Lord George Hill, Improving landlord or cruel ‘Lord of the Soil’?
The modernising Irish Landlord who married not one but two nieces of Jane Austen. By John Joe McGinley Lord George Augusta …
The Whitefeet: Social Conflict in Kilkenny and Laois Before the Famine
By Terry Dunne There is a great sense of prescience to what English Radical M.P. George Poulet Scrope wrote eleven years before …
‘A Hopeless and Thankless job’ The Dispensary Doctor in Ireland
By John Dorney Sickness in rural Ireland before modern times was a serious business. Medical help was hard to find. In 19th …
Feed the School Children – Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine
Review of an Exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin. By Patricia Byrne. At the height of the Great Famine, …
The Irish Girl and the American Letter: Irish immigrants in 19th Century America
By Martin Ford The written missive had remarkable significance for trans-Atlantic migration. Indeed, the peopling of North America owed more than a …
Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland
By Patricia Byrne Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2018 ISBN: 9781785371721 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “His was a crusade that failed to touch …
The Great Irish Famine 1845-1851 – A Brief Overview
By John Dorney. See our other overviews here. The Great Famine was a disaster that hit Ireland between 1845 and about 1851, …