This book describes the social and economic conditions in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, that is after the Great Famine. Though the famine seve

The companion volume to this one is now almost ready. This book deals with the social and economic aspects of Ireland in the pre-Famine period. The second volum

South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been ra

This book describes the social and economic conditions in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, that is after the Great Famine. Though the famine seve

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces