Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History
Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History

Author: James Quinn

Publisher: University College Dublin Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 191082092X

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Examines why Young Ireland attached such importance to the writing of history, how it went about writing that history, and what impact their historical writings had.

Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin's Streets and their Inhabitants
Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin's Streets and their Inhabitants

Author: Kevin C. Kearns

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 1997-10-01

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 071716568X

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The first half of this century was the heyday of Dublin's vibrant and bustling traditional street life. Now in Dublin's Street Life and Lore, through the vivid oral histories of the participants themselves, Professor Kevin Kearns chronicles this rich street life and lore for future generations. The fascinating and often poignant verbal testimonies of Dublin's last surviving tram drivers, lamplighters, market traders, street dealers, spielers, buskers, local characters and others of their vanishing breed, comprise a wholly original and captivating personal historical record of Dublin's long renowned street life, told in Professor Kearns's uniquely engaging and informative style. Dublin Street Life and Lore: Table of Contents Introduction - Dublin Street Life and Oral Urbanlore - Historical Perspectives on Dublin Street Types - Street Figures of Yesteryear Lamplighters Dockers Postmen Chimney Sweep Signwriter Pawnbroker Fortune Teller - Dealers, Spielers, Vendors and Collectors Market and Street Dealers Spieler Newspaper Vendors Scrap Collectors - Transport and Vehicles Men Jarveys Tram Drivers Pioneer Cabbie Bicycle and Car Parkers Busman - Animal Dealers, Drovers and Fanciers Drovers Horse Dealers Pig Raiser Bird Market Men Pigeon Fanciers - Entertainers and Performers Buskers Pavement Artists Mimes and Clowns Bardic Street Poets

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730

Author: Jane Ohlmeyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 1349

ISBN-13: 1108651054

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This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The remaining chapters are more thematic, with chapters on 'Society', 'Culture', and 'Economy and Environment', and often respond to wider methodologies and historiographical debates. Interdisciplinary cross-pollination - between, on the one hand, history and, on the other, disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, geography, computer science, literature and gender and environmental studies - informs many of the chapters. The volume offers a range of new departures by a generation of scholars who explain in a refreshing and accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880

Author: James Kelly

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 110834075X

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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

The Dublin Metropolitan Police
The Dublin Metropolitan Police

Author: Jim Herlihy

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Some 12,566 men enlisted in the Dublin Metropolitan Police between the force's formation, in 1836, and its amalgamation with the Garda Siochana, in 1925. Herlihy is interested less in providing a formal history of the force, he writes, than in positioning the DMP in its historical context, showing the sort of men recruited to the force, describing the conditions they worked under, and supplying anecdotal information about a few members. A final chapter offers tips for descendants who want to trace their ancestors in the DMP. Herlihy is also the author of two books on the Royal Irish Constabulary. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Author: Richard Ward

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1137444010

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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.