Maynooth Studies in Local History

Denis Casey - Portmagee : The Origins of an Atlantic Smuggling Village - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to...

Hanna, Michael V - Denis Brenan Bullen ( 1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster : The controversial Career of a Cork Surgeon- PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

Denis Brenan Bullen was a controversial figure in the medical history of Cork in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. As a teenager in 1820 he played a central role when his father...

John Colgan - Nathaniel Colgan 1851-1919 : The Life, Times and Genealogy of an Enigmatic Dubliner

Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was known of...

Kerron Ó Luain - Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions 1798-1803 - PB

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Laurence Jones - Day Place : The Most Respectable Locality in Tralee - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashionable and sought-after address in the...

Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001

This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish...

Mairead Lynch - From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon - The St George Estate, 1613-1864

Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Shannon estate. It explores how military...

Mary Friel - Dancing as a Social Pastime in the South-east of Ireland 1800-1897 - PB

At the beginning of the 19th century, dancing was viewed as a necessary social skill and dancing masters and musicians were found throughout Ireland to cater for all classes. From the charitable ball...

Megan McAuley - Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’? The Vikings and their Legacy in Donegal

Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were Vikings...

Peter A. Daly - Mary Mercer's Dublin Legacy 1724-2024 - PB - BRAND NEW

This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school in Rathcoole, which...

Samuel Gary Beckton - The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8 - BRAND NEW 2023

In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. This was a...

Seán Byrne - Poverty in Pre-Famine Westmeath : The Findings of the Poor Commission of 1833 - PB - BRAND NEW

The scale of the Great Famine has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815-1845. In 1833 the government established the Royal Commission for Inquiring into the...