Maynooth Studies in Local History

Brendan Twomey - The Perjury Trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare : Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant Ascendancy

On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect of a ‘sham...

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...

Hunt, Tom - Peadar Cowan ( 1903-62) : Westmeath GAA administator and political maverick- PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

Imprisoned during the War of Independence, Peadar Cowan accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and served as an officer in the Irish army until 1931. While based in Athlone, he became involved in the...

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...

Lyons, Emma - Morristown Lattin, County Kildare 1630-1800 : The estate and its tenants- PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

Through an examination of the estate records, this case study provides an insight into the adaption and survival of a Catholic-owned estate during two tumultuous periods in Irish history. The...

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...