Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century
Inventories of fourteen great Irish country houses, three Dublin town houses and one London town house yield remarkable insights into the lifestyle of leading families across Ireland and the households that supported them. They record in detail the goods and chattels inherited, accumulated, or acquired for enjoyment or everyday use.
Tessa Murdoch; Toby Barnard; John Adamson; John Adamson; Rebecca Campion; Jessica Cunningham; Alec Cobbe; Edmund Joyce; Leslie Fitzpatrick
Published: February /
2022
John Adamson
9781898565178
424 Pages
£60
Hardback
United Kingdom
Social & cultural history
Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, C.1830-1922
Set within colonial Melbourne and Chicago, this book explores the shifting influences of religious demography, educational provision and club culture to shed new light on what makes a diasporic ethnic community connect and survive over multiple generations.
Sophie Cooper
Published: February /
2022
Edinburgh University Press
9781474487092
272 Pages
£85
Hardback
United Kingdom
Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850
Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.
S. Karly Kehoe
Published: February /
2022
University of Toronto Press
9781487541088
302 Pages
£21.99
Paperback / softback
Canada
British & Irish history
Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850
Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.
S. Karly Kehoe
Published: February /
2022
University of Toronto Press
9781487541071
302 Pages
£49.99
Hardback
Canada
British & Irish history
The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics and Culture
The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics & Culture is a rare bird. It deals with topics of Irish political and cultural history which have only received sparse and spasmodic attention.
Kevin Haddick-Flynn
Published: February /
2022
Matador
9781803130453
536 Pages
£18
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Social & cultural history
The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics and Culture
The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics & Culture is a rare bird. It deals with topics of Irish political and cultural history which have only received sparse and spasmodic attention.
Kevin Haddick-Flynn
Published: February /
2022
Matador
9781803130361
536 Pages
£25
Hardback
United Kingdom
Social & cultural history
‘An Alien Ideology’: Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left
'An Alien Ideology' studies perceptions of Soviet influence in Ireland. It examines British fears of Dublin being used as a Russian espionage hub during the Northern Ireland Troubles and looks at the parliamentary role of the Workers' Party in advancing Soviet foreign policy objectives during the Thatcher/Reagan era.
John Mulqueen
Published: February /
2022
Liverpool University Press
9781800854734
296 Pages
£27.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history
The Voice of the Provinces: The Regional Press in Revolutionary Ireland, 1914-1921
Ireland's regional and provincial newspapers have played a largely unrecognised role in Irish history, this book charts their experiences in the dramatic and sometimes violent years leading up to independence. They were not immune from the conflict - they risked censorship, suppression, prolonged closure, and sometimes violent attack. This book tells their story for the first time.
Christopher Doughan
Published: February /
2022
Liverpool University Press
9781800854710
320 Pages
£27.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history
Using Concepts in Medieval History: Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500
This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history.
Jackson W. Armstrong; Peter Crooks; Andrea Ruddick
Published: February /
2022
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
9783030772796
197 Pages
£27.99
Paperback / softback
Switzerland
Historiography
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39: A Difficult Homecoming
This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .
Michael Robinson
Published: February /
2022
Manchester University Press
9781526162496
272 Pages
€24
£20
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
History of medicine