Irish Historical Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Irish Historical Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Towards a ‘world-wide empire of the Gael’: nationalism, identity, and the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, 1912–223
Gymnastics and childhood in early-nineteenth-century Dublin2
The struggle for mastery in Ireland, 1442–1540: culture, politics and Kildare-Ormond rivalry. By Alan Kelly. Pp xi, 188. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024. £75.2
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The Atlantic as mythological space: an essay on medieval Ethea. By Alfonso J. García-Osuna. Pp 298. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press. 2023. US$58.00.1
‘Miserable conflict and confusion’: the Irish question and the British national press, 1916–22. By Erin Kate Scheopner. Pp 275. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2022. £95.1
Subscription theater: democracy and drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880–1939. By Matthew Franks. Pp 258. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2020. US$89.95.1
Une révolutionnaire Irlandaise en France: Maud Gonne et l'internationale nationaliste, 1887–1914. By Pierre Ranger and Anne Magny. Pp 171. Oxford: Peter Lang. 2021. €52.86.1
Noraid and the Northern Irish Troubles, 1970–94. By Robert Collins. Pp 221. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. €50.1
Mary Hayden: Irish historian and feminist, 1862–1942. By Joyce Padbury. Pp. 362. Dublin: Arlen House. 2020. €25.1
Overlords, underlords and landlords: negotiating land and lordship in plantation Munster1
State formation, diplomacy and sport: the British Empire Games, Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1930–381
Building up and tearing Ireland down0
Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny. Edited by Jane Fenlon and Sarah Maguire. Pp 184, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €50 hardback.0
Progress, challenges and opportunities in early modern gender history, c.1550–17200
‘The experimental non-experimental committee’: governing the workhouse in late-eighteenth-century Dublin0
On every tide: the making and re-making of the Irish world. By Sean Connolly. Pp 488. London: Little Brown. 2022. £12.99/£25.0
Using concepts in medieval history: perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500. Edited by Jackson W. Armstrong, Peter Crooks & Andrea Ruddick. Pp 201. Cham: Springer. 2022. £22.99.0
Gaelic Ulster in the middle ages: history, culture and society. By Katharine Simms. Pp 568. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2020. €65.0
Sylvester O'Halloran's influence on medicine in eighteenth-century Ireland0
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The Stauntons of Galway in China: Irish Catholic networks and the expansion of the British Empire in Asia0
Irish women and the Great War. By Fionnuala Walsh. Pp 254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. £75.0
The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–710
Flaying the sheep: the 1657 assessment tax and the problems of government in Cromwellian Ireland0
Politics and political culture in Ireland from restoration to union, 1660–1800: Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill. Edited by Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons. Pp 224. Dublin: F0
The land war in Ireland: famine, philanthropy and moonlighting. By Laurence M. Geary. Pp xi, 300. Cork: Cork University Press. 2023. €39 hardback.0
The first great charity of this town: Belfast Charitable Society and its role in the developing city. Edited by Olwen Purdue. Pp xv + 310. Newbridge, Co. Kildare: Irish Academic Press. 2022. £24.79.0
Lives and afterlives: The Hiberno-Latin Patrician tradition, 650–1100. By Elizabeth Dawson. Pp 179. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 179pp. €70 paperback.0
L'homme-nation Daniel O'Connell et le laboratoire politique Irlandais, 1775–1847. By Laurent Colantonio. Pp 398. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion. 2023. €29 paperback.0
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief. By Ronald Hutton . Pp xix, 456. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2024. £25 hardback; £12.99 paperback.0
Irish women in religious orders, 1530–1700: suppression, migration and reintegration. By Bronagh Ann McShane. Pp 301. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. £75.0
‘Our sacred and civil obligations as Christians and as Citizens’: religion, charity and governance in early nineteenth-century Dublin and Edinburgh0
The dead of the Irish Revolution. By Eunan O'Halpin and Daithi Ó Corráin. Pp 720. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2020. £32.0
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Ireland, the Basques and the Spanish Civil War0
The challenge of writing histories of ‘women’: the case of women and the law in late medieval Ireland0
Black spirituals for Irish evangelicals: the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Irish tours, 1873–60
‘Information from which money can be made is what is required’: William Blackwoods and the Irish Ordnance Memoir Commission of 1843-40
Colonialist intervention in a metropolitan revolution: reconsidering A remonstrance of divers remarkeable passages0
Dwelling(s) in nineteenth-century Ireland. Edited by Heather Laird and Jay R. Roszman. Pp 300. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2023. £79.20.0
Learning behind bars: how I.R.A. prisoners shaped the peace process in Ireland. By Dieter Reinisch. Pp 240. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2022. US$70.0
The Americanization of the Apocalypse: creating America's own Bible. By Donald Harman Akenson. Pp xvi, 502. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. £89 hardback.0
British Army intelligence in provincial Ireland, 1919‒1921: organisation, outcomes and the 6th Division blacklist0
Shadow of a taxman: who funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Pp 336. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £65.00.0
De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American diplomacy in times of crisis,1932–1939. By Bernadette Whelan. Pp 387. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. £75.0
Exploring peasant and bourgeois identity: haggards, masers, sheep and spoons in later fifteenth-century County Dublin0
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The siege of Londonderry. By Piers Wauchope. Pp 276. Dublin: Four Courts. 2023. €45.0
Walter Ralegh: architect of empire. By Alan Gallay. Pp xiv, 560. New York: Basic Books. 2019. £35.0
‘Doctors for export’: medical migration from Ireland c.1860 to 1960. By Greta Jones. Pp 248. Schöningh: Brill. 2021. €119.0
Civilised by beasts: animals and urban change in nineteenth-century Dublin. By Juliana Adelman. Pp 234. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. £80.0
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Derbforgaill: twelfth-century abductee, patron and wife0
The political thought of the Irish Revolution. Edited by Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher. Pp 389. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. £22.99.0
Donegal: the Irish Revolution, 1912–23. By Pauric Travers. Pp 183. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. € 24.95.0
Aiding Ireland: the Great Famine and the rise of transnational philanthropy. By Anelise Hanson Shrout . Pp 263. New York: New York University Press. 2024. $35.0
A lacuna in Irish historiography: the Irish peregrini from Eoin MacNeill to The Cambridge history of Ireland and beyond0
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's financial crisis. By Charles Read. Pp 341. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. £25 paperback.0
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century0
Ordinary lives, death, and social class: Dublin city coroner’s court, 1876–1902. By Ciara Breathnach. Pp 274. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £81 hardcopy.0
Barristers in Ireland: an evolving profession since 1921. By Niamh Howlin. Pp xii, 403. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €55.0
They ‘never dared say “boo” while the British were here’: the postal strike of 1922 and the Irish Civil War0
Mere Bagatelles: women’s diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810. By Amy Prendergast . Pp 235. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature. £19.99 paperback.0
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Birth of a state: the Anglo-Irish Treaty. By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks. Pp 272. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2021. €19.95.0
Shadows from the trenches: veterans of the great war & the Irish revolution (1918-1923). By Emmanuel Destenay. Pp 218. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2021. €30 paperback. - Conscription0
America and the making of an independent Ireland: a history. By Francis M. Carroll. Pp 312. New York: New York University Press. 2021. US$35.0
The devil from over the sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland. By Sarah Covington. Pp x, 409. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £25.0
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The Routledge History of Irish-America. Edited by Cian McMahon and Katheleen Costello-Sullivan . Pp xxii, 570. New York: Routledge. 2024. €190 hardback; €40.75 ebook.0
The diaries of Kathleen Lynn: a life revealed through personal writing. By Mary McAuliffe and Harriett Wheelock. Pp xi, 350. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2023. €40 paperback.0
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Gendered hierarchies and marked bodies: narratives of household violence in early modern Ireland0
Landscape design & revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815. By Finola O’Kane. Pp 262. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2023. £45 hardback.0
Margaret MacCurtain (1929–2020): an appreciation0
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century0
The coffin ship: life and death at sea during the Great Famine. By Cian T. McMahon. Pp 328. New York: New York University Press. 2021. US$35.00.0
Just who wanted dominion home rule?: ‘moderates’ and the Irish War of Independence0
Leitrim: the Irish Revolution, 1912–23. By Patrick McGarty. Pp 173. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2020. €24.95. - Kildare: the Irish Revolution, 1912–23. By Seamus Cullen. Pp 199. Dublin: Four Courts Pre0
The first Irish cities. An eighteenth-century transformation. By David Dickson. Pp xiv, 336. London/New Haven: Yale University Press. 2021. £25.00.0
The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560–1760. Edited by Mary Ann Lyons and Brian Mac Cuarta. Pp 269, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. €55.0
Dublin and the Great Irish Famine. Edited by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Ciarán McCabe and Ciarán Reilly. Pp xxv, 196. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2022. €30 paperback.0
The Tilson case: church and state in 1950s' Ireland. By David Jameson. Cork: Cork University Press. 2023. Pp xix, 266. £35/€39 hardback.0
Thomas Drew and the making of Victorian Belfast. By Sean Farrell. Pp 360, illus. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. 2023. $85.00 hardback; $39.95 paperback.0
The pope, a knight and a bishop on the edge of Christendom: the politics of exclusion in thirteenth-century Ireland0
Faith and fatherland? The Ancient Order of Hibernians, northern nationalism and the partition of Ireland0
Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85.0
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Review article: Writing in Japanese on Irish history0
Edmund Sexten Pery: the politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland. By David A. Fleming. Pp 310. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €65 hardback.0
William Sharman Crawford and Ulster radicalism. By Peter Gray. Pp 467. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2023. €45.0
Changing land: diaspora activism and the Irish Land War. By Niall Whelehan. Pp 216. New York: NYU Press. 2021. US$30.0
The case of Ireland: commerce, empire and the European order, 1750–1848. By James Stafford. Pp 298. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. £75 hardback.0
‘Many attend chiefly in search of pleasure’: the Great National Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society, 1868–800
The Weaver Street bombing in Belfast 1922: violence, politics and memory0
S. Stefano al Monte Celio, Donnchad mac Briain and papal legates in Ireland, 1064–12030
Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: landlordism, liberal Catholicism and unionism in nineteenth-century Ireland. By Aidan Enright. Pp 244. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. €50 hardback.0
The Irish Department of Finance, 1959–99. By Ciarán Casey. Pp 255. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration. 2022. €35 hardback.0
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Kilmichael: the life and afterlife of an ambush. By Eve Morrison. Pp 292. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2022. €19.95.0
The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in eighteenth-century Ireland. Edited by Brian Gurrin, Kerby A. Miller and Liam Kennedy. Pp 496. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commissi0
Developing an agenda for the history of women religious in Ireland: historiography and potentiality0
A Dublin Magdalene laundry: Donnybrook and church-state power in Ireland. Edited by Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. £21.99.0
Ireland and empire in the late nineteenth century. By Fergal O'Leary. Pp 276. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2023. £80 hardback.0
The textual terrain: developments and directions in women's writing, 1500–17000
The role of the Irish language summer college in revolutionary Ireland, 1913–19210
Conflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922. By Darragh Gannon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. Pp 304. £85.0
The Irish Revolution: a global history. Edited by Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry. Pp 376. New York: New York University Press. 2022. US$35.00.0
Ireland and the Crusades. Edited by Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy and Tadhg O'Keeffe. Pp 256. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. €55.0
Ireland's new traditionalists: Fianna Fáil, republicanism and gender, 1926–1938. By Kenneth Shonk. Pp 240. Cork: Cork University Press. 2021. €39.0
The origin legends of early medieval Britain and Ireland. By Lindy Brady. Pp 272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. £75.0
Ethnographic collections in Northern Ireland and the Solomon Islands tomako (canoe) at the Ulster Museum, 1898–20230
Thomas Hobbes and political thought in Ireland,c.1660–c.1730: the leviathan released. By Matthew Ward . Pp viii, 294. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. £90 hardback.0
The First World War diary of Noël Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers: Gallipoli, Salonika, the Middle East and the Western Front. Edited by Richard S. Grayson. Pp 348. Martlesham: Army Record Society/B0
Anglicizing tudor Connacht: the expansion of english rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many. By Joseph Mannion. Pp 278. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2024. Hardback €55/£50.0
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‘From a woman's point of view’: the Presbyterian archive as a source for women's and gender history in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland0
Hugh O'Neill in Irish historical discourse, c.1550–20210
Radical Basque nationalist-Irish republican relations: a history. By Niall Cullen. Pp xxii, 347. Abingdon: Routledge. 2024. £135 hardback.0
Irish liberty and British democracy: the third Irish home rule crisis, 1909–14. By James Doherty. Pp. 308. Cork: Cork University Press. 2019. €39.0
The operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48. By Bríd McGrath. Pp xvi, 553. Dublin: Four Courts Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society. 2023. €65 hardback.0
Revolution and nationalism in Treatyite political thought, 1891–19240
Irish women’s speeches volume ii. A rich chorus of voices. Edited by Sonja Tiernan. Pp xiv, 192. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2022. €25.0
British and Irish religious orders in Europe, 1560–1800: conventuals, mendicants and monastics in motion. Edited by Cormac Begadon and James E. Kelly. Pp 276. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2022. £75.0
Promoting ‘English civility’ in Tudor Ireland: ideology and the rhetoric of difference. By Carla Lessing. Pp 256. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag. 2021. €28.0
Anarchy and authority: Irish encounters with Romanov Russia. By Angela Byrne . Pp 243. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. 2024. €18.95.0
Denis Brenan Bullen (1802–66) inspector of anatomy for the province of Munster: the controversial career of a Cork surgeon. By Michael Hanna. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - The impac0
Clan na Gael and other Irish nationalist girl scouts during the era of the Irish Revolution, 1911‒230
Gay and lesbian activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973–93. By Patrick McDonagh. Pp 219. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. £76.50.0
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Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland's capital. By Conor Curran. Pp 352. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €35.00.0
Networking early modern Irish women0
Britishness, Irishness and class: Catholic identities in Anglo-Australia, 1880–19160
The rise and fall of the Clann Éinrí Aimhréidh Uí Néill: dynastic feuding and geopolitics in the late medieval Irish Sea world0
‘A most curious collection of foreign beasts’: menageries in Ireland, 1790–18400
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Making empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world. By Jane Ohlmeyer. Pp xxii, 336. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. £30.0
Confessionalism & mobility in early modern Ireland. By Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Pp 374. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. £90.0
Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish agrarian violence, imperial insecurity, and British governing policy, 1830–1845. By Jay Roszman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. £75.0
The impact of military demobilisation on rising Irish migration to London, c.1750–18500
Brides of Christ: women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland. Edited by Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane and Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB. Pp xvi, 215. Dublin: Four Court0
‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform0
Haughey. By Gary Murphy. Pp.716. Dublin: Gill Books. 2021. £25.99/€27.99.0
The long land war. The global struggle for occupancy rights. By Jo Guldi. Pp 577. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2022. £30.0
‘Our very existence is threatened’: co-operation and rationalisation in the Irish post-primary school sector, 1966–700
Ireland and partition: contexts and consequences. Edited by N. C. Fleming and James H. Murphy. Pp 388. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Press. 2021. $150/£118 hardback.0
Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world: a transnational history. By Deirdre Raftery. Pp xvi, 221. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. Global Histories of Education Series. €117.69.0
The selection of the English undertakers in the Ulster Plantation, 1609–100
Plantagenet Ireland. By Robin Frame. Pp 384. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2022. €55.0
A ‘Turk’ in eighteenth-century Dublin: the rise and fall of Doctor Achmet Borumborad0
Imagining Ireland's pasts: early modern Ireland through the centuries. By Nicholas Canny. Pp xiii + 414. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. £90.00.0
Exploring the ordinary: migration, sexuality and crime, and the progression of the ‘Agenda’ in Irish women's history, 1850s–1950s0
‘Her own and her children's share’: luck, misogyny and imaginative resistance in twentieth-century Irish folklore0
The gender politics of marriage in Ireland0
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-19900
Households of God: the regular canons and canonesses of St Augustine and of Prémontré in medieval Ireland. Edited by Martin Browne and Colmán Ó Clabaigh. Pp xix, 316, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press.0
Aristocratic women in Ireland, 1450–1660. The Ormond family, power and politics. By Damien Duffy. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2021. £75 hardback.0
New Zealand's representative: Jessie Mackay, the Self-Determination for Ireland League of New Zealand and the Irish Race Congress0
Empire and emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic fringe, 1780–1850. By S. Karly Kehoe. Pp xii, 287. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2022. $32.95.0
Ireland's English Pale, 1470–1550. By Steven G. Ellis. Pp 200. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2021. £75.0
Prelude to the Tudor conquest: Henry VIII and the Irish expedition of Thomas Howard, earl of Surrey, 1520–220
Commanders of the British forces in Ireland, 1796–1922. By Tony Gaynor. Pp 398, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €54.0
Uncivil war: the British army and the Troubles, 1966–1975. By Huw Bennett. Pp xv, 427. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. £25.0
Select document: The last will and testament of Diarmaid Ó Conchobhair, prior of Cluain Tuaiscirt na Sionna0
Women and the decade of commemorations. Edited by Oona Frawley. Pp 374. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2021. US$80/38.0
Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400–1600: Economics, Environment, and Ecology. By Patrick W. Hayes. Irish Historical Monographs, Vol. 27. Pp xv, 311. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2023. £90 hardback.0
Conor Cruise O’Brien and the activity of being an historian0
Moral formations. Discipline and religion in the Irish army, 1922–32. By Daniel Ayiotis. Pp xxi, 249. Dublin: Eastwood Books. 2024. €25 paperback.0
The making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: a memoir by David Goodall. Edited by Frank Sheridan. Pp vii, 237. Dublin: National University of Ireland. 2021. €35.00/€20.00.0
Charlie Daly: republican brothers, partition and the ‘sham’ northern offensive0
Not Irish enough: an Anglo-Irish family's three centuries in Ireland. By Sara Day. Washington D.C.: New Academia. 2021. £34.0
‘Wilde shamrock manners’: anglicisation and the politics of gesture in early modern Ireland0
Ancestral voices in Irish politics: judging Dillon and Parnell. By Paul Bew. Pp 252. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. £25 hardback.0
The Belfast Boycott: consumerism and gender in revolutionary Ireland (1920–1922)0
Irish political prisoners, 1960–2000: braiding rage and sorrow. By Seán McConville. Pp. 1045. London: Routledge. 2021. £190.0
The politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840–1900: from reform to expansion. By James H. Murphy. Pp 224. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2020. €45.0
Introduction: a new agenda for women's and gender history in Ireland0
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