral mansions charts the evolution of Henrietta Street over the period Georgian street, when it was the best address 1800 to 1914. Commencing with the Act of Union and finishing on the in town. eve of the First World War, the book investigates the nature and origins ‘This handsomely illustrated book recounts of Dublin’s housing crisis in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. the stories and social aspects of the first Commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office in conjunction with sixty years of the street ... [It] illuminates the social and architectural history of the the 14 Henrietta Street museum, the book uses the story of one street to street alongside engaging biographies of the explore the history of an entire city. occupants’, Irish Times.

Timothy Murtagh holds a PhD from TCD. Since 2015, he has acted as a (2020) 308pp large format, full colour historical consultant to the 14 Henrietta Street museum, as well as being a Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-847-8 committee member of the Dublin Historical Research Network. €30 / £26.95 / $39.95 MODERN STUDIES 23

Recently published Modern Studies

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland Arthur Gibney Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

‘Gibney’s scrupulous research into eighteenth- Spring 2021 century building practices is a treasure trove 200pp, ills of lore that will intrigue and entertain in equal measure. Since its publication, this book has Hbk ISBN 978-0-9500512-6-0 become an essential historiographical resource €24.95 / £22.50 / $39.95 for architectural historians, shining new light on the visual interpretation of our architectural heritage. Gibney’s scrutiny and considerable Building healthy homes: Dublin Corporation’s first expertise ensures that we all know what we are looking at now’, Carol Pollard, Irish housing schemes, 1880–1925 Historical Studies. Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus (2017) 296pp large format, full colour During the twentieth century, Dublin Corporation transformed the urban Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-638-2 landscape of Dublin. Its many housing developments sought to end a €35 / £30 / $50 housing and public health crisis of immense proportions, the legacy of the nineteenth century. Its early engagement with the housing crisis was The history and heritage of St tentative and involved mostly small inner city schemes, many of which are James’s Hospital, Dublin unknown to present-day Dubliners. Yet, these schemes were built well and Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley most continue to be lived in and appreciated. This book is a commemoration ‘A fascinating read for anyone with an interest and an analysis of the early schemes from the 1880s to the late 1920s. in the history of Dublin, of Irish society or These are examined in some detail and the book is comprehensively healthcare ... It is filled with characters beyond illustrated with maps, photographs and block plans. Housing policy evolved the inmates, patients, administrators and during this time and the reader will learn that the issues faced and the clinicians that walked its corridors, dormitories solutions found remain relevant to the present day. The reader will also meet and wards ... The book is comprehensively referenced and illustrated, many of these many of the significant people who shaped the city; people such as Charles illustrations from private collections that have Cameron, H.T. O’Rourke and P.C. Cowan. The text ends with a detailed not recently or previously been published. One account of Marino and Drumcondra. These schemes, especially the former, of these, the eighteenth-century seal of the represent the culmination of policy development and were seen as models workhouse, presents the motto “The diligent for the future. The fact that they remain sought-after today is a testament to hand maketh rich”. The history and heritage of St James’s Hospital, Dublin is a diligent work the quality of that vision. of many years by the authors and, in addition to being an exemplary work of history, is rich in Joseph Brady is an urban geographer and formerly of UCD. He is the detail, interest and anecdote’, Dublin Review of author of many works on the development of Dublin and co-editor of the Books (2019). Making of Dublin City series of books, published by Four Courts Press. Ruth McManus is associate professor of Geography in DCU. She is the (2018) 528pp large format, full colour author of Dublin 1910–1940: shaping the city and suburbs (2002) and Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-607-8 Crampton built (2008), and co-editor of Leaders of the city (2013). Her €40 / £35 / $60 interests include urban geography, suburban history, population, heritage, tourism and geography education and she is co-editor of the Making of Dublin City series. 24 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 Mary Ann Lyons & Dáithí Ó Corráin, series editors Antrim Brian Feeney

At the beginning of the twentieth century Antrim had the largest Presbyterian population on the island of Ireland. It also encompassed most of Belfast – the largest city in Ireland – which dominated the economy of the north-east. Belfast was tightly integrated into Britain’s politics and economy, and the vast majority of its inhabitants, who were overwhelmingly Presbyterian and unionist like the ANTRIM rest of the county, were determined to keep it that way. The Irish Revolution, In Antrim there was no land war, the majority of the population supported the LIMERICK ROSCOMMON1912–23 Crown forces, and only a minority voted for home rule. Belfast was the centre of Ulster unionist resistance to home rule, and the location of the headquarters of

BRIAN FEENEY the Ulster Unionist Party and the UVF. This carefully researched study explores the political, economic and social links between Ulster unionist leaders in Belfast and the Conservative Party in Britain, which proved decisive in obstructing the MARY ANN LYONS & DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN, SERIES EDITORS Irish Revolution.

The Irish Revolution: Antrim Design Set 2 C The book examines the outbreak of intense sectarian violence in Belfast and Spring 2021 (previously announced) [email protected] www.anu-design.ie 10/10/19 Lisburn in 1920, the ‘Belfast Pogrom’. It describes the reconstitution of the UVF 192pp ills as the Ulster Special Constabulary and, controlled by unionist politicians, the Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-860-7 USC’s role in repressing the nationalist community. Using recently released €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 documents, Feeney analyses the personnel, actions and constraints the IRA’s 3rd Northern Division faced, and provides the first comprehensive account of the campaign in north Antrim.

Brian Feeney was head of history in St Mary’s University College, Belfast. A columnist with the Irish News, his publications include Sinn Féin: a hundred turbulent years (Dublin, 2002), A pocket history of the Troubles (Dublin, 2004), and as co-author, Lost lives: the stories of the men, women and children killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Edinburgh, 1999).

Donegal Pauric Travers

This new assessment of Donegal in the revolutionary period expands and refines our understanding of the nature of the Irish Revolution itself. While not in the vanguard of the Irish Revolution, the county was far from a disinterested bystander. Events elsewhere cast long shadows on all aspects of life, but the Donegal experience was active as well as passive.

The political events of the decade of revolution in Donegal examined in this book are set firmly in the context of the underlying social and economic background. The experiences of the different regions in a disparate county are highlighted, as well as the conflicting loyalties of unionists, home rulers and separatists. Religion and the shadow of partition loom large. The emergence of rival paramilitary groups of Irish and Ulster Volunteers in response to the home rule bill threatened to spill over into communal conflict. This was averted, at least temporarily, by the outbreak of the First World War which had a profound impact. The radicalization of opinion in the county after 1916 and the victory of Sinn Féin and the eclipse of both the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Ancient Order of Hibernians presaged a fundamental shift in allegiances and a successful military and administrative challenge to the legitimacy of British control locally. The IRA campaign in Donegal began slowly but grew in intensity during 1920–1. The imposition of partition had a deep and abiding impact in Donegal, not least on the unionist community in border areas, and contributed to the bitterness and intensity of the split in the nationalist movement over the Treaty and of the Civil War which followed.

Pauric Travers, a native of County Donegal, is an historian and educator. A graduate of the National University of Ireland and the Australian National University, he is president emeritus of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.

Autumn 2021 | 240pp ills, Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-978-9 | €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES 25

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 Mary Ann Lyons & Dáithí Ó Corráin, series editors

Roscommon John Burke

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while clinging to old economic priorities. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel the local economy and sustain the county’s people, the fight for land was the ever-present backdrop to Roscommon’s early twentieth-century history. By 1912, the organization that had provided leadership in that fight – the Irish Parliamentary Party – was on the cusp of achieving home rule, a measure believed to have the potential to settle the land issue. The need to protect the home rule bill saw thousands in Roscommon join the Irish Volunteers and proclaim their opposition to anti-home rule unionists.

The First World War led to the suspension of home rule and a call by Irish MPs for their followers to support the British war effort. However, a combination of factors caused many in Roscommon to reassess their political allegiance. Sensationally, in February 1917, Roscommon elected the first Sinn Féin-backed MP. This proved a decisive step in the demise of the Irish Parliamentary Party and the success of Sinn Féin, which reinvigorated the fight for the land as part of its efforts for a republic.

Summer 2021 (previously announced) In 1919 Roscommon men took up arms against the British to pursue Sinn Féin 192pp ills aims, only to turn the weapons on one another three years later when conflict over the continued pursuit of the Irish Republic led to civil war. In tracing the Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-807-2 history of Roscommon during these years of instability, Burke’s careful research €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 has produced a comprehensive and accessible study that illuminates and explains the changes and continuities that defined the period.

John Burke holds a PhD in history from NUIG. Among other works, he is the author of Athlone, 1900–1923: politics, revolution and civil war (Dublin, 2015).

Fermanagh Daniel Purcell

In 1912, lay awkwardly between two competing and often hostile communities – the Ulster unionists in the north and the Irish nationalists in the south. An even population split made it one of the few counties in which a true political and later military contest between unionism and nationalism took place.

This is the first in-depth examination of the Irish Revolution in Fermanagh and its political, economic and social context. Dan Purcell reveals how political tensions initially played out on the political trail and at local government level rather than in militant action. The initial radicalization of the Ulster unionist movement in the county and the response from nationalists are assessed, as are various legal and illegal electoral strategies deployed by both sides to secure local political dominance. The First World War saw strong recruitment in Fermanagh as both communities, particularly unionists, answered the call of their political leaders to enlist.

Although Fermanagh appeared calm and seemed to have been spared the violence witnessed in other counties after 1916, in reality tensions were running high as both communities strove to avoid direct provocation of the other. The Government of Ireland Act (1920), which divided Ireland into two jurisdictions, placed Fermanagh in the new state of Northern Ireland and ushered in a more militant phase. In the aftermath of the establishment of the border, the key events of the revolutionary period in the county included the sack of Roslea, the IRA’s ‘invasion’ of Belleek and the formation of the Ulster Special Constabulary. During 1920–3 unionists in Fermanagh vigorously defended what they held, while nationalists proved surprisingly willing to accept their situation in the misplaced hope that the Boundary Commission would resolve the border issue.

Daniel Purcell completed his PhD at TCD in 2018 under the supervision of Dr Anne Dolan and Dr David Fitzpatrick.

Winter 2021 | 192pp ills, Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-977-2 | €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 26 20TH -CENTURY STUDIES The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 Mayo Joost Augusteijn

The land question had a crucial formative influence on Mayo politics in the decades before the First World War and this book shows the part played by many prominent nationalist figures such as Davitt, O’Brien, Dillon and MacBride in shaping the political landscape in Mayo. It explores how the Irish Parliamentary Party’s very powerful position, built upon a solid local support base during the Land War, was successfully challenged by Sinn Féin after 1916. The impact of the First World War on this shift within local politics and on the position of more marginal groups in Mayo, notably unionists and labour activists, is also assessed. Augusteijn highlights how a small group of republican activists, operating in a few localities, gradually radicalized and became involved in conflict with the authorities, taking with them ever growing sections of Mayo’s population. This explains the strength of the republican counter-state in the county, why force was only used there towards the end of the struggle for independence, and how it came to have one of the leading anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War.

Joost Augusteijn, a senior lecturer at Leiden U, has published extensively on the Irish Revolution.

Autumn 2021 (previously announced) | 240pp ills, Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-585-9 | €24.95 / £22.50 / $35

Previously published in this series Limerick John O’Callaghan Kildare ‘The revolutionary decade has produced compelling books covering the social and political Seamus Cullen micro-histories of the period ... Limerick: the Irish ‘The study challenges the depiction of Kildare as Revolution, 1912–23 considers the social, political KILDARE a “quiet county” during the War of Independence and military background [in the county]’, Irish The Irish Revolution, LIMERICK ROSCOMMON1912–23 by highlighting the pivotal role it played in Times. ISBN 978-1-84682-742-6 (2018).

SEAMUS CULLEN the intelligence war ...’, Conor Forrest, Kildare

MARY ANN LYONS & DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN, SERIES EDITORS Nationalist. ISBN 978-1-84682-837-9 (2020). Monaghan

The Irish Revolution: Kildare Design Set 2 A [email protected] www.anu-design.ie 17/10/19 Terence Dooley Leitrim ‘A clear-eyed commitment to uncovering the Pat McGarty experience of revolution in Monaghan, however messy or disillusioning, informs Dooley’s general ‘This book is a gripping masterpiece that will approach … In sum, Dooley’s book is a feast, a enthral each and every reader that has an interest LEITRIM triumph, and a treat’, Tim Wilson, Irish Literary The Irish Revolution, in our county, the people who live here and our LIMERICK ROSCOMMON1912–23 Supplement. ISBN 978-1-84682-616-0 (2017). shared history’, Leitrim Observer.

PATRICK Mc GARTY ISBN 978-1-84682-850-8 (2020). Waterford MARY ANN LYONS & DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN, SERIES EDITORS

The Irish Revolution: Leitrim Design Set 2 A Pat McCarthy [email protected] www.anu-design.ie 17/10/19 Louth ‘A concise overview of events in Waterford that Donal Hall will also serve as a launch pad for more detailed studies of particular aspects of the county’s ‘A hugely important local, political, social experience of Ireland’s revolutionary years’, and military history of Co. Louth from an Marie Coleman, Irish Literary Supplement. accomplished author’, Ireland’s Genealogical ISBN 978-1-84682-410-4 (2015). Gazette. ISBN 978-1-84682-660-3 (2019). Tyrone Fergal McCluskey

Derry ‘A well-researched and argued study of a Adrian Grant key county in the revolutionary period’, Peter Mulready, Irish Sword. ‘[Derry] was unique in its demographics and ISBN 978-1-84682-300-8 (2014). geography ... Grant presents a perspective that is ordinarily overlooked’, History Ireland. ISBN 978-1-84682-659-7 (2018). Sligo Michael Farry

‘Michael Farry’s study is admirably sourced, a balanced and sober assessment of revolutionary politics and violence in his native county’, Books Each Pbk c.192pp ills Ireland. ISBN 978-1-84682-302-2 (2012). €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES 27 20th-Century Studies Recently published

MARY MacDIARMADA

Art O’Brien and irish nationalism in london, 1900-25

Art O’Brien Design for catalogue A Art O’Brien

[email protected] www.anu-design.ie 05/12/19

Art O’Brien and Irish nationalism in London, 1900–25 Mary MacDiarmada Spring 2021 ‘Shedding light on the work of the “presiding 352pp ills genius” of the Irish movement in London Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-987-1 [this] publication of Art O’Brien and Irish nationalism in London, 1900–25 by Dr Mary €50 / £45 / $65 MacDiarmada is a long overdue biography Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-960-4 of one of the most fascinating characters of the Irish revolution ... The author concludes €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 that O’Brien’s role between 1916 and 1921 An Open Air publication is “grossly underestimated” and makes a compelling case for this claim ... no revolutionary figure left such a huge archive The Black & Tans, 1920–1921: a complete of material for future historians and the Art O’Brien collection in the National Library is alphabetical list, short history and genealogical guide one of the most comprehensive you will find Jim Herlihy from this period ... When he died, de Valera said of him: “There was never a man who was From 6 January 1920 recruiting to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was more whole-heartedly or more self-sacrificingly loyal to Ireland and to the course of the Irish extended outside of Ireland to candidates with military experience, in order to language and Irish independence”’, Ronan supplement the native Irish force, then depleted by massive resignations, IRA McGreevy, Irish Times (2020). attacks and campaigns of social exclusion. This new force was called the RIC (2020) 228pp ills Special Reserve. By July 1921 a total of 7,683 candidates recruited in Britain (381 Irish-born) had arrived in Ireland. From 3 September 1920 a second Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-854-6 and separate group of 2,189 ‘temporary constables’ (312 Irish-born) were €55 / £50 / $74.50 recruited and attached to the newly opened headquarters of the motorised division of the RIC at Gormanston Camp in County Meath. A third group, Electioneering and propaganda in known as the Veterans and Drivers Division, attached to Gormanston Camp Ireland, 1917–21: votes, violence and comprising of 1,069 (190 Irish-born) men, were also recruited. Due to and victory the huge volume of recruits being immediately required and arriving at short Elaine Callinan notice, there was a shortage of regular ‘rifle-green’ RIC uniforms available; This book provides an illuminating and unique accordingly, the new recruits were initially given ill-fitting khaki trousers and analysis of the political rivalry between all the green tunics or vice versa and collectively by March 1920 gained the moniker major parties during Ireland’s revolutionary ‘Black and Tans’. Even though the uniform situation was sorted by December years. Politicians, propagandists and their voluntary supporters instigated forceful 1920, the title ‘Black & Tans’ would remain long after into history. election campaigns to promote ideologies that aimed to alter or imbed their principles into the In this book Jim Herlihy lists alphabetically every individual member of minds of ordinary people. The goal was victory these three distinct groups who was liable to be called a ‘Black and Tan’. at the ballot box during the by-elections, The lists include the RIC registered number, surname, forename, birth year, general elections and local government native country and county, religion, the recruiting office where they enlisted, elections of this era. Callinan places her study whether they had served as a soldier or as a sailor, previous occupation within the wider contexts of the modernization of propaganda during the Great War and and whether they resigned (with the given reasons), were discharged or the expansion of consumerism to conduct dismissed, pensioned or disbanded, or killed or died in service. The book an examination of election activity – from also includes a chapter on tracing and identifying ‘Black and Tan’ ancestors candidate selection and fundraising to door-to- in the RIC Nominal Roll of 1 January 1921, along with several sets of door canvassing, and everything in between. appendices. Running alongside war and revolution were the political struggles, and they equalled any of the Jim Herlihy, a retired member of the Garda Síochána and a co-founder military upheavals that transformed politics in Ireland. of the Garda Síochána Historical Society, has worked on these sources for many years. His many publications include The Royal Irish Constabulary: (2020) 278pp colour ills a short history and genealogical guide (1997, 2016) and Royal Irish Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-870-6 Constabulary officers: a biographical dictionary and genealogical guide, 1816–1922 (2005). €45 / £40 / $65 28 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES / MEDIA STUDIES 20th-Century Studies/Media Studies Recently published

Newspapers and Journalism in Cork, 1910–23 PERIODICALS AND Press, Politics and Revolution JOURNALISM IN TWENTIETH- CENTURY IRELAND 2 A VARIETY OF VOICES

AlanJames McCarthy W. Houlihan

Mark O’Brien & Felix M. Larkin, Editors Newspapers and journalism in Cork, 1910–23: press, politics and revolution Alan McCarthy

This book ‘goes beyond the many instances of sabotage, censorship and enforced newspaper Autumn 2021 (previously announced) closures to detail other challenges that faced publishers, such as industrial unrest and 240pp wartime paper shortages. McCarthy delves Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-862-1 deep between the lines printed in more than a dozen titles in the rebel county before, €50 / £45 / $70 during and after the War of Independence to explain the political affiliations of the owners, but also those too of their reporters, printers Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century and even their newsboys. Although none lost Ireland 2: a variety of voices their lives directly as a result of their work in the War of Independence, several of Cork’s Mark O’Brien & Felix M. Larkin, editors newsmen – for it was an almost exclusively- male sector – were killed, abducted, arrested Periodicals have been at the core of journalistic activity since before the or otherwise targeted … With his evidence foundation of the state but have remained an area long neglected within of political messaging, military censorship media history. This volume, featuring essays by leading media historians, and enforced editorial insertions, McCarthy presents an insight into recent periodicals research in Ireland, much of which suggests a cautious approach to the use of online newspaper archives by those compiling has focused on the magazines produced by various interest groups, the family or local histories. Distinguishing news relationship between culture and commerce and how periodicals critiqued the from misinformation is clearly not a skill that national press. Alongside case studies of key periodicals such as Fortnight, first became necessary in the internet age’, In Dublin, Status and the Phoenix the volume also examines periodicals Niall Murray, Irish Examiner (2020). produced over the course of the twentieth century by religious bodies, the (2020) 312pp Irish-language lobby, the women’s-rights movement and the gay-rights campaign. Focusing on key periodicals, proprietors, editors, contributors and Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-848-5 controversies, it evaluates the contribution of periodical journalism to the €45 / £40 / $65 ideas and debates that helped shape twentieth-century Ireland. Irish-American diaspora Contents: Felix M. Larkin on periodicals and the press; Sonya Perkins nationalism: the Friends of on culture and commerce in periodicals; Caitriona Clear on women’s Irish Freedom, 1916–35 magazines of the 1960s; Barra O’Seaghdha on the Catholic Bulletin; Michael Doorley Ian d’Alton on the Church of Ireland Gazette; Sonja Tiernan on the Irish New paperback edition Housewife; Declan O’Keefe on religious periodicals; Regina Uí Chollatáin on Comhar; Mark O’Brien on GCN (Gay Community News); Tony Keating on ‘[T]ightly focused, thoroughly researched, well Honest; Michael Kennedy on the Leader; Andy Pollack on Fortnight; Martina organised, clearly written … [Doorley] provides an excellent account of the development Madden on In Dublin; Pat Brennan on Status; and Joe Breen on the Phoenix. of Irish-American nationalism in tandem with the outbreak of the First World War, Mark O’Brien & Felix M. Larkin are the editors of Periodicals and the 1916 insurrection in Ireland, America’s journalism in twentieth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2014). O’Brien is also the entry into the war in 1917, the Anglo-Irish author of : a history (Dublin, 2008), co-editor (with Kevin War, and Woodrow Wilson’s grand vision Rafter) of Independent Newspapers: a history (Dublin, 2012) and co-editor of a harmonious post-war order … Bringing Irish and American history together as (with Joe Breen) of The Sunday papers: a history of Ireland’s weekly press part of a single story in a global context, as (Dublin, 2018). Larkin is the author of Terror and discord: the Shemus Doorley does, offers an opportunity to write cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 (Dublin, 2009). transnational history at its best’, Kevin Kenny, Irish Historical Studies (2007).

(2021) 224pp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-982-6 €24.95 / £22.50 / $35 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES / SCIENCE 29 20th-Century Studies/Science Recently published

A History of the Irish Ingenious Ireland: a county-by- Pharmaceutical county exploration of Irish Industry mysteries and marvels

MAKING MEDICINES FOR Mary Mulvihill THE WORLD ‘Mary Mulvihill’s freewheeling narrative through every county in Ireland ... Peppered Summer 2021 with quirky snippets, esoteric and entertaining facts, her book reveals insights into the lives Pat McCarthy 256pp colour ills of trailblazing men and women, neglected Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-979-6 subjects and underrated landscapes ... it covers a great deal of ground, commemorating €35 / £30 / $45 achievements of pioneers in the disciplines of science, medicine, engineering, archaeology, A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry Design for Catalogue architecture, geography and natural history ... www.anu-design.ie 26/11/20 A history of the Irish pharmaceutical industry: making Slivers of little-known history come to light on medicines for the world every page ... Within its 500 pages, space has been found for detailed maps and illustrations, Pat McCarthy a directory of centres and organisations, a bibliography and index ... this book should not Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global be devoured at a single sitting but savoured pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now slowly, uncovering morsels of recondite the backbone of the Irish economy. How the industry evolved from small information to surprise your friends’, Paul Clements, Irish Times (2020). firms that supplied the Irish market only, a sector that was threatened by the introduction of free trade in the 1960s, to the present, when Ireland (2019) 496pp large format, ills has become a home to most of the world’s leading pharma firms, is the Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-821-8 theme of this book. It is an Irish success story that has helped to transform Ireland. Pat McCarthy recounts how inspired leadership, an attractive €19.95 / £17.95 / $27.95 investment package, and the occasional piece of luck enabled Ireland to opportunistically ‘grab the future’. It was not a journey without controversy and confrontation, most noticeably on environmental issues. How these disputes were resolved is a key part of this story which concludes with a look at the medium and long-term challenges to the sector.

Pat McCarthy, a native of Waterford city, holds a PhD and an MBA from UCD and worked for many years in the pharmaceutical-manufacturing sector. He is a research associate in the School of History and Geography, DCU, and author of Waterford: the Irish Revolution, 1912–23 (Dublin, 2015) and The Redmonds and Waterford: a political dynasty, 1891–1952 (Dublin, 2018). 30 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES 20th-Century Studies Recently published

The Ideal Diplomat? Women and Irish foreign affairs, 1946–90

Ann Marie O’Brien

The ideal diplomat? Women and Irish foreign affairs, 1946–90 Ann Marie O’Brien

This book is the first full study to examine the appointment and experiences of women in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs from 1946 Spring 2021 to 1990. Focusing on the appointment and careers of Irish female diplomats, it examines 352pp ills their experiences in a historically male-centred Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-959-8 career. In 1946 Sheila Murphy, a twenty-year veteran of the department, received her first €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 diplomatic appointment and this sparked the beginning of women entering the department and attaining diplomatic status. Their inclusion Irish men and women in the Second World War in the elite Irish diplomatic corps however was not without its challenges. Only a handful Richard Doherty entered the department in these early years and for these women the marriage bar was During the Second World War, Irish men and women served in every theatre in place within the civil service, equal pay for and every service. Irish soldiers fought in France and Norway in 1940, in equal work did not exist and they had to fight the Middle East and Burma, Italy and in the campaign to liberate Europe. against the internalized image of the diplomat Irish sailors hunted the Graf Spee and Bismarck and protected convoys from as a male agent. This book tells the story of these women’s careers, from the pioneering U-boats, while Irish airmen protected the UK in 1940 and took the war to women of the 1940s through to the trailblazers the skies over Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Irish women served of the 1990s. in roles critical to the success of the fighting services. ‘Highly recommended for students of Irish This book tells their stories using a wide array of sources including personal foreign affairs or international relations’, Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette. interviews, contemporary documents, citations for gallantry awards – among them the Victoria Cross – published accounts and memoirs. The (2020) 176pp publication of the first edition of this book in 1999 led the way to further Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-851-5 study by the author, and in this updated, expanded edition, new sources and careful examination show the numbers of Irish in the UK forces to be higher €45 / £40 / $65 than hitherto believed. Dublin City University, 1980–2020: ‘There is a tale or two to be told of the Irish in the Second World War – designed to be different indeed, perhaps far too many; which is why [this book] is so impressive’, Eoin Kinsella Kevin Myers, Irish Times. ‘DCU was “designed to be different”, as the ‘A fine addition to our knowledge of the war, as moving as any account book’s subtitle indicates. Kinsella has written usefully of aspects of an Irish institution that will always be when it lets unassuming survivors speak to us’, Ian S. Wood, reflect changes in Irish education and society History. since 1980. They include the successful integration of St Patrick’s College, Mater Dei ‘A marvellous read, beautifully written and covers all the Services as well as and the Church of Ireland College of Education civilians’, James Lucas, Blackthorn: Journal of the Royal Irish Regiment. into a university that started just 40 years ago as a small but ambitious project – located “out Richard Doherty, writer and broadcaster, has published numerous articles in the sticks on Dublin’s northside”’, Colum and books on Irish military history. He has also researched and presented Kenny, History Ireland (2020). several special programmes for the BBC and UTV. (2020) 332pp colour ills Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-808-9 €50 / £45 / $65 Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-809-6 €24.95 / £22.50 / $39.95 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES / THE MAKING OF DUBLIN CITY SERIES 31 20th-Century Studies / The Making of Dublin City Series Also in this series

THE MAKING OF DUBLIN CITY THE MAKING OF DUBLIN CITY

DUBLIN 1910–1940 Shaping the city and suburbs

RUTH Mc MANUS

Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus series editors

DUBLIN Dublin, 1910–1940: shaping the in the 1970s and 1980s city and suburbs Ruth McManus JOSEPH BRADY Winter 2021 Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin’s suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned 320pp ills suburbanization of the working classes Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-986-4 became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such as Marino, Drumcondra and €50 / £45 / $70 Crumlin being built. At the same time, private Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-980-2 speculative development was continuing at the edges of the city, where individual Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus series editors €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 builders, such as Alexander Strain, often had a major impact on the layout and style of the suburbs. The extent of the interaction Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s between State, local authority, public utility societies and private speculators suggests that Joseph Brady a development continuum existed rather than a strict division between public and private Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming development. the landscape of the west of the city, especially in , Clondalkin This was also a period when the modern town and Blanchardstown. It was a time of change with the dominance of planning movement and evolving ideas about the city centre increasingly challenged by suburban shopping centres citizenship in the new State impacted on the as Dubliners embraced the freedom offered by the motor car. Cars shaping of the city. Many of the formative demanded more and bigger roads but it was realized that Dublin had to decisions that came to shape the modern low-rise, low-density city were taken at this control rather than accommodate these demands. The suburban trend time. The story of Dublin’s development in the in housing, shopping and jobs made the problem of decline and decay in period from 1910 to 1940 covers a time of the city centre even more acute. There was much talk about what needed major political and social change in Ireland. to be done but little happened until the latter years of the 1980s. When The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and change came it was dramatic and both the social geography of the city photographs. centre and its appearance were transformed in less than five years. The ‘This is a scholarly book and there are copious urban environment was given greater attention, largely because the issues footnotes and research data but with Ruth could no longer be avoided. The Liffey stink was finally tamed after a McManus’s narrative skill the subject – the building of Dublin’s suburbs, whether private century or more of complaints and Dubliners had to say farewell to open speculative or Dublin Corporation driven coal fires. Some things never changed! The problem of how to manage – is an intriguing and human insight into the city remained as intractable as ever despite significant changes the development of a very familiar urban in local government structures and the public housing need remained landscape’, Bernice Harrison, Irish Times. acute. These and other topics are considered in this, the 8th volume in the (2002; 2nd ed. 2021) 512pp ills Making of Dublin City series. As usual, the discussion is enlivened by maps, photographs and illustrations. Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-983-3 €19.95 / £17.95 / $29.95 Joseph Brady is a geographer and formerly Head of the UCD School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy and Dean of Arts. He is also, with Ruth McManus, a series editor of The Making of Dublin City series. 32 MUSIC Music Harp studies II: world harp traditions HARP Helen Lawlor & Sandra Joyce, editors This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions STUDIES around the world. World Harp Traditions Helen Lawlor & Sandra Joyce Contents: Helen Lawlor (DkIT), Harp ensembles in contemporary performance II e d i t o r s practice; Sandra Joyce (UL), Opening access to music education and harping through convent schools in Ireland; Niall Keegan (UL), Gender, language and aesthetic in the worlds of Irish harping; Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (MU), The harp in Classical Irish poetry: an edition of ‘Cia an saoi lé seinntear an chruit?’; Helen Davies (ind.) and Lia Lonnert (Linnaeus U), The visit of the Swedish harp virtuoso Adolf Sjödén to Ireland in 1879; Mary Louise O’Donnell (ind.), Virtuoso pedal harpists in Ireland in the nineteenth century; Cormac De Barra (DkIT), Sustaining the harp in post-colonial Ireland; Catriona Cannon (ind.), The Viggianese harp in Italy; Tristan Le Govic (Rennes 2 U), A trajectory of the Breton harp in the twentieth century; Joshua Dickson (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), The harp and bagpipes repertoire in Scotland; Paulla Ebron (Stanford U), West African Kora in the world of harp; Rémy Jadinon (Royal Museum for Central Africa), Contemporary repertoires of the ngombi harp by Mitsogo artists in Gabon; Sylvie Le Bomin and Salomé Strauch (Musée de l’Homme), Central African harps; Lucie Rault (Muséum Winter 2021 national d’Histoire naturelle), Sources for harps in Asia; Haley Hodson (ind.), 256pp colour ills Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pedal harps: the Philharmonie de Paris harp Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-981-9 collection; Benjamin Fairfield (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Suwichan €55 / £50 / $70 Phattanaphraiwan (Bodhivijjalaya College), Dawpuewae: forming and performing the Karen collective with the tehnaku (harp); Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen (ind.), Hortense Panum – a Danish pioneer in search of the origin of the harp.

Helen Lawlor is a lecturer in music at DkIT. Sandra Joyce is director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL.

Elizabeth Cronin: the complete song collection Dáibhí Ó Crónín

Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’, as Séamus Ennis called her, is probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of our time. Her reputation was such that collectors came from far and near to hear and record her singing. This new printing of a work first published in 2000 offers the complete Bess Cronin collection (in Irish and English) with texts of all the songs, and a biographical essay. The author, a grandson of Bess Cronin, brings to this publication a unique range of qualifications: access to Bess Cronin’s own autograph song-lists; transcriptions of her songs made by his uncle, Seán Ua Cróinín; notes and comments by Bess Cronin recorded by the author’s father, Donncha Ó Cróinín; and photographic material not previously seen. This personal, family material is combined with unique access to the BBC, IFC, and private American recorded material to offer a comprehensive account of an extraordinary singer and her distinctive singing style.

Summer 2021 (previously announced) 336pp large format, ills and CD Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-869-0 €29.95 / £27.50 / $39.95 FOLKLORE / NUI PUBLICATIONS 33

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THEEDITORS Life, Lore Kelly Fitzgerald is assistant andg Son Life, Lore and Song professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Essays in Studies and Folklore, UCD. Irish tradition Essays in Irish tradition in honour Bairbre Ní Fhloinn is head of Irish in honour of Folklore, UCD. Ríonach of Ríonach uí Ógáin Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is associate uí Ógáin professor of Modern Irish, UCD. Anne O’Connor is a folklorist, ‘Binneas an ‘Binneas an tSiansa’ psychotherapist and editor of tSiansa’ Béaloideas. Aistí in Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin In Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin /‘Binneas an tSiansa’: aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, twenty-seven contributors offer a variety of scholarly and personal tributes to Ríonach uí Ógáin, professor emeritus of Irish Folklore and former director of the National Folklore Collection.

The book engages with themes that have characterized her substantial contri bution to scholarship both nationally and internationally, exploring topics such as the historical connections between tradition archives in Ireland, Scotland Fitzgerald and the Nordic countries, folklore and folklore collecting, Ní Fhloinn Irish folk tradition and ethnology, traditional music and Ní Úrdail song, and Irish manuscripts and poetry as rich sources for O’Connor oral tradition. EDITORS

Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn,

COVER IMAGE Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor An Blascaod Mór/the Great Blasket, EDITORS photograph taken by Ríonach uí Ógáin from Sliabh an Iolair, Dún Chaoin, Co. Kerry, . www.fourcourtspress.ie National University of Ireland publications Life, lore and song / ‘Binneas an tSiansa’: essays on aspects Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies of Irish tradition in honour of Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide Ríonach uí Ógáin range of research in the field of Irish language Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, in prose and verse ranging from Old Irish down editors to the modern language and including items In this book, twenty-seven contributors offer from oral narration have appeared in its pages. a variety of scholarly and personal tributes to It regularly includes important contributions on Comhairle Bhéaloideas Ríonach uí Ógáin, professor emeritus of Irish grammar, lexicography, palaeography, metrics Éireann: The Folklore of Folklore and former director of the National and the history of the Irish language, as well as Folklore Collection. Ireland Council publications on a wide variety of Irish literary topics. The book engages with themes that have Volume 40 Treasures of the National Folklore characterized her substantial contribution to Liam Mac Mathúna, editor scholarship both nationally and internationally, Collection exploring topics such as the historical Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Séamas Ó connections between traditional archives in (2019) 424pp Catháin, Ríonach uí Ógáin & Seosamh Ireland, Scotland and the Nordic countries, Watson, editors Pbk ISBN 978-0-901510-76-1 folklore and folklore collecting, Irish folk tradition and ethnology, traditional music and ‘What a pleasure to delve into a book studded €25 / £20 / $39.95 song, and Irish manuscripts and poetry as rich with exquisite gems of old photographs, For previous volumes of Éigse see our website. sources of Irish tradition. sketches and artwork! The accompanying essays are rich with bewitching anecdotes’, Contributors: Anna Bale (UCD); Angela Mary McWay Seaman, The Celtic Connection. Bourke (UCD); Nicholas Carolan (Irish Lorg na Leabhar: a festschrift for Traditional Music Archive); Síle de Cléir (UL); (2010) 250pp large format, colour ills Pádraig A. Breatnach Kelly Fitzgerald (UCD); Cathal Goan (UCD); Barbara Hillers (Indiana U, Bloomington); Hbk ISBN 978-0-956562-80-7 Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Gordon Ó Riain, editors Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (UCD); Margaret A. €50 / £45 / $70 Mackay (U Edinburgh); Liam Mac Mathúna This collection of essays honours the enormous (UCD); Maureen Murphy (Hofstra U); Éilís Ní contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach Dhuibhne-Almqvist (Folklore of Ireland Society/ Seáinín Tom Sheáin: from Árainn to to learning in a diverse range of fields including Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann); Bairbre Ní medieval Latin, early Modern Irish, palaeography, the silver screen Fhloinn (UCD); Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (UCD); literary history, eighteenth-century verse, and Tomás Ó hÍde William Nolan (UCD); Stiofán Ó Cadhla (UCC); modern Irish literature and language. The Séamás Ó Catháin (UCD); Pádraig Ó Héalaí This book, which shares forty-two pieces of folk contributors engage with written material relating (NUIG); Anne O’Connor (Editor, Béaloideas); narrative collected from Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin to early, medieval and modern Irish as well as Anne O’Dowd (NMI); Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (U in the 1930s, provides a more complete picture with oral traditions in Gaelic-speaking areas of Notre Dame); Éamonn Ó hÓgáin (ind.); Lillis of the storyteller and of the process behind the Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Ó Laoire (NUIG); Tom Sherlock (ind.); Seosamh creation of the first Irish-language film. Watson (UCD); Fionnuala Carson Williams (2019) 534pp (ind.); and Vincent Woods (writer/broadcaster). (2019) 282pp ills Hbk ISBN 978-0-901510-77-8 Pbk ISBN 978-0-9565628-8-3 (2019) 368pp colour ills €65 / £55 / $85 €19.95 / £17.50 / $29.95 Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-810-2 €55 / £50 / $74.95 Lia Fáil The Mount Callan Garland: songs Liam Mac Mathúna, editor from the repertoire of Tom Lenihan, Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, Lia Fáil was originally published by the National County Clare University of Ireland as a journal of Irish research. Four volumes, edited by Douglas Hyde, were Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with published between 1925 and 1932. This elegant music transcriptions by Marian Deasy facsimile edition reproduces all four books in a single volume. (2017) 188pp ills, 2 music CDs

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‘Dr Mullally’s lively translation captures the spirit of adventure which underlay the NORMANS THE NORMANS events described in the Geste des Engleis en Yrlande, and students of these events now have at their disposal a scholarly modern edition from which to work’, Peritia. 1169–1333 ‘[T]he edition itself is extremely scholarly and intelligent; the notes, both textual 1169–1333 and historical ... are copious; and the introduction, forty pages long, is exhaustive ... all in all, Mullally has done an excellent job’, Medium Aevum. GODDARD HENRY The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland (La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande) is a primary source for the history of Ireland in the twelfth century. Formerly edited as The Song ORPEN of Dermot and the Earl, it is the only vernacular text to chronicle how Diarmait Goddard Henry Orpen Mac Murchada brought Richard de Clare (Strongbow) to Ireland from and how Henry II of England followed and established his régime. The text is incomplete, but at nearly 3,500 lines, it is by far the most substantial with an Introduction by Seán Duffy item written in French in Ireland in the Middle Ages and is a significant example of the Anglo-Norman dialect of medieval French. A few words of Irish are preserved in it and it offers clues to the pronunciation of Irish at the end of the twelfth centu ry. The text is also a valuable source for the history of Irish place names and personal names and includes many interesting phonetic variations. EVELYN MULLALLY MULLALLY EVELYN This is a new critical edition of the text. It includes a facing translation, a history IRELAND UNDER THE NORMANS and description of the manuscript, a study of the anonymous author, an analysis of the language, textual and historical notes, maps, a chronology, a genealogical table, Almost a century after the publication of his magnum opus Goddard Henry a select glossary and an index of proper names. Orpen’s Ireland under the Normans remains a work of quite the most stupendous scholarship. Every monograph which has since appeared on this era of Irish his- Evelyn Mullally is a former lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. tory has paraphrased him, adjusted some of the details of his account, added some information where a new source has been Tunearthed,he or Dsoughteeds to tell the The cover design by SPACE incorporates a detail from Daniel Maclise, The Marriage of the Princess Aoife sameEDITOR story in a different tone. His work cannot be superseded because it is the with Strongbow, NGI 205, courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland. source and origin of the professional historiography of Anglo-Norman Ireland. The Four Courts Pressof edition the is completely N ormansreset, and published inin one Ireland volume, with an introduction by Seán Duffy, of the Department of Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin. Cover design: SPACE La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande The cover design is based on Daniel Maclise, The Marriage of the Princess Aoife with Strongbow, NGI , courtesy of www.fourcourtspress.ie the National GalleryEVELYN of Ireland. MULLALLY EDITOR

The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland/ Ireland under the Normans, 1169–1333 Carrick, County Wexford: Ireland’s La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande Goddard Henry Orpen first Anglo-Norman stronghold Evelyn Mullally, editor Denis Shine, Michael Potterton, Stephen ‘Do not on any account bring this book on a Mandal & Catherine McLoughlin, editors ‘[T]he edition itself is extremely scholarly and train journey, because you’ll miss your station. intelligent; the notes, both textual and historical Everyone who has any interest whatsoever in ‘This book certainly has a lot to offer and, just as the ... are copious; and the introduction, forty pages Irish history should read this and keep it in the Anglo-Normans used Wexford as a starting point for long, is exhaustive ... all in all, Mullally has done house. A wonderful book’, Lucille Redmond, Books their colonisation, one could do worse than use this an excellent job’, Medium Aevum. Ireland. book as a starting point for learning more about its early centuries’, Archaeology Ireland. (2019) 180pp | Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-817-1 (2019) 682pp | Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-818-8 €19.95 / £17.95 / $29.95 €35 / £30 / $45 (2019) 264pp large format, full colour | Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-796-9 | €24.95 / £22.50 / $35

ARROGANT TRESPASS Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169–1400 TRESPASS ARROGANT Arrogant Trespass is the first sustained treatment of the Anglo-Normans in Wexford since Orpen’s century-old work. Profusely illustrated, meticulously researched and tightly written, this model study has stood the test of time and is now a classic of Wexford history.

Billy Colfer (1939–2013) was a native of Slade, 1169 Anglo-Norman Wexford on the Hook Peninsula, Co. Wexford. A graduate of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, he taught at CBS Wexford until his retirement in 1997. This book, first – 1400 published in 2002 by Duffry Press, is based on his doctoral thesis, which he submitted to Trinity College Dublin in 2000. His other publications include The Hook Peninsula (2004), Wexford: a town and its landscape (2008) and Wexford castles: landscape, context and settlement (2013). BILLY COLFER

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Arrogant Trespass: Anglo-Norman Households of God: the regular Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740 Wexford, 1169–1400 Canons and Canonesses of Rolf Loeber Billy Colfer St Augustine and of Prémontré in medieval Ireland ‘This book is a fine tribute to a scholar who This ‘remains one of the standard works on the was truly a path-breaker and an inspiration, a Martin Browne OSB & Colmán area and the period’, History Ireland. person whose legacy deserves to be valued and Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors remembered’, History Ireland. ‘This is a “must read” for anyone interested in the ‘[A] welcome addition to any bookshelf on Irish period’, Archaeology Ireland. (2019) 332pp large format, ills religious history’, The Furrow. Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-820-1 | €55 / £50 / $74.95 (2019) 316pp ills | Pbk ISBN 978-1-84682-822-5 (2019) 352pp colour ills €19.95 / £17.95 / $27.95 Hbk ISBN 978-1-84682-788-4 | €50 / £45 / $70 SELECT BACKLIST 35 Select Backlist

Religion, landscape and settlement Social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, The Egan Irish harps: tradition, in Ireland: from Patrick to present 1450–1540 patrons and players Kevin Whelan Peadar Slattery Nancy Hurrell

‘The scholarship on display in this book is ‘[T]his is an impressive book by any standards. This ‘study of Egan’s ornate and iconic revivalist impressive by any measure. Whelan’s range is Dr Slattery has transformed our understanding of harp is both substantial and fascinating ... With at times jaw-dropping ... This is a book to be late medieval Dublin and its inhabitants in a most clarity, perception and vigour, Hurrell gets to the read and re-read and admired’, Tadhg O’Keeffe, readable manner’, Henry A. Jefferies, History heart of her subject in easily flowing prose’, Alex Landscapes. Ireland. Rider, Harp: United Kingdom Association Magazine.

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