Item category 1: Local Studies

There are numerous traveller's accounts of Ireland from the 17th century onwards, a valuable resource for historians but not always easy to use. This guide offers a discursive introduction & annotations of over 200 accounts from 1635 to 1948.

The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution.

On 24 October 1922 an IRA column ambushed a National Army tender at Graney crossroads on the Castledermot to Baltinglass road. Three National Army soldiers were killed and five wounded, one mortally. The attack was the most lethal ambush of the revolutionary period in Co. Kildare. On the 100th an...

This publication presents the excavations at Rathgall, Rath East, Co. Wicklow, conducted by Barry Raftery, retired Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin. Raftery published aspects of the site, primarily in the 1970s, and was working on a comprehensive account but passed awa...

A blended factory study and oral history of Industry Yarns Ltd. Little Bray. It examines the working lives of those employed, with testimony from 15 former employees both management and worker.

A synopsis of the book states: ‘The Irish Forestry Society was founded in 1902 by Dr Robert T Cooper, a successful Irish physician based in London, who was greatly concerned by the level of deforestation in Ireland during the late 19th and early 29th centuries. He was soon joined by others who sh...