A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

This collection of essays explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also the ways in which

An examination of Irish society and politics, providing a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the middle classes in Irish political life and the pub

In the 1890s, most of the inhabitants of the west of Ireland experienced great poverty and hardship, living - as they did - on farms that were too small to prov

Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one m