This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the la

A full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the

The history of emotions has become a central preoccupation across the humanities and this volume considers the rich possibility of writing a history of happines

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as we

The book examines how an organisation originating in late eighteenth-century Ireland became a significant and controversial element in Liverpool history. Using