Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder, 1844 is published by Four Courts Press in 2025. Order here.
“Byrne has truly maxed out on the historian’s toolkit … She has unearthed the midden and heroically pieced together what evidence is available to reconstruct an event which proves at a micro level yet again, the powerlessness of the dispossessed and the uneducated in a colonised country.” – Berni Dwan
The book explores the shocking murder of fourteen-year-old Mary Doherty in rural Donegal and reflects on memory, remembrance and whose stories get to be told.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32 Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaidh is published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2025. Order here.
“an important contribution …. authoritative and informative” – Pauric Travers
This historical atlas charts the development of Ballyshannon from its early origins through detailed research in map and documentary sources. It includes high-quality reproductions of historic maps and images.
Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia is published by Lilliput Press in 2024. Order here.
“A kaleidoscope of life stories told by a fine historian … an absorbing read” – Breandán Mac Suibhne
The book explores two centuries of Irish connections with Russia in times of war, revolution and empire.
All Strangers Here: 100 Years of Writing from the Irish Foreign Service, edited by Angela Byrne, Ragnar Deeney Almqvist and Helena Nolan. Arlen House, 2021; reprinted 2022.
The book was recommended in the RTÉ History Show’s ‘books for Christmas’ 2021 and is available for purchase from many independent bookshops.
Read a review here, and watch back on the launch event here.
A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–1807, edited by Angela Byrne.
“This unusually illuminating account is greatly to be welcomed … a wonderfully fresh and vivid vista of southern Ireland early in the nineteenth century.” – Toby Barnard
Published by Routledge for The Hakluyt Society, 2018.
Available for purchase at most online bookstores.
Angela Byrne. Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Purchase in hardcover, softcover or ebook, or read a preview, here.
Edited books:
Irish Historic Towns Atlas: Dublin Suburbs No. 2: Rathmines, by Séamas Ó Maitiú (Royal Irish Academy, 2021).
Irish Historic Towns Atlas: Dublin Suburbs No. 1: Clontarf, by Colm Lennon (Royal Irish Academy, 2018).
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Angela Byrne. “Life Lines: Agency and Autobiography in Sarah Curran’s Poetry.” Women’s History Review, vol. 32, no. 1 (2023), pp. 126–141.
Angela Byrne. “Life after Emmet’s Death: Sarah Curran’s Literary and Friendship Circle.” Irish Studies Review, vol. 30, no. 2 (2022), pp. 119–135.
Angela Byrne. “The World of an Irish Merchant Migrant to the Canadas, 1830–43: The Memoir of David Blair Little.” Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 37 (2019), pp. 69–91.
Angela Byrne. “Anonymity, Irish Women’s Writing, and a Tale of Contested Authorship: Blue-Stocking Hall (1827) and Tales of my Time (1829).” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 119C (2019), pp. 259–81.
Angela Byrne. “‘My Little Readers’: Catharine Parr Traill’s Natural Histories for Children.” Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 8, no. 1 (2015) [special issue] Ingenious Minds: British Women as Facilitators of Scientific Knowledge Exchange, 1810–1900, pp. 86–101.
Angela Byrne. “A Gentlemanly Tour on the Fringes of Europe: William Hartigan Barrington in Scandinavia and Russia, 1837.” Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 40 (2013), pp. 31–47.
Book chapters:
Angela Byrne. “The Scientific Traveller.” Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing, edited by Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs (Routledge, 2019), pp. 17–29.
Angela Byrne. “Imagining the Celtic North: Science and Romanticism on the Fringes of Britain.” Imagining the Supernatural North, edited by Eleanor Barraclough, Danielle Cudmore and Stefan Donecker (University of Alberta Press, 2016), pp. 131–47.
Angela Byrne. “Scientific Practice and the Scientific Self in Rupert’s Land, c.1770–1830: Fur Trade Networks of Knowledge Exchange.” Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire, edited by Diarmid A. Finnegan and Jonathan J. Wright (Ashgate, 2015), pp. 79–95.
Angela Byrne. “‘No Longer to be Gazed at as a Distant Glimmering Star’: Irish-Born British Diplomats’ Accounts of Russia, 1733–1767.” Intermédiaires Culturels / Cultural Intermediaries, edited by Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding and Ellen R. Welch (Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2015), pp. 57–82.
Angela Byrne. “Entertainment, Memorials and Societies.” Maps and Texts: Exploring the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, edited by Howard B. Clarke and Sarah Gearty (Royal Irish Academy, 2013), pp. 236–53.
Angela Byrne. “Les Voyageuses Irlandaises à Spa au 18e Siècle.” Spa, Carrefour de l’Europe des Lumières. Les Hôtes de la Cité Thermale au XVIIIe Siècle, edited by Daniel Droixhe with Muriel Collart (Hermann, 2013), pp. 67–87.
Angela Byrne. “Princess Dashkova and the Wilmot Sisters.” Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, edited by Bernadette Cunningham and Siobhán Fitzpatrick (Royal Irish Academy, 2009), pp. 248–55.
Other journal articles:
Angela Byrne. “John (Fiott) Lee’s Visits to Dublin, 1806 and 1807.” Dublin Historical Record, vol. 77 (2024), pp. 58–65.
Angela Byrne. “Kate McCarry, Letterkenny’s First Woman Urban District Councillor.” Donegal Annual, no. 71 (2020), pp. 27–31.
Angela Byrne. “Constructing the Global Irish Woman Traveller: Cynthia Longfield’s Scientific Researches in South America, 1921–27.” ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (2019), pp. 27–36.
Angela Byrne. “A Previously Unknown Traveller’s Account of Kilkenny: John Lee (né Fiott) Visits Dunmore Cave, September 1806.” Old Kilkenny Review: Journal of Kilkenny Archaeological Society, vol. 69 (2017), pp. 105–13.
Angela Byrne. “Student-Generated Podcasting for Learning and Assessment in Undergraduate History.” Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, vol. 8, no. 12 (2016).
Angela Byrne. “The European Travels of Dorothea Ladeveze Adlercron (neé Rothe), c.1827–54.” Old Kilkenny Review: Journal of Kilkenny Archaeological Society, vol. 65 (2013), pp. 81–93.
Angela Byrne. “Supplementing the Autobiography of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the Russian Diaries of Martha and Katherine Wilmot.” Irish Slavonic Studies, vol. 23 (2011), pp. 25–34.
Angela Byrne. “Irish Soldiers in Russia, 1690–1812: a Re-assessment.” The Irish Sword, vol. 28, no. 111 (2011), pp. 43–58.
Other publications:
Angela Byrne. ‘Cynthia Longfield: An Irish Insect Hunter in Latin America.’ Ireland and Brazil: A Cultural Dialogue, ed. Laura P.Z. Izarra and Mariana Bolfarine (Universidade de São Paulo), pp. 249–60.
Angela Byrne. ‘Families on the Grand Tour in the Nineteenth Century.’ Childhood and the Irish, edited by Salvador Ryan (Wordwell Books, 2025), pp. 39–42.
Angela Byrne. ‘The Impact of Migration on Ballyshannon.’ Áitreabh: GSIHS Newsletter, no. 27 (2023), pp. 9–13.
Angela Byrne. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries: Katherine Wilmot (1773–1824), Martha Wilmot (1775–1873), Eleanor Cavanagh (fl. 1803–8), Sarah Curran (1782–1808).
Angela Byrne. “A Mother’s Advice to her Pregnant Daughter, 1813.” Birth and the Irish: A Miscellany, edited by Salvador Ryan (Wordwell Books, 2021).
Angela Byrne. “From Russia (to Ireland) with Love.” History Today, 26 Mar. 2020.
Angela Byrne. “(Hi)stories Contained: The Earl Grey Orphans Scheme, 1848–50.” Correspondences: An Anthology to Call for an End to Direct Provision, edited by Stephen Rea and Jessica Traynor (2019), pp. 13–20.
Angela Byrne. Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography revised entry (2019): Anna Maria Chetwood (1774–1870).
Angela Byrne. “Lizzie and William’s Continental Honeymoon, 1859.” Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany, edited by Salvador Ryan (Wordwell Books, 2019), pp. 160–2.
Angela Byrne. “Sacrificed on ‘the Mountain of Final Death’: the Drumkeeragh Bog Body, 1781–5.” Death and the Irish: a Miscellany, edited by Salvador Ryan (Wordwell Books, 2016), pp. 105–7.
Angela Byrne. “Grieving through the Sublime: Dorothea Ladeveze Adlercron at Lake Garda, 1844.” Death and the Irish: a Miscellany, edited by Salvador Ryan (Wordwell Books, 2016), pp. 127–9.
Angela Byrne. “Dashing Waves and Dreadful Cliffs: John Lee’s Visit to the Blaskets, 1806.” History Ireland, vol. 24, no. 2, 2016, pp. 24–5.
Angela Byrne. “Oriental Riches and Shrunk Black Fingers: an Anglo-Irish Visit to a Russian Orthodox Monastery in 1806.” Treasures of Irish Christianity, Volume 3: To the Ends of the Earth, edited by Salvador Ryan (Veritas, 2015), pp. 96–9.
Angela Byrne. “‘Why Wouldn’t They Content Themselves to Dress like Christians?’: Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Late Eighteenth-Century Russia.” Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter, no. 37, 2009, pp. 14–18.