THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, DUBLIN

By Mark B. Roe The records of the British and old Irish parliaments contain detailed evidence of one of Ireland’s earliest experiments in institutional child care: the Foundling Hospital. Annual admission figures are available for 82 out of the 100 years during which the hospital accepted admissions. From these we can calculate that approximately 127,000 … Read more

IRELAND’S SEA FISHERIES, 1400–1600: ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

PATRICK W. HAYES Boydell and Brewer £90 ISBN 9781783277063 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environmental history of pre-modern Ireland. This very welcome study by Patrick Hayes adds to this growing body of research. The … Read more