Publications

Maynooth Studies in Local History

Connell, Paul, Parson, priest and master: national education in Co Meath 1824-41 (1995) ISBN 0-7165-2570-4
Cronin, Denis A., A Galway gentleman in the age of improvement: Robert French of Monivea 1716-79 (1995) ISBN 0-7165-2572-0
Ó Dálaigh, Brian, Ennis in the eighteenth century: portrait of an urban community (1995) ISBN 0-7165-2571-2
Ó Maitiú, Séamas, The humours of Donnybrook: Dublin's famous fair and its suppression (1995) ISBN 0-165-2569-0
Broderick, David, An early toll-road: the Dublin-Dunleer turnpike, 1731-1855 (1996) ISBN 0-7165-2595-X
Crawford, John, St Catherine's Parish, Dublin 1840-1900: portrait of a Church of Ireland community (1996) ISBN 0-7165-2593-3
Gacquin, William, Roscommon before the Famine: the parishes of Kiltoom and Cam, 1749-1845 (1996) ISBN 0-7165-2597-6
Kelly, Francis, Window on a Catholic parish: St Mary's Granard, Co. Longford, 1933-68 (1996) ISBN 0-7165-2594-1
Smith, Charles V., Dalkey: society and economy in a small medieval Irish town (1996) ISBN-0-7165 2596-8
O'Dowd, Desmond J., Changing times: religion and society in nineteenth-century Celbridge (1997) ISBN: 0-7165-2635-2
Ó Duigneáin, Proinnsíos, The priest and the Protestant woman (1997) ISBN 0-7165-2639-5
King, Thomas, Carlow: the manor and town, 1674-1721 (1997 ) ISBN 0-7165-2634-4
Byrne, Joseph, War and peace: the survival of the Talbots of Malahide, 1641-71 (1997) ISBN 0-7165-2629-8
Cullen, Bob, Thomas L. Synnott: the career of a Dublin Catholic, 1830-70 (1997) ISBN 0-7165-2630-1
Sheil, Helen, Falling into wretchedness: Ferbane in the 1830s (1998) ISBN 0-7165-2704-9
Gilligan, James, Graziers and grasslands: portrait of a rural Meath community, 1854-1914 (1998) ISBN 0-7165-2699-9
Lambe, Miriam, A Tipperary estate: Castle Otway, Templederry, 1750-1853 (1998) ISBN 0-7165-2705-7
Clare, Liam, Victorian Bray: a town adapts to changing times (1998) ISBN 0-7165-2700-6
McHugh, Ned, Drogheda before the Famine (1998) ISBN 0-7165-2709-X
Barnard, T.C., The abduction of a Limerick heiress (1998) ISBN 0-8165-2715-4
O'Brien, Seamus, Famine and community in Mullingar Poor Law Union, 1845-1849 (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2678-6
Fitzgerald, Séamus, Mackerel and the making of Baltimore, Co. Cork, 1879-1913 (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2681-6
Ní Liatháin, Íde, The life and career of P.A. McHugh, 1859-1909: a footsoldier of the party (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2677-8
Moffitt, Miriam, The Church of Ireland community of Killala and Achonry, 1870-1940 (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2682-4
Murtagh, Ann, Portrait of a Westmeath tenant community, 1879-85. The Barbavilla murder (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2673-5
Lenehan, Jim, Politics and society in Athlone, 1830-1885 (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2676-X
Coleman, Anne, Riotous Roscommon: social unrest in the 1840s (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2671-9
Ní Mhurchadha, Maighréad, The Customs and Excise service in Fingal, 1684-1765 (1999) ISBN 0-7165-2672-7
Lawlor, Chris, Canon Frederick Donovan's Dunlavin, 1884-1896 (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2724-3
Massey, Eithne, Prior Roger Outlaw of Kilmainham (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2726-X
Dooley, Terence A.M., The Plight of Monaghan Protestants, 1912-26 (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2725-1
Friel, Patricia, Frederick Trench (1746-1836) and Heywood, Queen's County (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2721-9
Hunt, Tom, Portlaw, County Waterford, 1825-7: portrait of an industrial village and its cotton industry (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2722-7
Gurrin, Brian, A century of struggle in Delgany and Kilcoole (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2723-5
Crawford, William H., The management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2743-x
Mulryan Moloney, Maeve, Nineteenth century elementary education in the archdiocese of Tuam (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2714-3
Lane, Fintan, In search of Thomas Sheahan (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2742-1
Doyle, Anthony, Charles Powell Leslie II’s estates at Glaslough, County Monaghan (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2739-1
Ní Ghiobúin, Mealla, Dugort, Achill Island, 1831-1861 (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2740-5
Cullen, Frank, Cleansing rural Dublin (2001) ISBN 0-7165-2738-3
Urwin, Margaret, A County Wexford family in the Land War (2002) ISBN 1-85182-709-9
Cronin, Elizabeth, Fr. Michael Dungan’s Blanchardstown, 1836-1868 (2002) ISBN 1-85182-711-0
Stewart, Austin, Coalisland, County Tyrone, in the Industrial Revolution, 1800-1901 (2002) ISBN 1-85182-708-0
Coldrick, Bryn, Rossin, County Meath (2002) ISBN 1-85182-710-2
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, The holy well tradition (2002) ISBN 1-85182-706-4
Sweeney, Frank, The murder of Conell Boyle, County Donegal, 1898 (2002) ISBN 0-85182-707-2
Conwell, John Joseph, A Galway landlord during the Great Famine (2003) ISBN 0-85182-762-5
Lucey, Donnacha Seán, The Irish National League in Dingle, County Kerry, 1885-1892 (2003) ISBN 1-85182-765-x
Clarke, Joe, Christopher Dillon Bellew and his Galway estates, 1763-1826 (2003) ISBN 0-85182-763-3
Goodbody, Rob, Sir Charles Domvile and his Shankhill estate, County Dublin, 1857-1871 (2003) ISBN 0-85182-761-7
Candon, Gerardine, Headford, County Galway, 1775-1901 (2003) ISBN 1-85182-764-1
Gallagher, Ronan, Violence and nationalist politics in Derry City, 1920-1923 (2003) ISBN 0-85182-760-9
Fallon, Rosaleen, A County Roscommon wedding, 1892 (2004) ISBN 0-85182-820-6
Friel, Mary, Dancing as a social pastime in the south-east of Ireland, 1800-1897 (2004) ISBN 0-85182-815-x
Kennedy, Edward, The land movement in Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, 1879-1891 (2004) ISBN 0-85182-819-2
Dooley, Terence, Inniskeen, 1912-1918 (2004) ISBN 0-85182-816-8
Clare, Liam, Enclosing the commons (2004) ISBN 0-85182-818-4
Connell, Carmel, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 1832-1900 (2004) ISBN 0-85182-817-6
Collins, Sinéad, Balrothery Poor Law Union, County Dublin, 1839-1851 (2005) ISBN 1-85182-893-1
Kelly, Liam, Kiltubrid, County Leitrim (2005) ISBN 1-85182-898-2
Hall, Donal, World War 1 and nationalist politics in County Louth, 1914-1920 (2005) ISBN 1-85182-896-6
Purdue, Olwen, The MacGeough Bonds of the Argory (2005) ISBN 1-85182-894-X
Twomey, Brendan, Smithfield and the parish of St. Paul, Dublin, 1698-1750 (2005) ISBN 1-85182-895-8
Kelly, James, The Liberty and Ormond boys (2005) ISBN 1-85182-897-4
Coughlan, Brian, Achill Island tattie-hokers in Scotland and the Kirkintilloch tragedy, 1937 (2006) ISBN 1-84682-003-0
Clare, Linda, On the edge of the Pale (2006) ISBN 1-84682-004-9
McMahon, Michael, The murder of Thomas Douglas Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851 (2006) ISBN 1-84682-008-1
Coffey, Leigh-Ann, The planters of Luggacurrran, County Laois (2006) ISBN 1-84682-007-3
Busteed, Mervyn, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh (2006) ISBN 1-84682-006-5
Moran, Gerard, Sir Robert Gore Booth and his landed estate in County Sligo, 1814-1876 (2006) ISBN 1-84682-005-7
Scott, Brendan, Cavan, 1609-1653 (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-062-5
Roulston, William J., Restoration Strabane, 1660-1714 (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-060-1
Dunnigan, Diane, A south Roscommon emigrant (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-058-8
Reilly, Ciarán, Edenderry, County Offaly, and the Downshire estate, 1790-1800 (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-061-8
Broderick, David, Local government in nineteenth century County Dublin (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-057-1
Bagnall, Sean, Tallaght, 1835-1850 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84882-113-4
Kelly, Jennifer,‘The downfall of Hagan’: Sligo Ribbonism in 1842 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-115-8
Lally, Bernadette, Print culture in Loughrea, 1850-1900 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-116-5
Rees, Jim, The Fishery of Arklow, 1800-1950 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-118-9
Vesey, Padraig, The murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-119-6
MacCarthy, R.B., The diocese of Lismore, 1801-1869 (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-117-2
Milne, Kenneth, The Dublin liberties, 1600-1850 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-191-2
Cronin, Denis A., Who killed the Franks family? Four Courts Press, Dublin (2009) ISBN 98-1-84682-190-5
Priestley, Ciarán, Clonsilla and the Rebellion of 1798 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-192-9
Powell, Martyn J., Piss-pots, printers and public opinion in eighteenth-century Dublin (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-193-6
McDermott, Micheál, Gypsum mining and the Shirley estate in south Monaghan, 1800-1936 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-059-5
Twomey, Brendan, Dublin in 1707 (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-194-3
Matthews, Ann, The Kimmage Garrison, 1916 (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-259-9
O'Brien, Helen, The Famine clearance in Toomevara, County Tipperary (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-260-5
Bairéad, Eoin C., The bombing of Dolphin's Barn, Dublin, 1941 (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-261-2
McCarthy, Tony, The Shaws of Terenure (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-262-9
Cronin, Maura, The death of Fr John Walsh at Kilgraney (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-263-6
McGettigan, Darren, The Donegal Plantation and the Tír Chonaill Irish, 1610-1710 (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-264-3
Kraus, Erin, Wise-woman of Kildare: Moll Anthony and popular tradition in the east of Ireland (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-292-6
Kenny, Tomás, Galway: politics and society, 1910-23 (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-293-3
Luddy, Maria, Matters of deceit: breach of promise to marry cases in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Limerick (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-294-0
Moffitt, Miriam, Clanricarde’s planters and land agitation in east Galway, 1886-1916 (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-295-7
Mullaney-Dignam, Karol, Music and dancing at Castletown, County Kildare, 1759-1821 (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-296-4
Pegley, Suzanna M., The Land Commission and the making of Ráth Cairn: the first Gaeltacht colony (2011) ISBN 978-1-84682-297-1
Cunningham, Bernadette, Clanricard and Thomond, 1540-1640 provincial politics and society transformed (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-352-7
Delaney, Mary, William Steuart Trench and his management of the Digby Estate, King’s County, 1857-71 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-353-4
Mooney, Joe, The changing fortunes of the Headfort estates, 1870-1928 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-354-1
Reilly, Ciarán, John Plunket Joly and the Great Famine in King’s County (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-355-8
Fleming, Catherine, The transportation of women from Kildare to Van Diemen’s Land in 1849 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-356-5
Cosgrove, Patrick, The Ranch War in Riverstown, Co. Sligo, 1908 (2012) ISBN 978-1-84682-357-2
Costello, Alan, Portmarnock and the Plunketts, 1850-1918: the Portmarnock Brick and Terracotta Works (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-403-6
Crehan, Tom, Marcella Gerrard's Galway estate, 1820-70 (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-401-2
Joyce, Edmund, Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-404-3
Scuffil, Catherine, The South Circular Road, Dublin, on the eve of the First World War (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-405-0
Thorpe, Ruth, Women, architecture and building in the east of Ireland, c.1790-1840 (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-400-5
Whearity, Peter F., The Easter Rising of 1916 in north County Dublin: a Skerries perspective (2013) ISBN 978-1-84682-402-9
Masterson, Rory, Medieval Fore, County Westmeath (2014) ISBN 978-1-84682-5132
O'Connor, Emmet, Derry Labour in the age of agitation, 1889-1923: New unionism and old, 1889-1906 (2014) ISBN ISBN 978-1-84682-5149
Rogan, Marion, Charles Tisdall of County Meath, 1740-51 (2014) ISBN 978-1-84682-5156
Cronin, Neil, The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork (2014) ISBN ISBN 978-1-84682-5170
Kelly, Michael, Struggle and strife on a Mayo estate, 1833-1903 (2014) ISBN ISBN 978-1-84682-5187
Dooley, Gerard, Nenagh, 1914-21: years of crises (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-577-4
Doyle, David, The Reverend Thomas Goff, 1772-1844: property, propinquity and Protestantism (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-578-1
Empey, Adrian, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, 1190-1610: custom and conflict in a baronial town (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-579-8
Grace, Pierce A., The middle class of Callan, Co. Kilkenny, 1825-45 (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-580-4
Donoghue, Fergal, Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-581-1
O'Riordan, Ann, East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan house, 1922 (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-582-8
Casey, Denis, The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth's Irish primer (2016) ISBN 978-1-84682-608-5
Darcy, Eamon, The world of Thomas Ward: sex and scandal in late seventeenth-century Co. Antrim (2016) ISBN 978-1-84682-609-2
McCarthy, Martin, The committal of two Mallow children to an industrial school in 1893 (2016) ISBN 978-1-84682-610-8
O'Connor, Emmet, Derry Labour in the age of agitation, 1889-1923: Larkinism and syndicalism, 1907-23 (2016) ISBN 978-1-84682-611-5
Symes, Glascott J.R.M., Sir John Keane and Cappoquin House in time of war and revolution (2016) ISBN 978-1-84682-613-9
Brady, Declan, Culture, politics and local government in Fingal, 1891-1914 (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-641-2
Cabal, Marc, Kerry, 1600-1730: the emergence of a British Atlantic county (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-642-9
Dooley, Terence, Castle Hyde: the changing fortunes of an Irish country house (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-643-6
Martin, Susan Marie, The Shawlies: Cork's women street traders and the 'merchant city', 1901-50 (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-644-3
Moody, Janet, The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911 (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-645-0
McDonald, Clair, The eighteenth-century landscape of Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois (2017) ISBN 978-1-84682-646-7
Flanagan, Catherine, The Great Famine in Kinsale (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-723-5
Moran, Gerard, Fleeing from famine in Connemara: James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigation scheme in the 1880s (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-721-1
Nolan, Michael, The Parnell split in Westmeath: the bishop and the newspaper editor (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-719-8
O'Keeffe, Tadhg, Tristernagh Priory, County Westmeath: colonial monasticism in medieval Ireland (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-718-1
Smith, Cathal, Thomas Bermingham: nineteenth-century land agent and 'improver' (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-720-4
Stanfiel, Heather, The Walker Testimonial and symbolic confict in Derry (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-722-8
Breen, Mary, Waterford port and harbour, 1815-42 (2019) ISBN 978-1-84682-800-3
Leeson, Suzanne, The Kirwan murder case, 1852: a glimpse of the Irish Protestant middle class in the mid-nineteenth century (2019) ISBN 978-1-84682-801-0
O'Ferrall, Fergus, John Ferrall: master of Sligo workhouse, 1852-66 (2019) ISBN 978-1-84682-803-4
Ó Luain, Kerron, Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798-1803 (2019) ISBN 978-1-84682-804-1
Whelan, Oliver, Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635-1875 (2019) ISBN 978-1-84682-805-8
Casey, Denis, Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells (2020) ISBN 978-1-84682-858-4
Lyons, Emma, Morristown Lattin, County Kildare, 1630-1800: the estate and its tenants (2020) ISBN 978-1-84682-857-7
Scott, Brendan, Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610-1714: the origins of an Ulster Plantation town (2020) ISBN 978-1-84682-855-3
Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey, Crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Belfast: the story of John Linn (2020) ISBN 978-1-84682-856-0
Byrne, David, The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69 (2021) ISBN 978-1-84682-973-4
Hanna, Michael V., Denis Brenan Bullen (1802-66), Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster (2021) ISBN 978-1-84682-969-7
Hunt, Tom, Peader Cowan (1903-62): Westmeath GAA administrator and political maverick (2021) ISBN 978-1-84682-9-703
Mayes, Frank, Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo (2021) ISBN 978-1-84682-9-710
O'Brien, Declan, The Dublin Cattle Market's decline, 1955-73 (2021) ISBN 978-1-84682-9-727
Colgan, John, Nathaniel Colgan, 1851-1919: the life, times and genealogy of an enigmatic Dubliner (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-033-2
Donlon, Regina, The burning of Knockcroghery village, Co. Roscommon, 1921 (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-030-1
Heffernan, David, Early modern Duhallow, c. 1534-1641: the crisis, decline and fall of Irish lordship (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-029-5
McGeeney, Lisa, Nursing and midwifery in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882-1922 (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-032-5
Moss, Rachel and Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, 'Modest and civil people': religion and society in medieval Galway (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-028-8
Pegley, Suzanne M., Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power (2022) ISBN 978-1-80151-034-9
Beckton, Samuel Gary, The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8 (2023) ISBN 978-1-80151-093-6
Byrne, Seán, Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath: The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833 (2023) ISBN 978-180151-094-3
Casey, Denis, Portmagee, Co. Kerry: The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village (2023) ISBN 978-180151-095-0
Cronin, Neil, Marsden Haddock and the Androides: Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world (2023) ISBN 978-180151-096-7
Jones, Laurence, Day Place, Co. Kerry: 'The most respectable locality in Tralee' (2023) ISBN 978-180151-097-4
Murphy, Fergus, The Mansfields of Co. Kildare: A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915 (2023) ISBN 978-180151-098-1

Maynooth Research Guides

Raymond Refaussé, Church of Ireland records (2000) ISBN 0-7165-2101-4
Terence Dooley, Sources for the history of landed estates in Ireland (2000)
ISBN 0-7165-2797-2 (pbk)
Patrick J. Corish & David Sheehy, Records of the Irish Catholic Church (2001)
ISBN 0-7165-2701-4
Brian Gurrin, Pre-census sources for Irish demography (2002) ISBN 1-85182-619-X
Philomena Connolly, Medieval record sources (2002) ISBN 8-85182-618-1
E. Margaret Crawford, Counting the people: a survey of the Irish censuses 1813-1911
(2003) ISBN 978-1-85182-673-4
Jacinta Prunty, Maps and map-making in local history (2004) ISBN 1-85182-699-8
Brian Hanley, A guide to Irish military heritage (2004) ISBN 1-86182-789-7
ISBN 1-85182-789 hbk, ISBN 1-85182-789-7 pbk
Brian Griffin, Sources for the study of crime in Ireland (2005) ISBN 1-85182-821-4
Tony Barnard, A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland 1500-2000 (2005) ISBN 978-1-85182-951-2 hbk, ISBN 978-1-85182-822-2 pbk
Terence Dooley, The big houses and landed estates of Ireland (2007) ISBN 978-1-84682-039-7 hbk, ISBN 978-1-85182-964-7 pbk
Patrick J. Duffy, Exploring the history and heritage of Irish landscapes (2007) ISBN 978-1-85182-965-1 ISBN 1-85182-618-1
Liam Kelly, Photographs and photography in Irish local history (2008) ISBN 978-1-84682-125-7 hbk , ISBN 978-1-84682-126-4 pbk ISBN 1-85182-619-X
Katharine Simms, Medieval Gaelic sources (2009) ISBN 978-1-84682-138-7
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, Business archival sources for the local historian (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-133-2
Susan M. Parkes, A guide to sources for the history of Irish education, 1780-1922 (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-127-1
C.J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source-material for Irish historians (2010) ISBN 978-1-84682-132-5
O'Keeffe, Tadhg, Medieval Irish buildings, 1100-1600 (2015) ISBN 978-1-84682-248-3
McGee, Frances, The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830-1865 (2018) ISBN 978-1-84682-136-3

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