Browsing by Subject "Irish History"
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14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800
(Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2021)14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ... -
The architectural sources for the Museum Building
(Four Courts Press, 2019)If the purpose of this research project, as stated by Christine Casey at the start of this book, is to highlight the process of making (rather than meaning), then we must query the ‘making’ that went into the design itself. ... -
The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid
(2021)The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ... -
The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780)
(Four Courts Press, 2020)In the early years of the 1730s two major building projects were taking place in Dublin city, one in the public sphere, the other in the domestic arena. Both stood as very visible manifestations of the wealth and ambition ... -
Best of times, worst of time
(Martello Publishing, 2021)James Malton’s twenty-five engravings of Dublin were first published in London between 1792 and 1797, appearing at intervals in batches. The young Malton had been trained as an architectural draughtsman, coming to Dublin ... -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
'"Dochum glorie De agus onora na hEireann": Revising History in Ireland'
(Palgrave, 2020)This chapter discusses the details of the widely proposed “downgrading” of history in the Irish school curriculum. -
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European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742 - 814 CE)
(2013)Charlemagne (c.742 – 814 CE) had such a successful political and military career that for the entire subsequent medieval period his reign was portrayed as a model one for all European rulers to aspire to. But for all his ... -
Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2010)The aim of this project was to collate historical, proxy and observational (recent) records, and analyse the information within this variety of sources for incidences of extreme weather events and natural disasters, which ... -
Finnegans wake: Mapping a national consciousness
(2005)In James Joyce's Finnegans wake, the political and sexual mores placed upon Irish culture by the presence of the British Empire and the Catholic Church during the late colonial and early post colonial period of modern ... -
Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas
(2022)Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ... -
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
(2020)Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ... -
The Georgian Castle at Clongowes
(2020)The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ... -
The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth
(Four Courts Press, 2016)
