Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 20
Review of 'Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf' by Seán Duffy (Pre-published version)
(ASIMS [American Society for Irish Medieval Studies], 2014)
A review of 'Arrangements for the Integration of Irish Immigrants in England and Wales. By Anthony E.C.W. Spencer, edited by Mary E. Daly' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
This report, completed in 1960 but kept from the public domain until the publication of the present volume by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, was the product of the conjunction of two forces – Catholic church concern for ...
A review of 'Women of the House: Women's Household Work in Ireland 1922-1961. Discourses, Experiences and Memories by Caitriona Clear'
(Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, 2001)
This study is based on exhaustive research in government departmental correspondence and reports, folklore records, newspapers, handbooks, periodicals and prescriptive literature, as well as on the personal testimonies of ...
A review of 'The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney'
(Irish Labour History Society, 2007)
This book, based on interviews with twenty-seven Dublin and Belfast-born women, explores the Irish female experience during World War II. Combining personal testimonies with the evidence of contemporary newspapers, official ...
A review of 'Business archival sources for the local historian by Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh'
(Irish Labour History Society, 2011)
This, the most recent volume of the Maynooth Research Guides in Irish Local History series, brings together the expertise troika of the socio-economic historian, the accountant and the accounting
historian. The result ...
A review of 'Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography by Jacinta Prunty' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)
This study of the development of the Dublin slums over a period of a century and a quarter investigates the interrelated themes of public health, housing and poverty, as well as the reaction thereto by central and local ...
Review of 'The Regular Canons in the Medieval British Isles' Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (eds.) (Pre-published version)
(FMRSI [Forum for Medieval and Renassiance Studies in Ireland], 2013)
Insurgent Wicklow
(Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, 2001)
A review of 'The account books of the Franciscan House, Broad Lane, Cork 1764–1921. Edited by Liam Kennedy and Claire Murphy' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
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 ...
Review of 'Marriage Disputes - a fragmentary Old Irish law text' Fergus Kelly (ed.)
(Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015)