Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland library

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland library 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 rsai@rsai.ie, +353 (0)1 6761749
 Wed & Thur: 10.30am–12.30pm & 2–4.30pm By Tony Canavan This year the Royal Society […]

The Two Tipperarys, Donal A. Murphy (Relay Publications, Nenagh, £25)

The existence of two administrative counties with all the appropriate apparatus of local government within the geographical county of Tipperary has always raised the question as to how this arrangement […]

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 […]

Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Maria Luddy (Cambridge University Press, hbk £40, pbk £17.95)

Women’s contribution to philanthropy in the nineteenth century has been well recognised by religious and social historians of the last decade, and in this scholarly work Maria Luddy provides a […]

Irish Convict Lives, Bob Reece (ed.)(Crossing Press, £18)

Irish Convict Lives, a sequel to Exiles from Erin, aims to explore the personal aspects of the Irish convict experience in Australia. The eight essays present pictures of a small […]