Irish Economic and Social History

1974 - 2025

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Volume 52, issue 1, 2025

A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824 * pp. 5-40

Mary O'Sullivan

The Famine That Wasn't? Ireland, 1799–1801 pp. 41-71

Liam Kennedy and Peter M. Solar

From Broken Glass to Stained Paper: A Family and a Business in Nineteenth-Century Ireland pp. 72-90

Paul Star

Tests of Manhood: Uncovering the History and Popularity of Stone Lifting in Ireland pp. 91-109

David Nolan and Conor Heffernan

‘Our Cattle Problem’: Fianna Fáil, the Irish Cattle Trade and the Economic War, 1932–1938 pp. 110-131

Michael Loughman

Electricity to Rural No. 1 – The Beginning of Ireland's Quiet Revolution pp. 132-152

Martin Quinn

Dynamism in a Stagnating Sector: The Birth of Ireland's Beef Industry 1950–60 pp. 153-172

Declan O’Brien

Book Review: Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Síobhra Aiken pp. 173-174

Jennifer Redmond

Book Review: British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion by Cormac Begadon and James E. Kelly (eds) pp. 175-177

Thomas O’Connor

Book Review: Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900–1250 by Edel Bhreathnach pp. 177-179

Seán Ó Hoireabhárd

Book Review: Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon pp. 179-181

Marnie Hay

Book Review: Reforming Galway: Civic society, Religious Change and St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church, 1550–1750 by Gráinne McPolin and Louise Ryan pp. 181-183

Jane Ohlmeyer

Book Review: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism by Peter Gray pp. 183-185

Jay R. Roszman

Book Review: A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985 by Miriam Nyhan Grey (ed.) pp. 185-187

Graham Brownlow

Book Review: The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations and Commodities by Charles C. Ludington (ed.) pp. 187-189

David Dickson

Book Review: Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690–c.1820 by Andrew Mackillop pp. 189-191

James Kelly

Book Review: Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History by Gráinne McPolin, Louise Ryan, and Neha Doshi pp. 191-193

Megan McAuley

Book Review: Caricature and the Irish: Satirical Prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780–1830 by Nicholas Robinson pp. 193-195

Benjamin Casey

Book Review: Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History 1850–1921 by Sarah Roddy pp. 195-196

S.J. Connolly

Book Review: Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845 by Jay R. Roszman pp. 196-198

Sean Farrell

Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2024 pp. 199-210

Benjamin Casey

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Secretary's Report to the Annual General Meeting, Held at Queen's University Belfast – 30 November 2024 pp. 211-213

Ciarán McCabe

Volume 51, issue 1, 2024

The Journal at Fifty pp. 3-8

David Dickson

Irish Economic and Social History, 1974–2023: Publication Trends pp. 9-17

Graham Brownlow, Catherine Cox and Eoin McLaughlin

Irish Social History: Personal Reflections on the Present and Future pp. 18-24

Deirdre Foley

Looking Ahead - The Future of Economic History pp. 25-31

à ine Doran

The Development of Mutual Aid Tontines in Nineteenth-Century Ireland pp. 32-47

Andrew McDiarmid

A Firm Level Database of Irish Creameries, 1897–1921 pp. 48-74

Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli and Christian Vedel

The Scalpel and the Ledger: Finance, Medicine and the Making of a Professional Life in Ireland, India and Britain, 1888–1921 pp. 75-95

Kieran Fitzpatrick and Daniel Cassidy

‘At the Right Hand of God was Their Soul’: An t-Óglách, the National Army, and Hegemonic Masculinity During the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923 pp. 96-112

Sophia Traxler

Recapturing the Bugsy Malones pp. 113-130

Ciara Molloy

Importing Industry: The Evolution of Irish Industrial Policy and the Growth of Foreign Ownership After Independence pp. 131-139

Seán Kenny

Book Review: Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: Novelty, Experiment and Widening Horizons by Toby Barnard and Alison FitzGerald (eds) pp. 140-142

D.W. Hayton

Book Review: Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–64 by Lynsey Black pp. 142-145

Jennifer Redmond

Book Review: A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–1807 Hakluyt Society, series iii, no. 34 by Angela Byrne (Ed.) pp. 145-147

Barnard Toby

Book Review: Cork/Corcaigh: Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 31 by H.B. Clarke & Maire Ni Laoi pp. 147-149

David Dickson

Book Review: Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450–1660: The Ormond Family, Power and Politics by Damien Duffy pp. 150-152

Frances Nolan

Book Review: Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick pp. 152-153

Brian Griffin

Book Review: Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast by Sean Farrell pp. 153-155

James Frazer

Book Review: Edmund Sexten Pery: The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteenth-Century Ireland by David A. Fleming pp. 155-157

Liam Chambers

Book Review: Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara by Vona GroarkeMissing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills pp. 158-161

Juliana Adelman

Book Review: The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720–80 by Melanie HayesSpectral Mansions: The Making of a Dublin Tenement, 1800–1914 by Timothy Murtagh pp. 161-164

Patrick Walsh

Book Review: The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 by Bríd McGrath pp. 165-166

Brendan Scott

Book Review: The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine by Cian T. McMahon pp. 166-168

Sarah Roddy

Book Review: Poetics and Polemics: Reading Seventeenth-Century Irish Political Verse by Michelle O Riordan pp. 168-169

Eamon Darcy

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2023 pp. 170-182

Thomas McGrath

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Secretary's Report to the Annual General Meeting 18 November 2023 pp. 183-186

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Volume 50, issue 1, 2023

Extending the English Pale: Berminghams’ Country, and the Rise of Sir William Bermingham, Baron of Carbury (c.1485–1548) pp. 3-20

Steven G. Ellis

The Night and Life on the Streets: Disorder in an Irish Town in the 1820s and 1830s pp. 21-39

Marc Caball

Without a Friend? Burial of the Destitute Poor in Cork, 1830–1900 pp. 40-56

Aoife Bhreatnach

Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of the Irish Economics Profession's Independent Voice pp. 57-73

Joseph K. Fitzgerald and Brendan K. O’Rourke

‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921 pp. 74-92

Colum Kenny

‘Arán an Lae Amáireach’: Flour Extraction and Fortification in Emergency Ireland, 1939–1948 pp. 93-111

Kelly Adamson

‘The Impetus for Change’: Legislating for Equal Pay and Employment Equality in the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s1 pp. 112-132

Suzanne Jobling

Book Review: Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast Since 1780 by Dominic Bryan and S.J. Connolly with John Nagle pp. 133-134

Tim Murtagh

Book Review: On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World by Sean Connolly pp. 135-136

Thomas O’Connor

Book Review: Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley pp. 137-138

Brian Griffin

Book Review: Ireland’s English Pale, 1470–1550: The Making of a Tudor Region by Steven G. Ellis pp. 138-140

David Heffernan

Book Review: Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism, and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Aidan Enright pp. 140-143

R. V. Comerford

Book Review: Politics and Political Culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660–1800: Essays in Honour of Jacqueline R. Hill by Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly and Mary Ann Lyons (eds) pp. 143-144

S.J. Connolly

Book Review: Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law by Stephen Hewer pp. 145-146

Bernadette Cunningham

Book Review: The Death Census of Black ‘47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine by Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen and Brian Gurrin pp. 147-148

Jay R. Roszman

Book Review: The Jesuit Mission in Early Modern Ireland 1560–1760 by Mary Ann Lyons and Brian Mac Cuarta SJ (eds) pp. 149-151

Thomas O’Connor

Book Review: The First National Museum’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Sherra Murphy pp. 151-152

Juliana Adelman

Book Review: Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776–1820 by Timothy Murtagh pp. 153-154

Kenneth L. Dawson

Book Review: The Jacobite Duchess: Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649–1731 by Frances Nolan pp. 155-156

Liam Chambers

Book Review: Developing Rural Ireland: A History of the Irish Agricultural Advisory Services by Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh pp. 156-158

Patrick Doyle

Book Review: Irish Maritime Trade in the Restoration Era: The Letterbook of William Hovell, 1683–1687 by James O’Shea (ed.) pp. 159-160

Toby Barnard

Book Review: The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics and Place by Ann-Maria Walsh pp. 160-162

Frances Nolan

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2022 pp. 163-175

Thomas McGrath

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Secretary's Report to the Annual General Meeting, October 29, 2022 pp. 176-177

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