Old Man of the Sea

DS:    How do you come to have such an interesting name as de Courcy Ireland? JDCI:    I don’t actually know the full story. The de Courcys were, of course, a […]

The Vanishing Irish: Ireland’s population from the Great Famine to the Great War

Many countries today face, or will soon face, one of two population problems. Some countries’ populations are growing so rapidly that sheer numbers will endanger their ability to provide schooling, […]

Eighteenth-Century Estate Maps

Before the Ordnance Survey undertook the mapping of the country from Malin to Mizzen in the 1830s, cartography, surveying and landscape map production in Ireland were essentially a private undertakings. […]

Labour in the West of Ireland: working life and struggle 1890-1914, John Cunningham (Athol Books, £12)

In the late 1880s trade unionism was an almost unknown phenomenon among unskilled and semi-skilled workers in Connacht. In the agrarian sector it was only the herdsmen who had made […]

Local Government in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Virginia Crossman (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast £4.95)

Over the past three decades historians have documented fully the rise and successful mobilisation of Irish national consciousness during the nineteenth century and the subsequent establishment of the Irish Free […]