Eoin

Abstract: This collection of essays covers every aspect of Ireland's environment: geography; geology; nature in Irish thought and expression; arboriculture; religion in nature; cartography; history of botany; environmentalism and exploitation; mammalogy; entomology; ornithology; evolution theory; history of shooting, fishing, hunting, coursing and hawking; Victorian naturalists, wildlife in literature; the Clare Island survey; icthyology; Irish figures in biological and geological expeditions; the literature of natural history; and popular science The book contains contributions by naturalists and science writers, including John Feehan, Sean Lysaght, Christopher Moriarty, Patrick Wyse Jackson, David Cabot, Brendan McWilliams, Eoin Neeson, Donal Synnott and Paul Hackney

Abstract: 1. Joy to my Youth 2. The Best Man in Ulster 3. War to the Death in Monaghan 4. The Coming Man 5. The Flower of the Young Manhood of Ireland 6. Preaching the Gospel of National Virility 7. Red Terror 8. The Irish Mussolini 9. Hoch O'Duffy! 10. The Third Greatest Man in Europe 11. Ireland's Quisling Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index

Abstract: In 1921, Michael Collins argued that the Anglo-Irish treaty offered nationalists the freedom to achieve freedom. In 1926, Kevin O'Higgins proposed to crown the British monarch king of a reunited Ireland. In 1933, Eoin O'Duffy advocated a corporatist state on the Fascist Italian model, within a republican settlement. This study explains how such contrasting political views were reconciled within an evolving pro-Treaty position. It argues that in order to understand the development of the new and the establishment of a viable democracy it must first be recognized that a dedicated counter-revolution underpinned the post-revolutionary settlement. The book opens with a comprehensive re-evaluation of the treaty negotiations. It argues that there existed elements of anti-democratic culture on both sides of the treaty divide, not least Collins himself. It emphasizes the central role of Kevin O'Higgins in using the spoils system of the new state to undermine his opponents within the regime. Based on ten years' research in archives in Ireland, Britain, France and the USA, this is a reappraisal of the Irish Free State.

Abstract: Contents: The laws in Ireland, 1689-1850: a brief introduction, Michael Brown and SeA!n Patrick Donlan Local courts in later 17th- and 18th-century Ireland, T.C. Barnard The Privy Council of Ireland and the making of Irish law, 1692-1800, James Kelly 18th-century Ireland's legislative deficit, W.N. Osborough The limits of English influence on the Irish criminal law and the boundaries of discretion in the 18th-century Irish criminal justice system, Neal Garnham English and Irish jury laws: a growing divergence 1825-1833, Niamh Howlin 'Let the law take its course': punishment and the exercise of the prerogative of mercy in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, Richard McMahon The Ouzel Galley Society in the 18th century: arbitration body or drinking club?, Lisa Marie Griffith Dublin Corporation and the levying of tolls and customs, c.1720-c.1820, Jacqueline Hill Regulating the market: Parliament, corn and bread in 18th-century Ireland, Eoin Magennis Ireland's urban houghers: moral economy and popular protest in the late 18th century, Martyn J. Powell 'Regular obedience to the laws': Arthur Browne's prelude to union, SeA!n Patrick Donlan Daniel O'Connell and the Magee trials, 1813, Patrick M. Geoghegan Farmer and fool: Henry Brooke and the late Irish Enlightenment, Michael Brown The legal system in Ireland and the Irish language 1700-c.1843, Lesa Ni Mhunghaile A court 'for the determination of causes civil and maritime only': Article 8 of the Act of Union 1800 and the Court of Admiralty in Ireland, Kevin Costello Index.