Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord
from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism …

Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics
far beyond Ireland itself. The Irish Land War, internationalised partly through the influence of …

Despite being the first substantial Irish Catholic settlement in British North America, little
work has been done on the Irish Catholic community in St. John's, Newfoundland in the …

This study provides the first detailed analysis of the influence and persistence of Irish Party
individuals, organisations and political culture in independent Ireland (1922-49). While …

The United Irish League (UIL) was a bridge between the populist mass movements
engineered and harnessed by Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell in the …

I am grateful to my supervisors, Dr Andrew Newby and Dr Michael Brown, for their
encouragement, support and advice. Their feedback on numerous draft chapters and on …

The nineteenth-century radical intellectual and Irish nationalist Michael Davitt was
profoundly influenced by his experiences in Victorian penitentiaries. In Yeats's …

Studies of landed estates are important for understanding not just the life of the landlords,
but also for assessing the social history of the community resident on estates. This thesis …

When John Redmond declared 'No Irishman in America living 3,000 miles away from the
homeland ought to think he has a right to dictate to Ireland'the Irish leader unwittingly made …

This project is a study of the relationships among people, place, and narrative in Ulster.
Using Ordnance Survey memoirs (1824-1844), provincial newspapers, and testimony before …