Launch of The Cambridge History of Ireland Four Volume Set

The Cambridge History of Ireland launch and seminar took place on 30 April 2018 in Dublin Castle and the Long Room Hub at TCD.  President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins attended the occasion and made a special address.

The School of History and Geography is happy to join in the welcome the publication on 26 April of The Cambridge History of Ireland in four volumes.

Written by a team of more than 100 historians from across the world, it is pleasing to note the contribution of two members of the School - Daithí Ó Corráin and James Kelly – to the realisation of a work that it, in the words of Cambridge University press, is ‘the most comprehensive and authoritative history of Ireland yet attempted’. 

Professor James Kelly, Head of the School, is the editor of Volume 3: Ireland, 1730–1880.  The volume engages with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and as well a fresh and modern political narrative, it presents up the moment accounts of the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture and the Irish abroad, among a host of subjects in 28 chapters.

In addition to writing the introduction to the volume (‘Introduction: Interpreting Late Early Modern Ireland’), Professor Kelly has contributed two chapters: ‘The politics of Protestant ascendancy, 1730-1790’, pp 48-73; and ‘Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’, pp 489-516.

Dr Daithí Ó Corráin is the author of the chapter: ‘Catholicism in Ireland 1880–2016: rise, ascendancy and retreat’, in Volume 4: Ireland, 1880 to the Present (volume editor Thomas Bartlett), pp 726-64.

Further information on the volumes can be found here.