Personal narratives as historical sources: the journal of Elizabeth Smith 1840-1850 (3:1)

Janet K. TeBrake Among the many resources available for historical study and research on nineteenth-century Ireland are the numerous personal narratives by women, the most common form of writing women […]

Donnybrook Fair: carnival versus lent

In 1829 a Dublin carman named Foley was charged with ‘furious driving’ in Sackville Street while going to post a letter for a gentleman in the Post Office. When asked […]

Irish co-operatives From creameries at the crossroads to multinationals by Carla King & Liam Kennedy

On the evening of 18 April 1894 a triumphant Horace Plunkett wrote in his diary: The meeting to inaugurate the lAOS [Irish Agricultural Organisation Society] came off and was brilliantly […]

The Terry Alt Movement 1829-31 by James S. Donnelly, Jr.

The Terry Alt movement of 1828-31 has been one of I the least studied of pre-Famine rural revolts, partly because it was dwarfed by the great anti-tithe agitation with which […]

Emigrant Letters I take up my pen to write these few lines by David Fitzpatrick

The uses of literacy, the ability to read and write, are central to the construction of popular culture. Cultural historians have long been engrossed with the reading habits of ordinary […]