‘A gift from Scotland’:golf’s early days in Ireland

The history of Irish sport is a neglected realm. There is no general history of sport in Ireland, and reliable histories of individual sports are few and far between. Yet […]

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs; a Source for Emigration in the 1830s

In Ireland as a prelude to a nationwide valuation of land and buildings, the so-called Griffith’s Valuation, the Ordnance Survey was directed to map the whole country at a scale […]

The Miasma:epidemic and panic in nineteenth-century Ireland Joseph Robins (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, £7.95)

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘miasma’ as ‘infectious or noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous particles or germs floating in and polluting the atmosphere’. Before the later […]

St Patrick’s Benevolent Registered Association, Kilrush

Sir, —I am researching the history of St Patrick’s Benevolent RegisteredAssociation, which was based in Henry Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare, inthe late 1800s. According to Bassett’s Directory, 1880–1, its officersat […]

Edmund Rice (1762-1844); apostle of modernisation

The forthcoming beatification of Edmund Rice will inevitably focus attention on his life and deeds. Yet, the absence of a diary, memoirs or a contemporary biographer restrict our image of […]