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‘Arán an Lae Amáireach’: Flour Extraction and Fortification in Emergency Ireland, 1939–1948 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kelly Adamson
During the Second World War (1939–1945), the rate that flour was extracted from wheat to make wholemeal bread was continuously increased to save wheat supplies in Ireland. Once the dangers of eatin...
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A Firm Level Database of Irish Creameries, 1897–1921 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli, Christian Vedel
We present a microlevel database of Irish cooperative creameries covering the period 1897–1921. The data were hand collected from the annual reports of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (...
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Extending the English Pale: Berminghams’ Country, and the Rise of Sir William Bermingham, Baron of Carbury (c.1485–1548) Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Steven G. Ellis
Recent arguments for a shrinking, increasingly ‘gaelicised’ Pale have disguised the fact that the English Pale was expanding under the early Tudors. Piecemeal conquests by the Kildare earls from Ir...
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The Night and Life on the Streets: Disorder in an Irish Town in the 1820s and 1830s Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Marc Caball
It is argued in this essay that the streets of Tralee in south-west Munster in the late 1820s and early 1830s were characterised by a protean, anarchic and often oppositional culture which was both...
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Parental Financial Assistance and Psychological Well-Being Among Korean Emerging Adults: Pressure from and Fulfillment of Parental Career Expectations as Mediators Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sangmin Oh, Jaerim Lee
Many emerging adults receive parental financial assistance (PFA) to prepare for their future and career, but it can also be a psychological burden through parental career expectations. The purpose ...
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Social Media Use as an Impulsive ‘Escape From Freedom’ Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Phil Reed, Will Haas
It has been suggested that avoiding choice represents an anxiety-avoidance strategy, which has not been investigated in the context of social media. To this end, the current study explored the rela...
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Malpractice Lawsuits Relating to Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kasim Qureshi, Muhammad U. Farooq, Philip B. Gorelick
Background and PurposeMedical-legal claims for malpractice relating to the use of alteplase for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) are usually for failure to treat rather than for complications. The adven...
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The potential politics of the porous city Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Theresa Enright, Nathan Olmstead
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the “porous city,” outlining three sets of contributio...
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MRI Does Not Improve Inter- or Intrarater Reliability for Hip Arthritis Grading Systems Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 W. Michael Pullen, Kinsley Pierre, Ivan Wong, Stephen K. Aoki, T. Sean Lynch, Richard C. Mather, III, Olufemi R. Ayeni, J.W. Thomas Byrd, Marc R. Safran
Background:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and radiographs are often utilized in assessing for preoperative osteoarthritis in patients undergoing hip preservation surgery.Purpose:To determin...
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Results of Endoscopic Labral Repair With Concomitant Gluteus Medius and/or Minimus Repair Compared With Outcomes of Labral Repair Alone: A Matched Comparative Cohort Analysis at Minimum 2-Year Follow-up Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nolan S. Horner, Reagan S. Chapman, Jordan H. Larson, Shane J. Nho
Background:There is a paucity of information available to clinicians on outcomes of patients undergoing endoscopic surgery for labral repairs and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome with simultan...
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Axial Compressive Loading Attenuates Early Osteoarthritis by Reducing Subchondral Bone Remodeling Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jianqun Wu, Yonghao Pan, Yangyi Yu, Qihao Yang, Qisong Liu, Yang Liu, Jinhao Zhong, Linhao Fu, Haotian Cai, Chao Liu, Guangheng Li
Background:Mechanical loading and alendronate (ALN) can be used as noninvasive physical therapy methods for osteoarthritis (OA). However, the timing and efficacy for treatments are unknown.Purpose:...
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‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Colum Kenny
Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin. From 1899 onwards, through detailed articles in his weekly papers and otherwise, he strongly advocated the economic development of Ireland and the adoption of qua...
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Ireland and the Marshall Plan: E.C.A.'s Manoeuvring to Promote Dollar Tourism Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Anne Groutel
When the Economic Cooperation Administration (E.C.A.), the American agency in charge of the implementation of the Marshall Plan, was faced with an increasing balance of payments deficit in Ireland,...
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The Irish Receipt Roll of 1301–2: Data Science and Medieval Exchequer Practice Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Brendan Smith, Mike Jones
The English conquest and colonisation of Ireland, which began in the years around 1170 was accompanied by the introduction of an administrative system based on English models. From the point of vie...
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Politics as Usual: Charles Edward Trevelyan and the Irish and Scottish Fisheries Before and During the Great Famine Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2022-01-17 John Leazer
Since the Great Irish Famine a debate has raged concerning the culpability of the British government, especially in the person of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles Edward Trevelyan, and i...
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‘Oh, Oh Rodeo!!’: American Cowboys and Post-Independence Ireland1 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Conor Heffernan
In 1924 Tex Austin, an American showman, brought his world travelling Rodeo to Croke Park in Dublin. Coming at a time of significant social and political upheaval in Ireland, Austin's rodeo promise...
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Book Review: Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster by Guy Beiner Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Andrew R. Holmes
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Book Review: The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War 1594–1603 by Ruth A. Canning Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Brian Mac Cuarta SJ
with consequent effects on how prisons were constructed, until the idea of the ‘separate’ and ‘silent’ system began to win favour in the 1830s, again with implications for how Irish prisons were built or modified. Butler’s insightful handling of the course of Irish county courthouse and county gaol construction from 1750 to 1850 is supported by over 300 illustrations, many of them copies of sumptuous
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Book Review: Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City Housing Estate in Belfast by Marianne Elliott Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 C. J. Woods
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Book Review: Ernest Blythe in Ulster: The Making of a Double Agent? by David Fitzpatrick Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Marie Coleman
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Book Review: Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, Culture and Society by Katharine Simms Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Eamon Darcy
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Book Review: Early Medieval Ireland, 431–1169 by Matthew Stout Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Michael Potterton
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Book Review: Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750–1850 by Richard J. Butler Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Brian Griffin
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Book Review: The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation by David Dickson Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Toby Barnard
plying lodging and food to crown forces, pressure on their resources that escalated as the war proceeded, and that left the community exhausted at war’s end. Apart from those contributions regulated by custom and law, they suffered extortion and corruption in their localities from military figures; further, there was resentment that their traditional local control of the military enterprise was passing
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Book Review: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild (eds.) Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Kerron Ó Luain
study, epitomised by Conor Morrissey’s recent dedicated study of the subject (based on a PhD supervised appropriately by Fitzpatrick). The more substantial second part, ‘Disguises’, draws heavily on what Fitzpatrick identifies as Blythe’s journalism, although the reader will have to make up their own mind as to whether they are convinced by the evidence presented here for authorship of all the pieces
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Book Review: Landholding in the New English Settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875 by Oliver Whelan Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Brian Griffin
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019, 62 pp., €9.95 paperback) Kerron Ó Luain, Rathcoole and the United Irish Rebellions, 1798–1803 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019, 71 pp., €9.95 paperback); Mary Breen, Waterford Port and Harbour, 1815–42 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019, 67 pp., €9.95 paperback) Suzanne Leeson, The Kirwan Murder Case, 1852: A Glimpse of the Protestant Middle Class in the Mid-Nineteenth
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Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2020 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Thomas McGrath
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Book Review: Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Niall Whelehan
grouping, the Invincibles. The assassins themselves gained notoriety but, at the same time, according to O’Donnell in her analysis of broadside ballads surrounding the event, were exalted as ‘self-sacrificing heroes’ (p. 258). O’Donnell’s study of the ballads, as with the above-mentioned investigation of the threatening letters by Dunne, offers a useful popular corrective to analyses of crime and violence
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Book Review: Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923 by Conor Morrissey Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Ian d’Alton
Peterloo Massacre and the Cato Street Conspiracy. By the 1870s, Ribbonism had become less shadowy and mainly found ‘expression in public national identification’ and ‘collective mutuality’ (p. 229). The book brings to light comical images from these years in the magazine Zozimus that poked fun at the constabulary’s exaggeration of the Ribbon threat. By the close of the century, Ribbon societies merged
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Book Review: Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860–1914 by Maeve O’Riordan Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jennifer Redmond
O’Kane, the Ulster IRA fighter Rory Graham was ‘a sort of white-blackbird’; George Irvine, who had become vice-commandant of 1st Battalion Dublin Brigade of the IRA was to his co-religionists ‘an iconoclast, who sought rupture with the past’ (pp. 184, 185). Finding a valued place for Protestant nationalism within the dominant political narrative of early twentieth-century Ireland was virtually impossible
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‘Not Christian, Civil or Human Creatures, But Heathen or Rather Savage and Brute Beasts’: Andrew Trollope and the ‘Reform’ of Ireland in the 1580s Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-08-25 David Heffernan
The closing years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) saw a hardening of attitudes among many of the New English in Ireland towards the Irish and Old English communities there. Historians have concentrated on a number of works which exemplify this attitude, notably Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland. This article focuses on an earlier proponent of this outlook, a wandering
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‘Responsible, effective and caring’: Gay Health Action, AIDS Activism and Sexual Health in the Republic of Ireland, 1985–1989 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-08-20 David Kilgannon
This article explores the role and impact of Gay Health Action (GHA), a voluntary AIDS organisation that operated in the Republic of Ireland between 1985 and 1989. Drawing on their publications and media engagement, it argues that GHA played a significant role in educating the general public about AIDS, while this group also challenged ideas about sexual health and dispelled negative stereotypes associated
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Reading and Print Cultures in Waterford, 1865–1939 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-08-04 David Toms
This article sets out to explore the emergence of reading and print cultures in Waterford over the period from the opening of the city’s Free Public Library to the outbreak of the Second World War in the twentieth century. It is intended to add to the growing body of writing emerging on reading and books in Ireland by honing in on the development of a local reading culture in an era of more democratic
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The State’s Attitude and Response to the Threat Posed by Tobacco Smuggling in Ireland 1780–1850 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Seán M. Whitney
Tobacco as one of the ‘old reliables’ has presented governments with a steady and lucrative revenue stream that continues to this day. The enormous difference between tobacco’s prime cost and that paid by the consumer is due to the imposition of government duties. This revenue was particularly threatened in the period in question by smugglers and their land-based accomplices who were attracted by the
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On the Structure of Wealth-Holding in Pre-Famine Ireland Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Neil Cummins, Cormac Ó Gráda
Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth-holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional spread, and compare them with their British counterparts. We also discuss the share of Catholics and Quakers
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Book review: Raising Dublin, Raising Ireland: A Friar’s Campaign. Father John Spratt, O. Carm. (1796–1871) Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Ciarán McCabe
From the outset, this work appears to be a standard biography of a person of historical significance – namely, Fr John Spratt (1796–1871), a Carmelite priest born in the heart of Dublin, who ministered nearly all of his life in his native city. Yet, Fergus D’Arcy’s study serves as a comprehensive exploration of numerous social, political and religious changes in Dublin from the early nineteenth century
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Book review: Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Alice Mauger
In Strangling Angel, Michael Dwyer chronicles a nation’s crusade against a disease which might best be described as the embodiment of a parent’s nightmare. The moniker that lends this book its title refers to diphtheria, an infection characterised by the growth of a ‘leathery membrane in the lower airways’, often resulting in death by suffocation (p. 2). In Ireland, this menace loomed large and was
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Book review: The Colonial World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Eamon Darcy
Edmund Borlase, author of The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England (1675), claimed that Richard Boyle’s death was caused by the conclusion of the first cessation of arms in September 1643 during the wars of the Three Kingdoms. Both Charles I and the Confederate Catholics of Ireland agreed to a one-year ceasefire between the Irish Catholic ‘rebel’ and royalist forces in Ireland, much to the
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Book review: A New History of the Irish in Australia Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Sophie Cooper
Patrick O’Farrell’s 1986 book The Irish in Australia casts a long shadow on the study of the Irish in Australia. The first academic book to grapple with the long and complex histories of the Irish who first came to the Australian colonies in 1791, it provided scholars with a strong starting point, particularly with regard to the Catholic Church in Australia. However, O’Farrell’s work was problematic
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Book review: The Jesuit Irish Mission: A Calendar of Correspondence, 1566–1752 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 James Kelly
By comparison with the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Augustinians, the Carmelites and the Benedictines, the Jesuits might be characterised as relative latecomers to the Irish historical stage. The first Jesuit mission to Ireland was undertaken by two members of the Society in 1542, less than a decade after Ignatius Loyola penned his influential Spiritual Exercises and two year after Pope Paul III
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Book review: The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand, 1807–1922 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Regina Donlon
In this accomplished, innovative and extensively researched monograph, Ann Power charts the ‘struggles, hardship, courage, resourcefulness, tenacity and contribution’ of one of the less well-known congregations of Irish sisters, the Sisters of St Brigid, or the Brigidines, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (p. 18). The book, which is largely transnational in character, surveys the
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Book review: The Life and Career of Archbishop Richard Whately: Ireland, Religion and Reform, The Life and Times of Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin 1823–1852 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Ciarán McCabe
bishops of Dublin and Armagh respectively was extremely limited indeed. It was not the case in the Pale, as Booker mistakenly states, that most beneficed clergy employed curates (p. 118); rather that the holders of the revenues of impropriated benefices, mostly religious houses, commonly employed stipendiary priests rather than vicars to serve the cure of souls – and this reviewer showed several years
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Book review: Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Bernadette Cunningham
forensic examination of the subject. Oddly, Murray’s presence on Whately’s commission goes unmentioned by Morrissey, and more could have been made of the Catholic archbishop’s views on poverty and welfare through the sources that the author does engage with – Murray’s personal papers, his published sermons and newspaper articles of his public utterances, typically delivered at annual meetings of charitable
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Book review: The Irish Presbyterian Mind: Conservative Theology, Evangelical Experience, and Modern Criticism, 1830–1930 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Daniel Ritchie
therefore, offers a welcome injection that will reinvigorate debates about Boyle. Fenlon’s account of Boyle splurging on new clothes and his subsequent obsessive fascination with his spending (pp. 158–9) offers another (entertaining) reminder of Boyle’s parsimoniousness and his desire to promote English ‘manners’ and ‘fashions’ in Ireland. Furthermore, the significance of Boyle’s life to other contexts
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Book review: Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Marnie Hay
text. It is important to remember that the number of manuscripts pertaining to Irish Presbyterians in the period surveyed are relatively few and far between. And those that do exist are often concerned with matters of a personal or political nature. The author has, nevertheless, made good use of the J. Gresham Machen papers housed in the Montgomery Library, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
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Book review: Church and Settlement in Ireland Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Elizabeth Boyle
teeth of the child skeletons exhibit both subtle and substantial marks of disease, malnutrition and trauma, and the manner in which they were buried has exposed how they were cared for in death’ (p. 86). Famine orphans in Canada are the focus of three essays in the book. Mark G. McGowan’s essay challenges the rose-tinted view of French-Canadian families adopting these children and welcoming them into
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Book review: The Archives of the Valuation of Ireland, 1830–65 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 William J. Roulston
badly received decision away. In chapters nine and ten, Australia’s engagement with Irish politics is explored, both in relation to views on Home Rule and also the experiences of Irish politicians who undertook speaking tours of Australia. Malcolm and Hall conclude the book with an epilogue on Irish Australia in the twenty-first century. They bring together many of the themes of the book by discussing
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Book review: Researching Ulster Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600–1800 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Eamon Darcy
(p. 304). Yet, perhaps the greatest strength of this work is the way in which Power seamlessly laces this dense contextual discussion with unique personal narratives. Throughout, the reader is introduced to immigrants such as Mother Ignatius Fitzpatrick who used her musical skills to generate income for the community in Coonamble. Similarly, against the backdrop of complicated diocesan negotiations
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Book review: Envoy Extraordinary: Professor Smiddy of Cork Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Graham Brownlow
highlighted as potential sources for genealogical research. Another fascinating insight into real lives lived is a vignette taken from the London Gazette dated 24 April 1679. A Scottish minister called Lawry from Fermanagh was pardoned for killing three notorious ‘Tories’. Allegedly, Lawry was almost shot in the incident but avoided injury as one of his accomplices managed to chop the hand off of the
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Book reviews Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Henry A. Jefferies
This study of modem Qur'iin interpretation presupposes familiarity with the details of Bible criticism. The attentoin is focused on Qur'finjc (narrations) about events that are believed by Muslims to be historic, such as the construction of the Ka'ba by Abraham and Ishmael or the story of prophets like Joseph, Moses, and Jesus. A basic shortcoming of the book under review is its taking for granted
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Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2019 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Deirdre Foley
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Economic and Social History Society of Ireland: Secretary’s Report for the Year 2019 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Rebecca Stuart
1. Officers of the Society for 2019 were: James Kelly (president); Ella Kavanagh (treasurer); Rebecca Stuart (secretary); Chris Colvin (web editor); Deirdre Foley (social media officer); Catherine Cox and Graham Brownlow (journal editors); Jonathan Wright (book reviews); Juliana Adelman, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Eoin McLaughlin and Matthew Stout (committee members); and Catherine Cox (representative on the
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Commodities and the Import Trade in Early Plantation Ulster Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Brendan Scott
As a new wave of British settlers moved into Ulster following the plantation there in the early seventeenth century, ports, towns, markets and fairs were both established and further developed. The survival of the port books for Londonderry, Coleraine, Carrickfergus and the Lecale ports of County Down for the years 1612–15 offers detailed information of goods imported into Ulster which affords us insights
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Fashion or Function? The Use of Silver in Seventeenth-Century Irish Society Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Jessica Cunningham
What was more important to consumers in seventeenth-century Ireland: the fashion or the function of their silver? This article disentangles the multiple and complex motivations informing the robust acquisition and consumption by individuals and institutions of a wide-ranging assortment of silverwares. Using the body of extant plate and a large array of documentary sources, this article poses and addresses
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Serving the ‘Divine Economy’: St Joseph’s Asylum for Aged and Virtuous Females, Dublin, 1836–1922 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Olivia Frehill
St Joseph’s Asylum for Aged and Virtuous Females catered for Catholic aged, single women from 1836 to 1993, with the focus of this article on the period 1836–1922. Founded prior to the 1838 advent ...
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Catholic Convent Schools and the History of Irish Girlhood: Curriculum and Continuity 1780–1920 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Mary Hatfield
This article traces the educational mission of three Catholic convent boarding schools from the late eighteenth century until the 1920s, highlighting striking similarities in Catholic female education across different temporal and geographical contexts. Using institutional records, community annals and student roll books, this article considers how the priorities and structure of female education can
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Centuries of Irish Childhoods Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Marnie Hay
This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of Irish Economic and Social History (Volume 47) that illuminates the diversity of childhoods experienced by children growing up in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora between the mid sixteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The article explores the development of the history of children and childhood in Ireland as a growing area of academic
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‘The Child Condemned’: The Imprisonment of Children in Ireland, 1850–1908 Irish Economic and Social History Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Geraldine Curtin
In the 1850s, tens of thousands of children were imprisoned in Ireland. At that time there was a growing concern internationally that incarceration of children with adult criminals was inappropriate. This concern resulted in the passage of legislation in 1858 which facilitated the opening of reformatory schools in Ireland. By 1870, ten reformatories had opened, yet, as this article argues, three quarters