This book adds a major culture-based study to the field of Irish history. It addresses a topic and touches on themes that continue to be relevant and debated in contemporary Ireland. Dr.Myers makes a major contribution to the “New Military History” of Ireland and adds the memory of the First World War of one of the “small nations” that emerged in the wake of that conflict to the numerous memory studies that exist for the primary combatant nations (Britain, France, and Germany).

This research monograph a takes a bracing new look at the pieties and received scholarship dealing with the Irish Dramatic Revival of the late 19th and early 20 th century. Dr Vandevelde has reexamined the non canonical Irish theatre world and focuses on the understudied and the misunderstood world of commercial Dublin theatres, The Gaelic League and Daughters of Erin, National Players, The Player’s Club, Ulster Literary Theatre among numerous amateur, semi-professional and professional companies.

Description:
1. Introduction: Irish and Latin documents as sources for Irish history
(Including a discussion of problems in using so-called ‘traditional’ information; the difficulties in dating early texts found in later manuscripts; the compilatory nature of Irish annals; differing attitudes to Irish and Latin language sources; the local rather than national nature of much pre-Norman material)

2. Chapter 1: Fifth-century and earlier sources

Nicholas Rowe flourished during the first quarter of the 18thc: he was poet laureate to George I, the author of eight plays(three of which were great successes) and he was the esteemed translator of Lucan’s PHARSALIA as well as the first modern editor of Shakespeare’s plays. But most of all he was known as a playwright.

Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell(1816 – 1898)rose to fame in Ireland and in the United States as the “mother of the patriot” Charles Stewart Parnell. Christened “the Lady Chieftaness” by an admiring American crowd at one of her many public rallies on behalf of Home Rule, her history has always been partial and ancillary to that of her famous son. Indeed her role in the lives of her daughters Fanny and Anna Parnell—both activists in the National cause—has been little noticed nor studied.

Anna Parnell, sister of the great Irish leader Charles Stuart Parnell, was a major political force in her own right and a pioneer radical journalist and feminist. This critical edition of her political essays discusses her, her writings for Irish, British and American newspapers. In 1880, the Parnell sisters, Anna and Fanny, founded two branches of the Ladies Land League, one in New York and one in Dublin. While C.S.Parnell was confined to Kilmainham prison, his two sisters aimed to keep up the agitation for Irish Home Rule as well as but pressure on the British government to permit it.

This is the first serious historical study of birdkeeping in America from colonial times to the present. It documents and discusses the various forms of commercial birdkeeping and the opportunities it offered to women and some minorities. Research into state and national political activities of birdkeepers and their sometimes strained relations with each other (hobbyists vs professionals, preservation of environment vs. commercial exploitation) are discussed.

A three volume reference work describing the disciplines of 18th century Church history, geography and travel. Details from Wesley's diaries, journals, correspondence, and prose works are used to compile a calendar covering 3 November 1721 to 2 March 1791. Wesley's visits to England Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Georgia, South Carolina, Holland and Germany are tracked including where possible the specific activities in which the founder and leader of Methodism was engaged. Also included is an exhaustive list of primary and secondary sources as well as an index of persons and titles.

This hitherto unpublished diary, edited and with notes by Dr. Rogal, provides a valuable research tool for understanding the place of religion in immediate post Revolutionary America specifically amongst the American Methodist Episcopal Church members Bishop Whatcoat had as his flock.

Chapters: 1. Ireland and the wider world in the 12th century. 2. The coming of The Normans. 3. The establishment and consolidation of the lordship of Ireland. 4. The response of the native Irish. 5. Internal tensions within the lordship. 6. The Bruce Invasion. 7. The mid fourteenth century: factionalism, decline, and the "Black Death". 8. Attempts at recovery: Royal intervention. 9. Fifteenth century Ireland. 10. The rise and fall of the Kildare Geraldine supremacy. 11. The Reformation. 12. The renewal of Royal interest in Ireland. 13.