James Kelly

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Prof. James Kelly lectures on Irish History, focusing on the period between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, on America from the Civil War to the end of the twentieth century, on Irish historiography and on historical methods. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2003, and was a member to the Irish Manuscripts Commission from 1999 to 2020. He has served as editor of the journal, Analecta Hibernica, and joint editor of Studia Hibernica, and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.  He has published extensively on a variety of themes on late-early modern Irish History, with particular reference to the eighteenth century. 

Book

Year Publication
2018 James Kelly (2018) The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland, 1730-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017 James Kelly (2017) Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
2014 James Kelly (2014) A History of Sport in Ireland, 1600-1840. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
2011 James Kelly (2011) Writing Irish History today: Inaugural lecture. Dublin: St Patrick's College.
2009 James Kelly (2009) Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: Ultra-Protestant ideologue. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
2007 James Kelly (2007) Monitoring the constitution: Ponynings' Law and the making of law for Ireland, 1660-1800. Dublin: Four Courts Press, for the Irish Legal History Society.
2005 James Kelly (2005) The Liberty and Ormond Boys: faction fighting in eighteenth-century Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press Dublin.
2004 James Kelly (2004) Sir Edward Newenham, 1734-1814: defender of the Protestant constitution. Dublin: Four Courts Press Dublin.
1998 James Kelly (1998) Henry Flood: patriots and politics in eighteenth-century Ireland. USA, Dublin: University of Notre Dame Press Indiana, USA; Four Courts Press: Dublin.
1995 James Kelly (1995) 'That damned thing called honour': duelling in Ireland 1570-1860. Cork: Cork University Press.
1993 James Kelly (1993) Henry Grattan. Dundalk: Historical Association of Ireland: Dundalk.
1992 James Kelly (1992) Prelude to Union: Anglo-Irish politics in the 1780s. Cork: Cork University Press.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2024 James Kelly (2024) 'Foreword to Irish Food History: a Companion' In: Irish Food History: a Companion. Dublin : EUT+ Academic Press (digital); Royal Irish Academy.
2021 Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons and Salvador Ryan (2021) 'Volcanism, weather and harvest crises: linking climate, the environment and human experience in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: The Historian as Detective. Uncovering Irish Pasts: Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie. Ireland : Four Courts Press.
2021 James Kelly (2021) 'Hunger will break through a wall: food riots during the Famine' In: Great Irish Famine Project. Ireland : UCC. [Link]
2021 Kevin Costello and Niamh Howlin (eds) (2021) 'Repealing the Penal Laws, 1760-95' In: Law and Religion in Ireland 1700-1970. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
2019 Salvador Ryan (ed) (2019) 'Clandestine marriage in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Dublin' In: Marriage and the Irish: a miscellany. Dublin : Wordwell.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'The politics of Protestant ascendancy, 1730-1790' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland, 1730-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland, 1730-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'The politics of Protestant ascendancy, 1730-1790' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland, 1730-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland, 1730-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'Interpreting late early modern Ireland' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Irlend, 1730-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2016 James Kelly (2016) 'Ravaging houses of ill fame': popular riot and public sanction in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: D.W. Hayton (ed.) Ourselves alone? Religion, society and politics in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'The Medical Response to Ill-health in Eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds) Cultures of care in the Irish Medical History, 1750-1970. Basingstoke : Palgrave.
2015 James Kelly (2015) 'Punishing the Dead: Execution and the executed body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' In: R Ward (ed.) A global history of execution and the criminal corpse. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
2014 James Kelly with Mary Ann Lyons (2014) 'The proclamations in context, 1660-1820: introduction' In: The proclamations of Ireland, 1660-1820. Dublin : Irish Manuscripts Commission.
2014 James Kelly (2014) 'Patriot politics 1750-91' In: Alvin Jackson (ed.) Oxford companion to Irish History. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
2014 James Kelly (2014) 'The politics of the Protestant ascendancy in county Cavan, 1584-1840' In: Cavan: history and Society. Dublin : Geography Publications.
2013 James Kelly (2013) 'Suicide in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: James Kelly and Mary Ann Lyons (ed.) Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'Responding to infanticide in Ireland, 1680-1820' In: Elaine Farrell (ed.) She said she was in the family way: pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland. London : Institute of Historical Research.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'I was right glad to be rid of it: dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: M.H. Preston and M. Ó hOgartaigh Gender and medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'James Kelly and Ciaran Mac Murchaidh (eds) Irish Protestants and the Irish language in the eighteenth century' In: Irish and English: Essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600-1900. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'Print and the provision of medical knowledge in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Raymond Gillespie and R.F. Foster (eds) Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2011 James Kelly (2011) 'The Privy Council of Ireland and the making of Irish law, 1692-1800' In: Michael Brown and Sean Patrick Donlan (eds) Law and government in Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. United Kingdom : Aldershot.
2011 James Kelly (2011) 'Bleeding, vomiting and purging: ill health and the medical professions in late early modern Ireland' In: Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds) Cultures of Care: Essays in the history of Irish Medicine. United Kingdom : Palgrave.
2011 James Kelly (2011) 'The historiography of the Penal Laws' In: J. Bergin et al (ed) New perspectives on the Penal Laws. Dublin : Eighteenth Century Ireland Society.
2010 Fiona Clark and James Kelly (2010) 'Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ashgate : Aldershot.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'Charitable societies: their genesis and development 1720-1800' In: James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'The pastime of the elite: clubs and societies and the promotion of horse racing' In: James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'The politics of the Protestant ascendancy in county Longford, 1630-1840' In: Fergus O'Ferrall and Martin Morris (eds) Longford: history and Society. Dublin : Geography Publications.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'Introduction (with M.J. Powell)' In: James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'The Bar Club, 1787-93: a dining club case study' In: James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 James Kelly (2010) 'Elite political clubs, 1770-1800' In: James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2010 D.W. Hayton, James Kelly and John Bergin (2010) 'Sustaining a confessional state: the Irish parliament and Catholicism' In: The eighteenth-century composite state: representative institutions in Ireland and Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave.
2009 Kelly, J. (2009) '“Era of liberty”: The politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900. [Link] [DOI]
2009 James Kelly (2009) 'Defending the established order: Richard Woodward Bishop of Cloyne (1726-94)' In: James Kelly and Ivar McGrath (eds)Parliament and politics in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : UCD Press.
2008 James Kelly (2008) 'Eighteenth century historical sources in English' In: Bernadette Cunningham and Siobhan Fitzpatrick (eds) Treasures of the Library. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy.
2006 James Kelly (2006) 'The ascendancy and the Penal Laws' In: J.R. Bartlett (ed) 2000 years of Christianity. Dublin : Columba Press.
2006 James Kelly (2006) 'The making of law in eighteenth-century Ireland: the significance and import of Poynings Law' In: Norma Dawson (ed) Reflections on Law and History. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2005 James Kelly (2005) 'Political publishing, 1550-1700' In: Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield (eds) The Oxford History of the Irish Book, 1550-1800. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
2005 James Kelly (2005) 'The conversion experience: the case of James O'Farrell OP, 1785-7' In: Michael Brown, Ivor McGrath and Thomas Power (eds) Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'The failure of opposition' In: Jaems Kelly, Michael Brown and P M Geoghegan (eds) The Irish Act of Union, 1800: bicentennial essays. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'Transportation from Ireland to North America, 1703-1789' In: David Dickson and Cormac Ó Gráda (eds) Reconfiguring Ireland: essays on honour of L.M. Cullen. Dublin : Lilliput Press.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'We were all to have been massacred: the Protestant experience of Rebellion' In: Tom Bartlett et al. (ed) 1798: a bicentenary perspective. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'The historiography of the Act of Union' In: James Kelly, Michael Brown and P M Geoghegan (eds) The Irish Act of Union: 1800: bicentennial essays. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'A most inhuman and barbarous piece of villainy: an exploration of the crime of rape in eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Ian O'Donnell and Finbarr McAuley (eds) Criminal Justice History: themes and controversies from pre-independence Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2001 James Kelly (2001) 'Capital punishment in early eighteenth-century Ireland' In: Serge Soupe (ed) Crime et Chatiment dans les Isles Britanniques au dix-huitieme siecle. Moscow and Paris : Rubrica: Moscow and Paris.
2001 James Kelly (2001) 'Lord Charlemont's political career' In: Michael McCarthy (ed) Lord Charlemont and his circle. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2001 James Kelly (2001) 'The origins and background of the Act of Union' In: Daire Keogh and Kevin Whelan (eds) The Act of Union. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2001 James Kelly (2001) 'Monitoring the constitution: the operation of Poynings' Law in the 1760s' In: D.W. Hayton (ed) The Irish parliament in the eighteenth century: the long apprenticeship. Edinburgh : University Press.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'Conservative Protestant thought in late eighteenth-century Ireland' In: S.J. Connolly (ed) Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'The emergence of political parading 1660-1800' In: T.G. Fraser (ed) The Irish parading tradition: following the drum. New York : Macmillan: Basingtoke and New York.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'The impact of the Penal Laws' In: James Kelly and Daire Keogh (eds) History of the Catholic diocese of Dublin. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'The historiography of the diocese of Dublin' In: James Kelly and Daire Keogh (eds) History of the Catholic diocese of Dublin. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
1999 James Kelly (1999) 'The emergence of scientific medical practice in Ireland 1660-1800' In: Greta Jones and Elizabeth Malcolm (eds) A history of Irish medicine. Cork : Cork University Press.
1998 James Kelly (1998) 'A wild Capuchin of Cork: Arthur O'Leary (1792-1802)' In: Gerard Moran (ed) Radical Irish priests. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
1998 James Kelly (1998) 'The limits of legislative independence' In: Mary Cullen (ed) 1798: 200 years of resonance: essays and contributions on the history and relevance of the United Irishmen and the 1798 Revolution. Dublin : Irish Reporter publications.
1997 James Kelly (1997) '1780 revisited: the politics of the repeal of the test Act' In: Kevin Herlihy (ed) The politics of Irish dissent 1160-1800. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
1996 James Kelly (1996) 'The politics of Protestant ascendancy: county Galway' In: Raymond Gillespie and Gerard Moran (eds) Galway: economy and society. Dublin : Geography Publications.
1993 James Kelly (1993) 'The formation of the modern Catholic Church in the diocese of Kilmore 1580-1880' In: Raymond Gillespie (ed) Cavan: essays on the history of an Irish county. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
1993 James Kelly (1993) 'Francis Wheatley: his Irish paintings 1779-83' In: Adele M Dalsimer (ed) Visualizing Ireland: national identity and the pictorial tradition. Boston and London : Faber and Faber.
1993 James Kelly (1993) 'Parliamentary reform in Irish politics 1760-90' In: Daivd Dickson, Daire Keogh and Kevin Whelan (eds) The United Irishmen. Dublin : Lilliput Press.
1991 James Kelly (1991) ''The Catholic church in the diocese of Ardagh 1650-1870' In: Raymond Gillespie and Gerard Moran (eds) Longford: Essays in county history. Dublin : Lilliput Press.
1990 James Kelly (1990) ''Napper Tandy: radical and republican'' In: James Kelly and U. Macgearailt (eds) Dublin and Dubliners: essays in the history and literature of Dublin City. Dublin : Helicon.
1989 James Kelly (1989) 'The genesis of Protestant ascendancy: the Rightboy disturbances of the 1780s and their impact upon Protestant opinion' In: Gerard O'Brien (ed) Parliament, politics and people: essays in eighteenth century Irish history. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2023 Kelly, J. (2023) 'Breakthrough: The First Phase of Catholic Relief in Britain and Ireland, 1766-1789' In: The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume III: Relief, Revolution, and Revival, 1746-1829. [Link] [DOI]
2023 Kelly, J. (2023) 'Political Publishing, 1700-1800' In: The Irish Book in English 1550-1800. [Link]
2023 (2023) '‘William Allen and the emergence of single-sheet graphic satire publication in Ireland, 1778-95’' In: Speculative minds in Georgian Ireland: novelty, experiment and widening horizons. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2023 (2023) '“Our civil rights and liberties”: the politics of Protestant liberty in the eighteenth century’' In: Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland – From Magna Carta to the present. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2023 Kelly, J. (2023) 'Political Publishing, 1550-1700' In: The Irish Book in English 1550-1800. [Link]
2022 (2022) '‘Dublin in an ‘era of improvement’: the public and the growth of the eighteenth-century city’' In: Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660–1800. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2018 Kelly, J. (2018) 'Sport and Recreation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume III: 1730-1880. [Link] [DOI]
2018 Kelly, J. (2018) 'The Politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-1790' In: The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume III: 1730-1880. [Link] [DOI]

Edited Book

Year Publication
2021 Tomás Ó Carragáin and James Kelly (Ed.). (2021) Climate and Society in Ireland: from prehistory to the present. Ireland: Royal Irish Academy,
2018 James Kelly (Ed.). (2018) The Cambridge History of Ireland volume 3: Ireland 1730-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2017 James Kelly and Susan Hegarty (Ed.). (2017) Schools and Schooling, 1650-2000: new perspectives on the History of Education - the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
2014 James Kelly with Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2014) The proclamations of Ireland, 1660-1820 5 vols. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission,
2001 James Kelly with Michael Brown and P.M. Geoghegan (Ed.). (2001) The Irish Act of Union, 1800: bicentennial essays. Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2014 James Kelly and Clyve Jones (Ed.). (2014) Parliament, politics and policy in Britain and Ireland. c.1680-1832. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell,
2013 James Kelly with Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2013) Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe. Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2016 James Kelly with Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Ed.). (2016) Food and Drink in Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy,
2009 James Kelly with Ivar McGrath and John McCafferty (Ed.). (2009) People, politics and power: essays on Irish history, 1660-1860. Dublin: UCD Press,
2002 James Kelly with Joe Dunne (Ed.). (2002) Childhood and its discontents: the first Seamus Heaney Lectures. Dublin: The Liffey Press,
2000 James Kelly with Daire Keogh (Ed.). (2000) History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
1990 James Kelly with Uaitear MacGearailt (Ed.). (1990) Dublin and Dubliners: essays in the history and literature of Dublin City. Dublin: Helicon,
2012 James Kelly & Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (Ed.). (2012) Irish and English: Essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600-1900. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
2011 James Kelly with Elizabeth FitzPatrick (Ed.). (2011) Domestic life in Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy,
2010 James Kelly with M.J. Powell (Ed.). (2010) Clubs and societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
2010 James Kelly with D.W. Hayton and John Bergin (Ed.). (2010) The eighteenth century composite state: representative institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan,
2010 James Kelly with Fiona Clark (Ed.). (2010) Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. United Kingdom: Ashgate,
2022 James Kelly, Raymond Gillespie, Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2022) Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union 1660-1800. Dublin: Four Courts Press,

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2015 Kelly, J. (2015) 'The consumption and sociable use of alcohol in eighteenth-century Ireland'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, 115 . [Link] [DOI]
2011 Kelly, James (2011) 'Sustaining a Confessional State: The Irish Parliament and Catholicism'. Eighteenth-Century Composite State: Representative Institutions In Ireland And Europe, 1689-1800, .
2009 Kelly, James (2009) 'The Decline of Duelling and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Ireland'. Politics, Society And The Middle Class In Modern Ireland, .
2021 James Kelly (2021) 'Royal Irish Academy Proceedings 121C'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, .
2021 James Kelly (2021) 'Appealing to the humane and charitable: the evolution of the Charity Sermon in Ireland, 1700-1860'. Archivium Hibernicum, 74 :258-311.
2021 James Kelly (2021) 'Andrew Caldwell's Observations on Architecture, 1768-9: Context and Text'. Eighteenth Century, :93-155.
2020 James Kelly (2020) 'Royal Irish Academy Proceedings 120C'. Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy, .
2020 James Kelly (2020) 'Analecta Hibernica, 50'. Analecta Hibernica, .
2020 Kelly, J. (2020) 'Chimney Sweeps, Climbing Boys and Child Employment in Ireland, 1775–1875'. Irish Economic and Social History, 47 . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Kelly, James (2020) 'Climate, weather and society in Ireland in the long eighteenth century: the experience of the later phases of the Little Ice Age'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE, 120 . [DOI]
2019 James Kelly (2019) 'Royal Irish Academy Proceedings 119C'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE, .
2019 James Kelly (2019) 'Analecta Hibernica, 50'. Analecta Hibernica, .
2019 Kelly, J. (2019) '‘An Unnatural Crime’: Infanticide in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland'. Irish Economic and Social History, 46 . [Link] [DOI]
2018 James Kelly (2018) ''Horrid' and 'infamous' practices: the kidnapping and stripping of children, c.1730-c.1840'. Irish Historical Studies, :265-292.
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 118C'. .
2018 James Kelly (2018) 'Analecta Hibernica, no 49'. Analecta Hibernica, .
2014 James Kelly (2014) 'A missing letter by Edmund Burke dated 7 November 1761'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, :142-148.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'Official list of radical activists and suspected activists involved in Emmet's Rebellion, 1803'. Analecta Hibernica, 43 :129-200.
2004 James Kelly (2004) 'Select documents: the members of parliament for Ireland, 1806: two lists of parliamentary interests'. Irish Historical Studies, 34 :198-229.
2004 James Kelly (2004) 'The operation of the Censorship of Publications Board: the notebooks of C.J. O'Reilly, 1951-55'. Analecta Hibernica, 38 :223-369.
2004 James Kelly (2004) 'Review of the House of Commons, 1774'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, :163-210.
2001 James Kelly (2001) 'Henry Flood's will'. Studia Hibernica, 31 :37-52.
1998 James Kelly with Cal Hyland (1998) 'Richard Twiss's Tour of Ireland - the missing pages'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, :53-64.
1991 James Kelly (1991) 'A visitor to County Kildare in 1782'. County Kildare Archaeological Society, (18).
1989 James Kelly (1989) 'The Whiteboys in 1762: a contemporary account'. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, :19-26.
1989 James Kelly (1989) 'A secret return of the Volunteers of Ireland in 1784'. Irish Historical Studies, 26 :268-292.
1987 James Kelly (1987) 'A tour in the south of Ireland in 1782'. North Munster Antiquarian Journal, (29):49-67.
2012 James Kelly (2012) 'Coping with crisis; the response to the famine of 1740-41'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 27 :99-122.
2011 James Kelly (2011) 'Disappointing the boundless ambitions of France: Irish Protestants and the fear of invasion, 1661-1815'. Studia Hibernica, 37 :27-105.
2009 James Kelly (2009) 'Drinking the waters: balneotherapeutic medicine in Ireland, 1660-1850'. Studia Hibernica, 35 :99-146.
2008 James Kelly (2008) 'Regulating print: the state and the control of print in eighteenth-century Ireland'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 23 :141-173.
2008 James Kelly (2008) 'Health for sale: mountebanks, doctors, printers and the supply of medication in eighteenth-century Ireland'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, SECTION C, 108C :1-38.
2006 James Kelly (2006) 'In retrospect: Lord Charlemont and learning'. Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy, 106C :395-408.
2003 James Kelly (2003) 'The failure of idealism? Thomas Russell and Robert Emmet': essay in review'. Saothar, 28 :99-105.
2002 James Kelly (2002) 'The Irish representative system in the eighteenth century: review article'. Irish Historical Studies, 33 :233-245.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'Popular politics in Ireland and the Act of Union'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, :259-287.
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'The politics of Volunteering, 1778-1793'. Irish Sword, 22 no 88 .
2000 James Kelly (2000) 'Recording the Irish parliament: The Parliamentary Register'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 15 :158-171.
1995 James Kelly (1995) 'A most inhuman and barbarous piece of villainy'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 10 :78-107.
1994 James Kelly (1994) 'The Glorious and immortal memory: commemoration and Protestant identity in Ireland 1660-1800'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, SECTION C, (94):25-52.
1994 James Kelly (1994) 'The abduction of women of fortune in eighteenth-century Ireland'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 9 :7-43.
1992 James Kelly (1992) ''Harvests and hardship: famine and scarcity in Ireland in the late 1720s''. Studia Hibernica, 26 :65-105.
1992 James Kelly (1992) 'Infanticide in eighteenth century Ireland'. IRISH ECONOMIC AND AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 18 :5-26.
1991 James Kelly (1991) ''Jonathan Swift and Irish economic crisis in the 1720s''. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 6 :7-36.
1990 James Kelly (1990) ''The Irish trade dispute with Portugal, 1781-86''. Studia Hibernica, 25 :7-48.
1990 James Kelly (1990) ''Eighteenth-Century ascendancy: a commentary''. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 5 :173-187.
1989 James Kelly (1989) ''The Anglo-French Commercial treaty of 1786: the Irish dimension''. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 4 :93-112.
1988 James Kelly (1988) ''Inter-denominational relations and religious toleration in late eighteenth century Ireland''. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 3 :39-68.
1988 James Kelly (1988) ''The parliamentary reform movement of the 1780s and the Catholic question''. Archivium Hibernicum, 44 :95-117.
1985 James Kelly (1985) ''William Burton Conyngham and the North West fishery of the eighteenth century''. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 115 :64-85.
1984 James Kelly (1984) ''The resumption of emigration from Ireland after the American War of Independence'. Studia Hibernica, 24 :61-88.
2015 Kelly, James (2015) 'The consumption and sociable use of alcohol in eighteenth-century Ireland'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE, 115 . [DOI]
2014 Kelly, James (2014) 'Mathew Carey's Irish Apprenticeship: Editing the Volunteers Journal, 1783-84'. Eire-Ireland, 49 (3-4).
2014 Kelly, James (2014) 'The Private Bill Legislation of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800'. Parliamentary History, 33 (1). [DOI]
2008 Kelly, James (2008) 'Health for sale: mountebanks, doctors, printers and the supply of medication in eighteenth-century Ireland'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE, 108 . [DOI]
2004 Kelly, J (2004) 'Select documents: The members of parliament for Ireland, 1806: two lists of 'parliamentary interests''. Irish Historical Studies, 34 (134).
1992 KELLY, J (1992) 'SCARCITY AND POOR RELIEF IN 18TH-CENTURY IRELAND - THE SUBSISTENCE CRISIS OF 1782-1784'. Irish Historical Studies, 28 :38-62.
1988 KELLY, J (1988) 'RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH-OF-IRELAND AND THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN LATE 18TH-CENTURY IRELAND'. Eire-Ireland; a journal of Irish studies, 23 :38-56.
1987 KELLY, J (1987) 'THE ORIGINS OF THE ACT OF UNION - AN EXAMINATION OF UNIONIST OPINION IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1650-1800'. Irish Historical Studies, 25 :236-263.
2024 (2024) '‘William Paulet Carey and Irish caricature, 1780-92’'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 39 :73-104.
2024 Kelly, J. (2024) 'Corporal punishment and child abuse in Ireland, 1700–1870'. Studia Hibernica, 50 . [Link] [DOI]
2024 James Kelly (2024) 'Studia Hibernica at 50: looking back'. Studia Hibernica, 50 :3-15.
2020 Kelly, James (2020) 'Chimney Sweeps, Climbing Boys and Child Employment in Ireland, 1775-1875'. Irish Economic and Social History, 47 (1). [DOI]
2019 Kelly, James (2019) ''An Unnatural Crime': Infanticide in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland'. Irish Economic and Social History, 46 (1). [DOI]

Other Journal

Year Publication
2014 James Kelly (2014) 'Writing local history: twenty years of Maynooth Studies in Local History' .
2020 James Kelly (2020) '‘Climate, weather and society in Ireland in the long eighteenth century: the experience of later phases of the Little Ice Age’' :1-52.
2020 James Kelly (2020) 'Four Courts Press at 50' :6-7.
2019 James Kelly (2019) '‘“I kept my design a profound secret”: the nature and impact of the educational provisions of the Penal Laws’' :346-373.
2018 James Kelly (2018) ''Report to the Minister'' :v-xix.
2018 James Kelly (2018) '‘Horrid’ and ‘infamous’ practices: the kidnapping and stripping of children, c.1730-c.1840' :265-292.
2018 James Kelly (2018) '‘Horrid’ and ‘infamous’ practices: the kidnapping and stripping of children, c.1730-c.1840' :265-292.
2018 James Kelly (2018) ''Editorial: Open Access'' :vii-ix.
2018 James Kelly (2018) '‘Representations of the Revenue Commissioners with respect to a ‘New Custom House’ in Dublin, 1771-1781' :136-160.

Book Review

Year Publication
1987 KELLY, J (1987) THE PURSUIT OF THE HEIRESS - ARISTOCRATIC MARRIAGE IN IRELAND, 1750-1820 - MALCOMSON,APW. DUBLIN: BREV
1987 KELLY, J (1987) GRENVILLE,LORD, 1759-1834 - JUPP,P. DUBLIN: BREV
1984 KELLY, J (1984) SHANNON LETTERS TO HIS SON - A CALENDAR OF THE LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE 2ND SHANNON,EARL TO HIS SON, BOYLE, 1790-1802 - HEWITT,E, EDITOR. DUBLIN: BREV

Editorial

Year Publication
2011 Hayton, D. W.; Kelly, James (2011) The Irish Parliament in European Context: A Representative Institution in a Composite State Introduction. ED

Electronic Source

Year Publication
2014 James Kelly (2014) Patriot politics 1750-91. ELES

Book Review

Year Publication
2022 (2022) ‘Revolutionary America and Ireland refracted through a comparative lens’. [Link]

Other Publication

Year Publication
2014 Kelly, J (2014) The life and significance of Charles Lucas (1713-1771). [DOI]
2014 Kelly, James (2014) A VERY INDEPENDENT COUNTY: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND POLITICS IN COUNTY ARMAGH, 1750-1800.
2014 Kelly, James (2014) THE VESTRY RECORDS OF THE PARISH OF ST AUDOEN, DUBLIN, 1636-1702.
2011 Kelly, James (2011) The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641.
2009 Kelly, James (2009) The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850.
2009 Kelly, James (2009) Loyalism in Ireland 1789-1829.
2008 Kelly, James (2008) Dublin 1745-1922: Hospitals, spectacle and vice.
2007 Kelly, James (2007) The origins of sectarianism in early modern Ireland.
2007 Kelly, James (2007) Old world colony: cork and Munster.
2006 Kelly, J (2006) Grattan's failure: Parliamentary opposition and the people in Ireland, 1779-1800.
2006 Kelly, James (2006) The religious condition of Ireland, 1770-1850.
2006 Kelly, James (2006) The duel in early modern England: civility, politeness and honour.
2003 Kelly, J (2003) Political thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, patriotism, and radicalism.
2000 Kelly, J (2000) Protestantism and national identity: Britain and Ireland, c.1650-c.1850.
1999 Kelly, J (1999) An ascendancy army: The Irish Yeomanry, 1796-1834.
1998 Kelly, J (1998) John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant reaction and English authority in late eighteenth-century Ireland.
1998 Kelly, J (1998) 'The king's business': Letters on the administration of Ireland, 1740-1761. From the papers of Sir Robert Wilmot.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) Day Place, County Kerry: 'The Most Respectable Locality on Tralee'.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) Marsden Haddock and the Androides: Entertainment, Late Georgian Cork and the Wider World.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) The Mansfields of Co. Kildare: A France-Irish Catholic Elite Family and Their Networks, 1870-1915.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) Portmagee, County Kerry: The Origins of an Atlantic Smuggling Village.
2024 Kelly, James (2024) Poverty in Pre-famine Westmeath: The Findings of the Poor Commission of 1833.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) Nathaniel Colgan, 1851-1919: the Life, Times and Genealogy of an Enigmatic Dubliner.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) Nursing and Midwifery in the Poor-Law Unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882-1922.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) 'Modest and Civil People': Religion and Society in Medieval Galway.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) Maynooth Studies in Local History.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown and the Social Networking of Power.
2023 Kelly, James (2023) Early Modern Duhallow, c. 1534-1641: the Crisis. Decline and Fall of an Irish Lordship.
2023 James Kelly (2023) ‘Response’. Dublin:
2020 Kelly, James (2020) The Jesuit Irish Mission: A Calendar of Correspondence, 1566-1752. [DOI]
2019 Kelly, James (2019) The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland.
2018 Kelly, J. (2018) Introduction: Interpreting Late Early Modern Ireland. [Link] [DOI]
2018 Kelly, J. (2018) 'Horrid' and 'infamous' practices: The kidnapping and stripping of children, c.1730-c.1840. [Link] [DOI]
2017 Kelly, James (2017) The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England.
2017 Kelly, James (2017) The Boulter Letters.
2017 Kelly, James (2017) Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics.
2015 Kelly, J. (2015) The life and significance of Charles Lucas (1713-1771). [DOI]
2014 Kelly, J. (2014) Mathew Carey's Irish apprenticeship: Editing the volunteers journal, 1783-84. [Link] [DOI]
2010 Hayton, D.W.; Kelly, J. (2010) Introduction: The Irish parliament in European context: A representative institution in a composite state. [Link] [DOI]
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