Discover more about your ancestral homeland through this collection of Irish histories and reference guides.
Discover more about your ancestral homeland through this collection of Irish histories and reference guides.
Publications about the social history of your ancestor’s home are useful in creating a full narrative about your ancestor’s life and how your ancestor lived. The various titles provide images of iconic landmarks in Ireland as well as descriptions of townlands and local people. You may not gain a large amount of genealogical details from these book. However, search for your surname and you may discover great achievements or histories about those who held the same name.
Here is a sample of some of the publications you will discover in this collection:
Published by Thomas J Coleman & Co. in Dublin, this title includes 53 etchings of people and places throughout Ireland including O’Connell Bridge, Dublin; Wicklow Mountains; Blarney Castle, Cork; and Giant’s Causeway, Antrim.
Enjoy a tour through Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Cork, and more with this descriptive text and numerous illustrations. The illustrations were created by John Leech who previously illustrated Punch magazine. A Little Tour of Ireland was first published in 1859 under the pseudonym an Oxonian, which means a former member of Oxford University. The author is, in fact, Samuel Reynolds Hole. During his journey through Ireland, Hole described his experience in Clifden, a coastal town in Galway, as:
‘We were on Irish ground; the stillness and the solitude so wildly broken, encourages all our superstitious fancies; and everything we had read or heard of Bogies, Banshees, Kelpies, and Co., came back to our astonied [sic] souls. Were we, really, to witness something supernatural at last, something, which, when we got home, should make the teeth of our neighbours chatter, and cause the hair to stank up on our relations’ heads? ‘
This was published in 1898 by Honourable John F Finerty of Chicago to commemorate the Rebellion of 1798. It is a collection of photographs of places, buildings, and people in Ireland. The photographs depict life in 19th century Ireland. The captions provide a short history of the town or landmark depicted in the image.
In 1885, W E Wakeman published this guide to Ireland. Wakeman also wrote Three Days on the Shannon, Handbook of Irish Antiquities, and Guide to Lough Erne. The introduction provides a history beginning with ancient Ireland and the time of Tuatha-De-Danaan. The first 80 pages examines sites in Dublin. Wakeman also explores places further from Dublin including Malahide, Dundalk, Rostrevor, Lough Corrib, Killarney, Kildare, and more.
Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation, published 1897
published 1906