• 'A Tremendous Motivating Factor’: Irish Northern Aid and the ‘Belfast March Tour' 

  Collins, Robert (Royal Irish Academy, 2021)

  The ‘Belfast March Tour’, an annual tour of Irish-Americans to Northern Ireland, began in 1983 and was a joint endeavour between Sinn Féin and Irish Northern Aid (INA, or ‘Noraid’). The latter was founded in 1970, ...
• Expanding the narrative: public history, music, and the Irish country house 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Routledge, 2021)

  This chapter discusses the political context for research and interpretation of music in and around Irish country houses— the primary residences of former landowners on their estates— outlining its historical significance ...
• Duke Leopold of Lorraine, small state diplomacy, and the stuart court in exile, 1716–1729 

  Griffin, Stephen (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  This article examines how rulers of early modern small states attempted to survive and increase their status in the ever-shifting political world of early eighteenth-century Europe. To do so it takes the example of Duke ...
• Race, gender and morality: British representation and response to the Middle East in the exhibition space, 1850–1932 

  O'Farrell, Holly (University of Limerick, 2021)

  The exhibition space is an instrument through which we understand the world and consequently it is important to be aware of its use historically as a tool for creating systems of power and representation. This research ...
• Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context 

  Breathnach, Ciara; O'Halpin, Eunan (BMJ, 2021)

  At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article ...
• A Coherent inconsistency: Italian cultural diplomacy in Palestine, 1918–1938 

  Mazza, Roberto (palgrave macmillan, 2020)

  A recent report of the Italian NGO COSV (Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni per il Servizio Volontario) suggests that “it was not until the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean Conference that Italy began to take on a prominent role ...
• An honest broker? The American consul in Jerusalem, Otis A. Glazebrook (1914–20) 

  Mazza, Roberto (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2020)

  U.S. humanitarian activity in Jerusalem, and Palestine as a whole, from the early nineteenth century onward challenges the traditional view that the United States played a relatively marginal role in the region until the ...
• Lady Dudley’s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903–1923 

  Breathnach, Ciara (Syracuse University Press, 2012)

  This chapter outlines the attempts the Lady Dudley scheme made in tandem with the Congested Districts Board (CDB) to organize domiciliary medical care and to improve public health and sanitation in the West of Ireland ...
• Crime and punishment: Whiteboyism and the law in late nineteenth-century Ireland 

  Breathnach, Ciara; Geary, Laurence M. (Liverpool University Press, 2017)

  This chapter examines agrarian activism and violence in the south-west of Ireland, one of the country’s most disturbed regions, between 1879 and 1882. These were the years of the land war, the first of three phases of ...
• The triumph of proximity: the impact of district nursing schemes in 1890s' rural Ireland 

  Breathnach, Ciara (Springer, 2018)

  In February 1900, Father John P. Connelly, the Roman Catholic parish priest of Achill Island, County Mayo, wrote to the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses (QNI) in Dublin, pleading for funds to retain the ...
• Death notices and obituaries in provincial Ireland newspapers 1820-1900 

  Breathnach, Ciara; Butler, David (Irish Academic Press, 2013)

  This chapter explores the nature and function of obituaries and death notices in nineteenth-century Irish provincial newspapers. Employing a sample from a database of newspaper entries, it is argued that the use of obituaries ...
• French horns playing at every meal: musical activity at Carton, 1747-1895' 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (UCD Press, 2014)

  no abstract available
• Review: Marjorie Fitzpatrick, Music and power in eighteenth-century court society: Handel's Messiah and Protestant Ascendancy (Lewiston, New York, and Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016) 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2016)

  no abstract available
• Review. Emer Crooke, White elephants: the country house and the state in independent Ireland, 1922-73 (Dublin, 2018) 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  no abstract available
• '... it would be preposterous to bring a Protestant here' : religion, provincial politics and district nurses in Ireland, 1890-1904* 

  Breathnach, Ciara (Institute of Historical Research, 2015)

  In a country where traditional or ethno-medical practices prevailed well into the twentieth century, the interface between the wider populace and ‘modern medicine’1 was complicated by undercurrents of class, cultural ...
• Medical humanities: new frontier or back to the past? 

  Breathnach, Ciara; Walsh, Oonagh (Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium, 2014)

  In nomenclatural terms Medical Humanities is a relatively new discipline. Originating in the United States and Australia almost simultaneously, Medical Humanities is seen by many as a means of ‘making better doctors’ by ...
• Ilnacullin: The Bryce Legacy 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Office of Public Works, 2015)
• An ‘Italian palace’ in Co. Roscommon: the creation of Rockingham House, Boyle 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2013)

  The Rockingham estate, centred on the town of Boyle in Co. Roscommon, was the property of the King (afterwards King-Harman, later Stafford-King-Harman) family for more than 300 years.1 The family’s first association ...
• The Irish tobacco business 1779-1935 

  Whitney, Seán (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This thesis chronicles the manufacture, retailing and consumption of tobacco in Ireland. Its purpose is to demonstrate that tobacco played an important part in the economic and social life of the country. The tobacco ...
• Persevering post-PhD: contemporary issues for early career academics 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium, 2014)

  The rising levels of educational attainment in the Republic of Ireland are highlighted by the 2011 Census of Population reports published by the Central Statistics Office in 2012. Configured data contained in the penultimate ...

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