Anna Parnell, sister of the great Irish leader Charles Stuart Parnell, was a major political force in her own right and a pioneer radical journalist and feminist. This critical edition of her political essays discusses her, her writings for Irish, British and American newspapers. In 1880, the Parnell sisters, Anna and Fanny, founded two branches of the Ladies Land League, one in New York and one in Dublin. While C.S.Parnell was confined to Kilmainham prison, his two sisters aimed to keep up the agitation for Irish Home Rule as well as but pressure on the British government to permit it.

This is the first serious historical study of birdkeeping in America from colonial times to the present. It documents and discusses the various forms of commercial birdkeeping and the opportunities it offered to women and some minorities. Research into state and national political activities of birdkeepers and their sometimes strained relations with each other (hobbyists vs professionals, preservation of environment vs. commercial exploitation) are discussed.

A three volume reference work describing the disciplines of 18th century Church history, geography and travel. Details from Wesley's diaries, journals, correspondence, and prose works are used to compile a calendar covering 3 November 1721 to 2 March 1791. Wesley's visits to England Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Georgia, South Carolina, Holland and Germany are tracked including where possible the specific activities in which the founder and leader of Methodism was engaged. Also included is an exhaustive list of primary and secondary sources as well as an index of persons and titles.

This hitherto unpublished diary, edited and with notes by Dr. Rogal, provides a valuable research tool for understanding the place of religion in immediate post Revolutionary America specifically amongst the American Methodist Episcopal Church members Bishop Whatcoat had as his flock.

Chapters: 1. Ireland and the wider world in the 12th century. 2. The coming of The Normans. 3. The establishment and consolidation of the lordship of Ireland. 4. The response of the native Irish. 5. Internal tensions within the lordship. 6. The Bruce Invasion. 7. The mid fourteenth century: factionalism, decline, and the "Black Death". 8. Attempts at recovery: Royal intervention. 9. Fifteenth century Ireland. 10. The rise and fall of the Kildare Geraldine supremacy. 11. The Reformation. 12. The renewal of Royal interest in Ireland. 13.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna(1790-1846) is remembered for her religious tracts and her commentaries on Industrial Britain, but her writings on Ireland of the 1820s to the 1840s have largely been neglected. Her Irish reflections cover a range of topics from agrarian violence, landlordism, Daniel O' Connell, Catholic Emancipation, tithes, restrictions on the Church of Ireland in the 1830s, to national schools, the Irish Poor Law, Father Matthew, Repeal, the Orange Order, the Irish language, and, of course, the necessity of converting Irish Catholics.

This two-volume work is an edited version of O’Grady’s great achievements: “History of Ireland: The Heroic Period,” “History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries” and “A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical.” Professor McNamara has edited the works not only in order to provide the scholarly reader with insights into O’Grady’s subjects and methods but also to help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others).

This work is an historical discussion and new translation of one of the key works of medicine of the English renaissance. The only two available translations are between one and three and a half centuries old. Because so many errors have crept into translations of Harvey’s seminal work a new edition has been called for and a new translation as well. McMullen’s work on this topic has been called “Groundbreaking and excellent” by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Discussion of Italian philosophical, ethical and medical objections to the circulation theory (Padua).

This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 – Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 – Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 – Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 – Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 – Subsidy Act, 1641 – Proclamation of Phelim O’Neill &c., 24 Oct.

Professor McBroom argues that the events of the Holocaust do not require special, unique or extreme explanations. Rather the behavior of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders can be understood and explained by established principles of social science. As such, events like those of the Holocaust are natural phenomena and have not only occurred in instances other than the “final solution,’ but can happen any time that certain relatively few conditions are present.