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A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson' (Pre-published version)

A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson.'David ... more A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson.'David Dickson's monumental work analyzes society in the southern Irish counties of Cork, Kerry, and west Waterford in the two centuries before the Great Famine, addressing the evolution of a key region and exploring plantation, cultural assimilation, and socioeconomic change. It not only reconstructs contemporary society but illuminates developments in the region and beyond in the following century when the twin forces of reforming state and emergent nationalism undermined the "old colony."Ye

A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan' (Pre-published version)

A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan.&#... more A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan.'This very readable work is the first volume of a proposed two-volume study of the life and political career of Daniel O'Connell, concentrating on his career up to the granting of Catholic emancipation in 1829. One might ask whether there was any need for such a work given the range of similar studies, from that by O'Faolain in 1938 through those of O'Ferrall (1985) and MacDonagh (1988), as well as edited volumes by MacCartney (1980), and Nowlan and O'Connell (1991). Many of the themes dealt with in Geoghegan's first volume have already been given considerable attention in these earlier works. For example, O'Connell's ebullient personality and his straddling of the Gaelic and Anglicised worlds form the core of O'Faolain's aptly entitled King of the Beggars', O'Ferrall's Daniel O'Connell and the birth of Irish democracy has teased out the mechanics and dynamics of the emancipation campaign - and especially the role of the Waterford clergy - in laying the foundation of O'Connell's political machine; and MacDonagh's Hereditary bondsman: Daniel O'Connell 1775-1829 has explored the impact of family and locality on O'Connell's political evolution, as well as the tensions in his public personality between statesman and popular agitator. The essay collections have further extended the examination of O'Connell's career to cover such issues as his position as a folk hero, his social and economic beliefs, his impact, and his reputation in the wider European context.Ye

Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick

The political movement for Irish home rule and agrarian reform led by Charles Stewart Parnell in ... more The political movement for Irish home rule and agrarian reform led by Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880s collapsed in disarray with the O’Shea divorce case of 1891. This case revealed many of the internal fissures within Parnell’s movement, but it did not cause them. During its decade-long existence, the movement had been held together by a potent mix of centralisation and flexibility, Parnell maintaining tight control through a pledge-bound party and a centralised leadership, yet simultaneously encouraging the multiple expectations of the many interest groups within the rank and file.1 Thus, the meaning of Parnellism varied from one constituent group to the next. To farmers it meant anything from mere rent reduction to a complete revolution in land ownership. To party activists and the non-farming public its interpretation ranged from limited political independence, through the ‘restoration’ of the Irish parliament of 1782, to the establishment of a separate republic. To Catholic churchmen, suspicious though many were of both Parnell’s socio-denominational background and his authoritarian leadership style, Parnellism nonetheless meant a clerical share in political power.2

A review of 'The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney

O'Connor, Fergus (Feargus)

Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009

Sullivan, Timothy Daniel

Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009

Irish women at work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane. Pp xix, 220. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2012. €60 hardback. €24.95 paperback

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2013

Popular Memory and Identity:Street Ballads in North Munster in the Nineteenth Century

Ye

A chapter attempting a discussion of oral history and tradition as a source for the study of the ... more A chapter attempting a discussion of oral history and tradition as a source for the study of the Irish famine must surely start with a story. This story was told to me by my mother about her own maternal grandmother, Mary Skehan, the wife of a comfortable farmer in the upland region of north Waterford. In a tradition passed down to her daughter and her granddaughters, was a woman of great generosity. During the famine, so my mother told me, Mary Skehan was never known to turn a poor person away from her door and yet, despite her constant giving, her meal-bin was never empty. 1 She died when my mother was a child-almost a century ago-yet the story lives on, transmitted by me to my children and to anyone else who cares to listen. So here we have an authentic piece of oral history about the great famine. Or do we? Is this story oral history? And is it about the famine? Oral history and oral tradition This piece of family lore, its theme of generosity rewarded familiar in all folklores, illustrates many of the complexities of the oral as a source for historical research. In the first place, it raises questions regarding the distinction between oral history-the first-hand evidence of individuals-and oral tradition-tales passed on from one generation to the next 2 But oral tradition may begin as oral history, mutating gradually from first hand narration to stories that open with 'people used to say that...' Mary Skehan's story probably originated in the late 1800s in the personal testimony of a neighbour, cousin or passing 'knight of the road, then metamorphosed into a semi-miraculous tale in family folklore, transmitted onward from the Skehans' upland locality to the home of Mary's daughter and grandchildren, eight miles to the south, to spread subsequently through space and time to admiring, mildly amused or even bored audiences. The story has a second significance in the context of the present volume. It suggests how the oral does not remain oral forever: through its present committal to print, Mary Skehan's 1 Mary Murphy, née Hickey, regarding her grandmother, Mary Skehan of Kilbrack, Rathgormac, County Waterford. This story was told on many occasions between the mid 1950s and 2000. 2 For a comprehensive and sympathetic discussion of this folk theme, see Cormac Ó Gráda, Black '47

Memory, story and balladry: 1798 and its place in popular memory in pre-Famine Ireland

Four Courts Press eBooks, 2001

How were political ideas and popular memories transmitted in early nineteenth century Ireland? Mo... more How were political ideas and popular memories transmitted in early nineteenth century Ireland? More specifically from the vantage point of this chapter, how widely was the rebellion of 1798 remembered in the decades before the Famine? The changing treatment of the rebellion by historians and political apologists has already been considered by Whelan and Cullen while Dunne has examined both contemporary 'subaltern' voices as well as the politics of commemoration in both 1898 and the recent bicentenary. However, there has been little serious attempt to explore nineteenth century memories 'from below'that is, from the cos iithui,,tjr, those sections of the population whose opinions were rendered inaccessible to both contemporaries and historians by reason of social status, language, or a combination of the two.'There is, of course, no clear-cut divide between elite and popular memories. We know that those writing 'from above', whether hostile or sympathetic towards the rebellion, took much of their evidence 'from below' either from loyalist or rebel survivors of '98 or from those who experienced the ensuing pacification.' Equally though this still remains a matter of conjecture memoirs and commentaries on the rebellion must have percolated downwards to determine what was 'remembered' about the event. On the other hand, there were vital differences between the memories from above and from below, and it is on these differences that the present chapter concentrates. The opinions 'from above' must be considered first. The process of sentimentalising rebellion was evident even before the hoped-for event had begun, the United Irishmens Paddyc Resource, published in 1795, stressing the onset of a 'bright reforming age', the impending triumph of 'Sweet Liberty' and the courage of 'Erin's sons',3 However, it was in the immediate aftermath of the rebellion that the

‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2010

This chapter explores the construction of class identity and respectability among Irish middle-cl... more This chapter explores the construction of class identity and respectability among Irish middle-class women, particularly those of the lower middle class, in the 120 years after the great famine of 1845–50. Such an exploration is fraught with difficulty, since the related concepts of class and respectability are notoriously difficult to define. Irish society was certainly status-conscious — class-based terminology being used increasingly from the 1870s onwards1 — yet neither urbanisation nor industry was sufficiently developed to allow clear-cut economic stratification. This makes it very difficult to pinpoint the Irish middle-class boundaries, particularly at its lower reaches. Where did the working class end and the middle class begin? Was class determined by the nature of employment (paid or otherwise)? Did the criteria for class differ between country and town? Did the same class indicators apply to women as to men? And was the quest for respectability a concept that divided one class from another or provided a bridge between them?

‘Of One Mind’?: O’Connellite Crowds in the 1830s and 1840s

Daniel O’Connell’s campaigns for reform and repeal during the 1830s and 1840s were characterized ... more Daniel O’Connell’s campaigns for reform and repeal during the 1830s and 1840s were characterized by the assembling of large crowds, particularly during the so-called ‘Repeal Year’ of 1843. Such crowd occasions have been given some well-deserved and overdue attention by historians in recent years, the latest example being Gary Owens’s groundbreaking work aptly entitled ‘Nationalism without words’.1 The present study examines the same general area but from a somewhat different vantage point, concentrating particularly on the ways in which the crowds at those meetings were formed and controlled. A number of key questions are posed. Were O’Connellite meetings manifestations of spontaneous political excitement or the result of careful manipulation? How was social order and decorum preserved at such huge gatherings? What windows are opened by these meetings into popular politicization in pre-famine Ireland?

Local History

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009

Irish Historical Studies, May 1, 2020

Irish Economic and Social History, Dec 1, 2019

Only a few mentioned by Manley attested retrospectively to their enlightenment through access to ... more Only a few mentioned by Manley attested retrospectively to their enlightenment through access to a library. On the basis of financing and constitutions, Manley distinguishes sharply between groups run by and catering to the 'working class' and those patronised by the 'middle class'. How discrete these categories were in Ireland before 1825 may be questioned. Such a rigid division makes it hard to see where exactly apprentices, skilled artisans, 'mechanics' and aspirants to higher status fit. Undoubtedly there were book clubs and libraries that were variants of the rich associational life of the capital and larger towns or sociable expedients to relieve the tedium of rural retirement. Mysteries envelop how the books were chosen. Enterprising booksellers and publishers pushed their wares, sometimes with tempting discounts; newspaper advertisements and increasing numbers of reviews alerted the interested, as did private correspondence and conversations. It is clear that if refreshment was sometimes the adjunct to reading, it thrived as a sociable pastime. Discussion of the merits of particular titles, reading aloud and courses of lectures and experiments frequently occurred in the orbit of the libraries. But these activities are only occasionally reported. In general, Manley separates those libraries which resulted from bequests and donations from those in which the subscribers made the selection of stock. It could be that forceful members of the group directed the choices. Again, there may have been discussions and dissensions of which there is now no trace. Libraries served as centres of conviviality, although sometimes instead of contention, even of physical brawling. Several consciously aspired to avoid religious and political controversy but did not always succeed therein. By the nineteenth century, particular foundations were denounced as instruments of proselytisation. Moreover, there persisted a fear among the educated that encouraging the ignorant to acquire learning through print would make them insubordinate. Manley does full justice to the complexity of reactions and indeed to the impressive variety within the collections. His findings have many implications for the understanding of late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Ireland, and, it is to be hoped, will be further explored.

Ireland: reading and cultural nationalism, 1790–1930: bringing the nation to book. By Andrew Murphy. Pp xii, 252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. £75

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2018

Review: Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Irish Economic and Social History, Jun 1, 1995

The welfare implications of the shift out of paid employment, occuring during a period of sustain... more The welfare implications of the shift out of paid employment, occuring during a period of sustained expansion in the Irish economy, are also tackled by Bourke. The conclusion reached is unlikely to please the sisterhood (there are few consolations for the brotherhood either), particularly socialist feminists: on balance, women gained from the stay-at-home strategy, though there was a diminution in their economic independence. No doubt Husbandry to Housewifery will simulate a range of responses. This is a measure of its success. It is an intellectually-courageous and pioneering work that opens up a range of intriguing issues relating to the historical experience of women in Irish society.

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2009

A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson' (Pre-published version)

A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson.'David ... more A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson.'David Dickson's monumental work analyzes society in the southern Irish counties of Cork, Kerry, and west Waterford in the two centuries before the Great Famine, addressing the evolution of a key region and exploring plantation, cultural assimilation, and socioeconomic change. It not only reconstructs contemporary society but illuminates developments in the region and beyond in the following century when the twin forces of reforming state and emergent nationalism undermined the "old colony."Ye

A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan' (Pre-published version)

A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan.&#... more A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan.'This very readable work is the first volume of a proposed two-volume study of the life and political career of Daniel O'Connell, concentrating on his career up to the granting of Catholic emancipation in 1829. One might ask whether there was any need for such a work given the range of similar studies, from that by O'Faolain in 1938 through those of O'Ferrall (1985) and MacDonagh (1988), as well as edited volumes by MacCartney (1980), and Nowlan and O'Connell (1991). Many of the themes dealt with in Geoghegan's first volume have already been given considerable attention in these earlier works. For example, O'Connell's ebullient personality and his straddling of the Gaelic and Anglicised worlds form the core of O'Faolain's aptly entitled King of the Beggars', O'Ferrall's Daniel O'Connell and the birth of Irish democracy has teased out the mechanics and dynamics of the emancipation campaign - and especially the role of the Waterford clergy - in laying the foundation of O'Connell's political machine; and MacDonagh's Hereditary bondsman: Daniel O'Connell 1775-1829 has explored the impact of family and locality on O'Connell's political evolution, as well as the tensions in his public personality between statesman and popular agitator. The essay collections have further extended the examination of O'Connell's career to cover such issues as his position as a folk hero, his social and economic beliefs, his impact, and his reputation in the wider European context.Ye

Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick

The political movement for Irish home rule and agrarian reform led by Charles Stewart Parnell in ... more The political movement for Irish home rule and agrarian reform led by Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880s collapsed in disarray with the O’Shea divorce case of 1891. This case revealed many of the internal fissures within Parnell’s movement, but it did not cause them. During its decade-long existence, the movement had been held together by a potent mix of centralisation and flexibility, Parnell maintaining tight control through a pledge-bound party and a centralised leadership, yet simultaneously encouraging the multiple expectations of the many interest groups within the rank and file.1 Thus, the meaning of Parnellism varied from one constituent group to the next. To farmers it meant anything from mere rent reduction to a complete revolution in land ownership. To party activists and the non-farming public its interpretation ranged from limited political independence, through the ‘restoration’ of the Irish parliament of 1782, to the establishment of a separate republic. To Catholic churchmen, suspicious though many were of both Parnell’s socio-denominational background and his authoritarian leadership style, Parnellism nonetheless meant a clerical share in political power.2

A review of 'The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney

O'Connor, Fergus (Feargus)

Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009

Sullivan, Timothy Daniel

Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009

Irish women at work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane. Pp xix, 220. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2012. €60 hardback. €24.95 paperback

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2013

Popular Memory and Identity:Street Ballads in North Munster in the Nineteenth Century

Ye

A chapter attempting a discussion of oral history and tradition as a source for the study of the ... more A chapter attempting a discussion of oral history and tradition as a source for the study of the Irish famine must surely start with a story. This story was told to me by my mother about her own maternal grandmother, Mary Skehan, the wife of a comfortable farmer in the upland region of north Waterford. In a tradition passed down to her daughter and her granddaughters, was a woman of great generosity. During the famine, so my mother told me, Mary Skehan was never known to turn a poor person away from her door and yet, despite her constant giving, her meal-bin was never empty. 1 She died when my mother was a child-almost a century ago-yet the story lives on, transmitted by me to my children and to anyone else who cares to listen. So here we have an authentic piece of oral history about the great famine. Or do we? Is this story oral history? And is it about the famine? Oral history and oral tradition This piece of family lore, its theme of generosity rewarded familiar in all folklores, illustrates many of the complexities of the oral as a source for historical research. In the first place, it raises questions regarding the distinction between oral history-the first-hand evidence of individuals-and oral tradition-tales passed on from one generation to the next 2 But oral tradition may begin as oral history, mutating gradually from first hand narration to stories that open with 'people used to say that...' Mary Skehan's story probably originated in the late 1800s in the personal testimony of a neighbour, cousin or passing 'knight of the road, then metamorphosed into a semi-miraculous tale in family folklore, transmitted onward from the Skehans' upland locality to the home of Mary's daughter and grandchildren, eight miles to the south, to spread subsequently through space and time to admiring, mildly amused or even bored audiences. The story has a second significance in the context of the present volume. It suggests how the oral does not remain oral forever: through its present committal to print, Mary Skehan's 1 Mary Murphy, née Hickey, regarding her grandmother, Mary Skehan of Kilbrack, Rathgormac, County Waterford. This story was told on many occasions between the mid 1950s and 2000. 2 For a comprehensive and sympathetic discussion of this folk theme, see Cormac Ó Gráda, Black '47

Memory, story and balladry: 1798 and its place in popular memory in pre-Famine Ireland

Four Courts Press eBooks, 2001

How were political ideas and popular memories transmitted in early nineteenth century Ireland? Mo... more How were political ideas and popular memories transmitted in early nineteenth century Ireland? More specifically from the vantage point of this chapter, how widely was the rebellion of 1798 remembered in the decades before the Famine? The changing treatment of the rebellion by historians and political apologists has already been considered by Whelan and Cullen while Dunne has examined both contemporary 'subaltern' voices as well as the politics of commemoration in both 1898 and the recent bicentenary. However, there has been little serious attempt to explore nineteenth century memories 'from below'that is, from the cos iithui,,tjr, those sections of the population whose opinions were rendered inaccessible to both contemporaries and historians by reason of social status, language, or a combination of the two.'There is, of course, no clear-cut divide between elite and popular memories. We know that those writing 'from above', whether hostile or sympathetic towards the rebellion, took much of their evidence 'from below' either from loyalist or rebel survivors of '98 or from those who experienced the ensuing pacification.' Equally though this still remains a matter of conjecture memoirs and commentaries on the rebellion must have percolated downwards to determine what was 'remembered' about the event. On the other hand, there were vital differences between the memories from above and from below, and it is on these differences that the present chapter concentrates. The opinions 'from above' must be considered first. The process of sentimentalising rebellion was evident even before the hoped-for event had begun, the United Irishmens Paddyc Resource, published in 1795, stressing the onset of a 'bright reforming age', the impending triumph of 'Sweet Liberty' and the courage of 'Erin's sons',3 However, it was in the immediate aftermath of the rebellion that the

‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2010

This chapter explores the construction of class identity and respectability among Irish middle-cl... more This chapter explores the construction of class identity and respectability among Irish middle-class women, particularly those of the lower middle class, in the 120 years after the great famine of 1845–50. Such an exploration is fraught with difficulty, since the related concepts of class and respectability are notoriously difficult to define. Irish society was certainly status-conscious — class-based terminology being used increasingly from the 1870s onwards1 — yet neither urbanisation nor industry was sufficiently developed to allow clear-cut economic stratification. This makes it very difficult to pinpoint the Irish middle-class boundaries, particularly at its lower reaches. Where did the working class end and the middle class begin? Was class determined by the nature of employment (paid or otherwise)? Did the criteria for class differ between country and town? Did the same class indicators apply to women as to men? And was the quest for respectability a concept that divided one class from another or provided a bridge between them?

‘Of One Mind’?: O’Connellite Crowds in the 1830s and 1840s

Daniel O’Connell’s campaigns for reform and repeal during the 1830s and 1840s were characterized ... more Daniel O’Connell’s campaigns for reform and repeal during the 1830s and 1840s were characterized by the assembling of large crowds, particularly during the so-called ‘Repeal Year’ of 1843. Such crowd occasions have been given some well-deserved and overdue attention by historians in recent years, the latest example being Gary Owens’s groundbreaking work aptly entitled ‘Nationalism without words’.1 The present study examines the same general area but from a somewhat different vantage point, concentrating particularly on the ways in which the crowds at those meetings were formed and controlled. A number of key questions are posed. Were O’Connellite meetings manifestations of spontaneous political excitement or the result of careful manipulation? How was social order and decorum preserved at such huge gatherings? What windows are opened by these meetings into popular politicization in pre-famine Ireland?

Local History

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009

Irish Historical Studies, May 1, 2020

Irish Economic and Social History, Dec 1, 2019

Only a few mentioned by Manley attested retrospectively to their enlightenment through access to ... more Only a few mentioned by Manley attested retrospectively to their enlightenment through access to a library. On the basis of financing and constitutions, Manley distinguishes sharply between groups run by and catering to the 'working class' and those patronised by the 'middle class'. How discrete these categories were in Ireland before 1825 may be questioned. Such a rigid division makes it hard to see where exactly apprentices, skilled artisans, 'mechanics' and aspirants to higher status fit. Undoubtedly there were book clubs and libraries that were variants of the rich associational life of the capital and larger towns or sociable expedients to relieve the tedium of rural retirement. Mysteries envelop how the books were chosen. Enterprising booksellers and publishers pushed their wares, sometimes with tempting discounts; newspaper advertisements and increasing numbers of reviews alerted the interested, as did private correspondence and conversations. It is clear that if refreshment was sometimes the adjunct to reading, it thrived as a sociable pastime. Discussion of the merits of particular titles, reading aloud and courses of lectures and experiments frequently occurred in the orbit of the libraries. But these activities are only occasionally reported. In general, Manley separates those libraries which resulted from bequests and donations from those in which the subscribers made the selection of stock. It could be that forceful members of the group directed the choices. Again, there may have been discussions and dissensions of which there is now no trace. Libraries served as centres of conviviality, although sometimes instead of contention, even of physical brawling. Several consciously aspired to avoid religious and political controversy but did not always succeed therein. By the nineteenth century, particular foundations were denounced as instruments of proselytisation. Moreover, there persisted a fear among the educated that encouraging the ignorant to acquire learning through print would make them insubordinate. Manley does full justice to the complexity of reactions and indeed to the impressive variety within the collections. His findings have many implications for the understanding of late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Ireland, and, it is to be hoped, will be further explored.

Ireland: reading and cultural nationalism, 1790–1930: bringing the nation to book. By Andrew Murphy. Pp xii, 252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. £75

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2018

Review: Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Irish Economic and Social History, Jun 1, 1995

The welfare implications of the shift out of paid employment, occuring during a period of sustain... more The welfare implications of the shift out of paid employment, occuring during a period of sustained expansion in the Irish economy, are also tackled by Bourke. The conclusion reached is unlikely to please the sisterhood (there are few consolations for the brotherhood either), particularly socialist feminists: on balance, women gained from the stay-at-home strategy, though there was a diminution in their economic independence. No doubt Husbandry to Housewifery will simulate a range of responses. This is a measure of its success. It is an intellectually-courageous and pioneering work that opens up a range of intriguing issues relating to the historical experience of women in Irish society.

Irish Historical Studies, Nov 1, 2009

Labour in Dublin and Belfast

The Irish Review (1986-), 1989

Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society,, 2001

David Dickson. Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630–1830. :Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630–1830. (History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora.)

American Historical Review, 2007

King Dan: the rise of Daniel O’Connell, 1775–1829. By Patrick M. Geoghegan. Pp xii, 337, illus. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 2008. €24.99

Irish Historical Studies, 2009

Dublin slums, 1800–1925: a study in urban geography. By Jacinta Prunty. pp xvii, 366, maps, illus. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1997; reprint, 1999. IR£39.50 hardback; IR£22.50 paperback

Irish Historical Studies, 1999

Irish women at work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane. Pp xix, 220. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2012. €60 hardback. €24.95 paperback

Irish Historical Studies, 2013

Irish Historical Studies, 2014

This book, making accessible in printed form the accounts of the Cork Franciscan Friary, should b... more This book, making accessible in printed form the accounts of the Cork Franciscan Friary, should be read in conjunction with the database available on the Irish Manuscripts Commission website. Both book and database are the result of painstaking and meticulous transcription and analysis by Clare Murphy and Liam Kennedy of almost 130 years of accounts (no records are extant for the years 1785 to 1803). Although the level of information available varies over the period, with the greatest detail appearing up to the mid-nineteenth century, the work is an invaluable guide to the day-today expenditure as well as to some of

Arrangements for the integration of Irish immigrants in England and Wales. By Anthony E. C. W. Spencer. edited by Mary E. Daly. Pp Xviii, 137. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. 2012. €35

Irish Historical Studies, 2014

Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Luddy, Maria, Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland (Cambridge: University Press. Pp. xiv + 251. 19 tabs. £40 hbk. / £18 pbk.)

Irish Economic and Social History

Ireland: reading and cultural nationalism, 1790–1930: bringing the nation to book. By Andrew Murphy. Pp xii, 252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. £75

Irish Historical Studies

Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland

Irish Economic and Social History

John Anderson, entrepreneur. By Niall Brunicardi. Pp xii, 179. Fermoy: Éigse Books. 1987. IR£6.99

Irish Historical Studies, 1989