Raymond Gillespie on the ‘Early Modern, Gaelic and Plantation town’

Raymond Gillespie discusses the different types of towns emerging in the early modern period

Colm Lennon on the ‘town in the eighteenth century’

Colm Lennon discusses the eighteenth-century town in the age of improvement

Jacinta Prunty on the ‘town in the nineteenth century’

Jacinta Prunty discusses the different types of towns and their changing functions in the nineteenth century

Map view of Armagh city and the new Blackwater fort, 1602 by Richard Bartlett (National Library of Ireland MS 2656). It appears as Map 4 in IHTA no. 18 Armagh by Catherine McCullough and W.H. Crawford (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2007)

Anngret Simms on the 'Monastic Town'

Anngret Simms, author of IHTA no. 4 Kells (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1990) looks at the role of the Monastic town in Irish urban history.