Irish Economic and Social History

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Volume 49, issue 1, 2022

The Irish Receipt Roll of 1301–2: Data Science and Medieval Exchequer Practice pp. 3-29

Brendan Smith and Mike Jones

‘Not Christian, Civil or Human Creatures, But Heathen or Rather Savage and Brute Beasts’: Andrew Trollope and the ‘Reform’ of Ireland in the 1580s pp. 30-46

David Heffernan

Politics as Usual: Charles Edward Trevelyan and the Irish and Scottish Fisheries Before and During the Great Famine pp. 47-59

John Leazer

‘Oh, Oh Rodeo!!’: American Cowboys and Post-Independence Ireland1 pp. 60-79

Conor Heffernan

Reading and Print Cultures in Waterford, 1865–1939 pp. 80-97

David Toms

‘Responsible, effective and caring’: Gay Health Action, AIDS Activism and Sexual Health in the Republic of Ireland, 1985–1989 pp. 98-115

David Kilgannon

Ireland and the Marshall Plan: E.C.A.'s Manoeuvring to Promote Dollar Tourism pp. 116-135

Anne Groutel

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order During the Famine Years: From Reformation to Dolly's Brae by Daragh Curran pp. 136-137

Ciarán McCabe

Book Review: Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History by Conor Curran pp. 137-138

Paul Rouse

Book Review: Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism, 1850–1950 by Cara Delay pp. 139-140

Sarah Roddy

Book Review: A Tudor Viceroy: Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, 1560–1575, the Reluctant Lord Deputy by Deirdre Fennell pp. 141-142

David Heffernan

Book Review: Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex and the Colonisation of North-East Ulster, c. 1573–6 by David Heffernan pp. 142-144

Raymond Gillespie

Book Review: The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher pp. 144-146

Raymond Gillespie

Book Review: Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700–2000 by Claudia Kinmonth pp. 146-147

Alison FitzGerald

Book Review: Promoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Ireland: Ideology and the Rhetoric of Difference by Carla Ellen Lessing pp. 148-149

Bernadette Cunningham

Book Review: The Politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840–1900: From Reform to Expansion by James H. Murphy pp. 149-151

Alice Johnson

Book Review: An Irishman's Life on the Caribbean Island of St Vincent, 1787–90: The Letter Book of Attorney General Michael Keane by Mark S. Quintanilla (ed) pp. 151-153

David Fleming

Book Review: Society and Administration in Ulster's Plantation Towns by Brendan Scott (ed) pp. 153-155

Mary Ann Lyons

Book Review: Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540 by Peadar Slattery pp. 156-157

Brendan Scott

Book Review: Charles Abbot's Tour through Ireland and North Wales in 1792 by C. J. Woods (ed) pp. 157-159

Patrick Walsh

Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2021 pp. 160-167

Thomas McGrath

Economic and Social History Society of IrelandSecretary's report to the Annual General MeetingDecember 4, 2021 pp. 168-169

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Volume 48, issue 1, 2021

Anthropometric History: Revisiting What’s in it for Ireland pp. 3-26

Eoin McLaughlin, Christopher Colvin and Matthias Blum

J.S.Mill and the Irish Land Question: From Irish Economic History to Coherent Socialism and Irish Historicism pp. 27-46

Manolis Manioudis

Fashion or Function? The Use of Silver in Seventeenth-Century Irish Society pp. 47-69

Jessica Cunningham

Serving the ‘Divine Economy’: St Joseph’s Asylum for Aged and Virtuous Females, Dublin, 1836–1922 pp. 70-91

Olivia Frehill

Commodities and the Import Trade in Early Plantation Ulster pp. 92-107

Brendan Scott

On the Structure of Wealth-Holding in Pre-Famine Ireland pp. 108-134

Neil Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda

The State’s Attitude and Response to the Threat Posed by Tobacco Smuggling in Ireland 1780–1850 pp. 135-146

Seán M. Whitney

Book Review: Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster by Guy Beiner pp. 147-149

Andrew R. Holmes

Book Review: The Disparity of Sacrifice: Irish recruitment to the British Armed Forces 1914–1918 by Timothy Bowman, William Butler and Michael Wheatley pp. 149-151

Fionnuala Walsh

Book Review: Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750–1850 by Richard J. Butler pp. 151-153

Brian Griffin

Book Review: The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War 1594–1603 by Ruth A. Canning pp. 153-155

Brian Mac Cuarta Sj

Book Review: The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation by David Dickson pp. 155-157

Toby Barnard

Book Review: Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City Housing Estate in Belfast by Marianne Elliott pp. 157-159

C. J. Woods

Book Review: Ernest Blythe in Ulster: The Making of a Double Agent? by David Fitzpatrick pp. 159-160

Marie Coleman

Book Review: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild (eds.) pp. 160-163

Kerron Ó Luain

Book Review: Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild pp. 163-165

Niall Whelehan

Book Review: Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923 by Conor Morrissey pp. 165-167

Ian d’Alton

Book Review: Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860–1914 by Maeve O’Riordan pp. 167-169

Jennifer Redmond

Book Review: Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, Culture and Society by Katharine Simms pp. 169-170

Eamon Darcy

Book Review: Early Medieval Ireland, 431–1169 by Matthew Stout pp. 170-172

Michael Potterton

Book Review: Landholding in the New English Settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875 by Oliver Whelan pp. 173-175

Brian Griffin

Book Review: An Ulster Slave-owner in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Life and Letters of John Black by Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (ed.) pp. 175-177

Patrick Walsh

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2020 pp. 178-188

Thomas McGrath

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Secretary’s Report to the Annual General Meeting, December 18, 2020 pp. 189-189

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Volume 47, issue 1, 2020

Centuries of Irish Childhoods pp. 3-9

Marnie Hay

‘Kindred Without End’: Wet-Nursing, Fosterage and Emotion in Ireland, c. 1550–1720 pp. 10-35

Clodagh Tait

Chimney Sweeps, Climbing Boys and Child Employment in Ireland, 1775–1875 pp. 36-58

James Kelly

Catholic Convent Schools and the History of Irish Girlhood: Curriculum and Continuity 1780–1920 pp. 59-77

Mary Hatfield

‘The Child Condemned’: The Imprisonment of Children in Ireland, 1850–19081 pp. 78-96

Geraldine Curtin

‘Those little ones immersed in a sea of foreign influences’: Teaching Irish Language and Culture to Children in London in the Early 1900s pp. 97-111

Mary MacDiarmada

Justice and Uncertainty pp. 112-121

William Murphy

Book Review: Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and the Irish of the Four Obedient Shires pp. 122-124

Henry A. Jefferies

Book review: The Life and Career of Archbishop Richard Whately: Ireland, Religion and Reform, The Life and Times of Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin 1823–1852 pp. 124-128

Ciarán McCabe

Book review: Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives pp. 128-130

Bernadette Cunningham

Book review: Raising Dublin, Raising Ireland: A Friar’s Campaign. Father John Spratt, O. Carm. (1796–1871) pp. 131-132

Ciarán McCabe

Book review: Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland pp. 133-135

Alice Mauger

Book review: The Colonial World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork pp. 135-137

Eamon Darcy

Book review: The Irish Presbyterian Mind: Conservative Theology, Evangelical Experience, and Modern Criticism, 1830–1930 pp. 137-139

Daniel Ritchie

Book review: Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland pp. 139-141

Marnie Hay

Book review: Church and Settlement in Ireland pp. 141-144

Elizabeth Boyle

Book review: A New History of the Irish in Australia pp. 144-146

Sophie Cooper

Book review: The Archives of the Valuation of Ireland, 1830–65 pp. 146-148

William J. Roulston

Book review: The Jesuit Irish Mission: A Calendar of Correspondence, 1566–1752 pp. 148-150

James Kelly

Book review: The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand, 1807–1922 pp. 150-152

Regina Donlon

Book review: Researching Ulster Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600–1800 pp. 152-154

Eamon Darcy

Book review: Envoy Extraordinary: Professor Smiddy of Cork pp. 154-156

Graham Brownlow

Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2019 pp. 157-162

Deirdre Foley

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland: Secretary’s Report for the Year 2019 pp. 163-164

Rebecca Stuart