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This very vivid memoir describes the prison experiences of a Cork Fenian activist, John Sarsfield Casey. 'The Galtee Boy' was a name used by Casey when he sent letters for publication to newspapers, one of which was used against him at his trial in 1865. His memoir was written after he had returned from deportation and describes the period from his arrest in 1865, his trial in Cork and conditions in Mountjoy, Millbank, Pentonville and Portland...

For almost 800 years, from their arrival with the first wave of Anglo-Normans in 1169, the FitzGeralds - Earls of Kildare and, from 1766, Dukes of Leinster - were the pre-eminent noble family living in Ireland. This collection of essays provides original perspectives on various aspects of their aristocratic history.

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Brings together scholars of Ireland and Italy to examine the multiple intersections, impacts, and influences that flowed between Italy and Ireland, and Italian and Irish nationalists, in the nineteenth century. This book locates both Irish and Italian history in their wider European and comparative contexts.

In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting many common misunderstandings of his thinking and further developing ideas sketched out in his writings. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. Volume 17 in The Collected Works of Norbert Elias.

Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as 'the most learned Englishman I know'. The remarkable collection of his surviving letters, published in four volumes by University College Dublin Press between 2002 and 2004, covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egypti...

The Hanbidge family originated in Gloucester, and came to Ireland in the seventeenth century. They have been settled in the Donard Dunlavin area ever since, with branches in Dublin, and elsewhere. The Hanbidge memoirs provide a vivid and unique account of Protestant "small farmer" life in West Wicklow in the nineteenth century, together with recollections of the 1798 rebellion. There are also glimpses of Jonathan Swift and members of the Synge...

Soon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life, drawing on his personal memories and on articles he had written for the Athenaeum in the 1840s. It includes eyewitness accounts of O'Connell's appearance as he walked through the streets of Dublin. Taylor shows personal sympathy for O'Connell as the leader of oppressed people, but he also sees his talents as distorted by th...

Intends to chart Irish musical life across recorded history. This book also documents Ireland's musical relations with the world at large, notably in Britain, continental Europe and North America, and it seeks to identify the agencies through which music has become an enduring expression of Irish political, social, religious and cultural life.

First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation, this edition features his original English text of the essay 'The breakdown of civilisation'. It includes essays on duelling and its wider social significance, as well as on post-war terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry analyses the emergence and transformation of endangered masculinity through a sequence of close readings of compelling poetic texts in genres including bardic elegy and satire, aisling (or vision poem), accentual verse, song, oral lament, and comic verse, with accompanying translations, to provide a novel literary-critical exposition of a vibrant and understudied poetic tradition. Drawing on feminist, p...

This previously unpublished autobiography follows J.F.X. O'Brien from his youth as the son of a merchant to treasurer of the Irish Parliamentary Party. O'Brien's experiences were varied and far-flung: he studied at seminary in Ireland, studied medicine in Paris, befriended painter James Whistler, served as a mercenary in Nicaragua, and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He returned to Ireland and was imprisoned for his role in the Fe...

Explores the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political, social and cultural - between its gradual emergence in the wake of the Tudor proclamation of the 'Kingdom of Ireland' in 1541, and the office's abolition in the context of revolution, independence and partition in 1922.

Our knowledge of Cleopatra, one of the most famous woman in antiquity, comes from Plutarch's description of her. Plutarch, whose works have remained immensely popular through the years, has shaped our ideas about much of the ancient world. This book is suitable for the general reader who wants to learn more about Plutarch and women in antiquity.

Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. This title proceeds to recast the question of the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond the old philosophical dualisms of idealism/materialism.

This book tells the story of Father Robert O'Keeffe of Ireland, and his conflict with ecclesiastical authority. O'Keeffe's numerous lawsuits against his own curates, bishop, and the cardinal archbishop of Dublin, and his consequent removal as manager of a number of national schools and chaplain of the local workhouse commanded attention across Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the world. This book traces the Callan Schools Affair from its origi...

The Green Republic, a novel first published in 1902, actually describes real characters and events at the turn of the century in Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh. O'Gara's fictional town of Jigglestreet in South Tyrone accurately represents the real Poyntzpass where O'Gara, under his real name - William Robert MacDermott (1839-1918) - worked as a dispensary doctor. The 'novel' is both a sophisticated sociological study of rural Ulster Protestants and a ...