Byrne's Dictionary of Irish Local History

by Joseph Byrne

  Beames, Michael, ‘Cottiers and conacre in pre-famine Ireland’ in Journal of Peasant Studies, ii (1975).

  — Peasants and power: the Whiteboy movement and their control in pre-famine Ireland (Brighton, 1983).

  Beckett, J. C., Protestant dissent in Ireland, 1687–1780 (London, 1946).

  Begley, Donal F. (ed.), Irish genealogy: a record finder (Dublin, 1981).

  Belmore. Commission on manual and practical instruction in primary schools under the Board of National Education in Ireland: Final report of the commissioners, HC 1898 [C.8923] XLIV.

  Bergin, Osborn, ‘Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis’ in Gadelica, i (1912–13).

  Berry, H. F., ‘Proceedings in the matter of the custom called tolboll, 1308 and 1385; ‘St Thomas’ abbey v. some early Dublin brewers, &c.’ in RIA Proc., xxviii, C, no. 10 (1910).

  — (ed.), Register of wills and inventories of the diocese of Dublin 1457–1483 (Dublin, 1896–7).

  — (ed.), Statutes and ordinances and acts of the parliament of Ireland, King John to Henry V (Dublin, 1907).

  — (ed.), Statute rolls of the parliament of Ireland, first to the twelfth years of the reign of King Edward the fourth (Dublin, 1914).

  — (ed.), Statute rolls of the parliament of Ireland, reign of Henry the sixth (Dublin, 1910).

  Bessborough. Report of Her Majesty's commission of inquiry into the working of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, and the acts amending the same, HC 1881 [C2779] XVIII. I; Minutes of evidence, pt I, HC 1881 [C2779] XVIII. 73; Minutes of evidence, pt II, HC 1881 [C2779] XIX. I; Index to minutes of evidence and appendices, HC 1881 [C2779] XIX. 825.

  Best, R. I., Bergin, Osborn and O’Brien, M. A. (eds), The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Nua chongbala (5 vols, Dublin, 1954–67).

  Best, R. I. and McNeill, E. (eds), The annals of Innisfallen (Dublin, 1933).

  Bew, Paul, Land and the national question 1858–82 (Dublin, 1978).

  Binchy, D. A. (ed.), Críth Gablach (Dublin, 1941).

  Blackstock, Alan, An ascendancy army: the Irish yeomanry, 1796–1834 (Dublin, 1998).

  Bolster, E., ‘A landgable roll of Cork city’ in Collect. Hib., xiii (1970).

  Bolton, G. C., The passing of the Irish act of union: a study in parliamentary politics (Oxford, 1966).

  Bottigheimer, Karl S., English money and Irish land: the ‘adventurers’ in the Cromwellian settlement (London, 1975).

  Bourke, P. M. Austin, ‘Notes on some agricultural units of measurement in use in pre-famine Ireland’ in IHS, xiv, no. 55 (1964–5).

  Bowen, Desmond, Souperism: myth or reality (Cork, 1970).

  — Paul Cardinal Cullen and the shaping of modern Irish Catholicism (Dublin, 1983).

  — The Protestant crusade in Ireland, 1800–1870 (Dublin, 1978).

  Boyle, K., ‘Police in Ireland before the Union’ in Ir. Jurist, viii (1973).

  Bradshaw, Brendan, The dissolution of the religious orders in Ireland under Henry VIII (Cambridge, 1974).

  Brand, Paul, ‘The early history of the legal profession of the lordship of Ireland, 1250– 1350’ in Hogan, V. and Osborough, W. N. (eds), Brehons, serjeants and attorneys: studies in the history of the legal profession (Dublin, 1990).

  Brannon, Nick, ‘The built heritage and the local historian’ in Gillespie, Raymond and Hill, Myrtle (eds), Doing local history: pursuit and practice (Belfast, 1998).

  Brewer, John D., The Royal Irish Constabulary: an oral history (Belfast, 1990).

  Bright, Kevin, ‘Reflections on the RDS, 1731–2001’ in DHR, lvi, no. 1 (Spring, 2003).

  Broderick, David, An early toll-road – the Dublin–Dunleer turnpike, 1731–1855 (Dublin, 1996).

  Brook, E. St John (ed.), Register of the hospital of St John the Baptist without the New Gate, Dublin (Dublin, 1936).

  — (ed.), The Irish cartularies of Llanthony Prima and Llanthony Secunda (Dublin, 1955).

  Buckley, Anthony B. and Anderson, T. Kenneth, Brotherhoods in Ireland (Cultra, 1988).

  Buckley, K. L., ‘The Irish Land Commission as a source of historical evidence’ in IHS, viii, no. 29 (1952).

  Burke, Peter, The French historical revolution: the Annales school, 1929–89 (Cambridge, 1990).

  Caldicott, C. E. J., Gough, H. and Pittion, J–P. (eds), The Huguenots and Ireland: anatomy of an emigration (Dublin, 1987).

  Calendar of state papers preserved in the Public Record Office, domestic series, 1547–1695 (81 vols, London, 1856–1972).

  Calendar of state papers relating to Ireland, 1509–1670 (24 vols, London, 1860– 1912).

  Calendar of the Carew manuscripts preserved in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, 1515– 1624 (6 vols, London, 1867–73).

  Cambrensis, Giraldus, Expugnatio Hibernica, the conquest of Ireland (edited by Scott, A. B. and Martin, F. X., Dublin, 1978).

  — Topographia Hiberniae (translated by John J. O’Meara (Mounrath, 1982).

  Canny, Nicholas, ‘The flight of the earls, 1607’ in IHS, xvii, no. 67 (1970–1).

  — The formation of the Old English elite in Ireland (Dublin, 1975).

  Carleton, S. T., Heads and hearths: the hearth money rolls and poll tax returns for county Antrim 1660–69 (Belfast, 1991).

  Casey, Michael, ‘The most illustrious order of St Patrick’ in DHR, xliv, no. 2 (Autumn, 1991).

  Chandler, Edward, Photography in Ireland (Dublin, 2001).

  Clark, Mary and Refaussé, Raymond (eds), Directory of historic Dublin guilds (Dublin, 1993).

  Clarke, Aidan, ‘The history of Poyning’s law, Pt 2: 1615–1641’ in IHS, xviii, no. 70 (Sept. 1972).

  — Prelude to restoration in Ireland; the end of the commonwealth, 1659–1660 (Cambridge, 1999).

  — The graces, 1625–41 (Dundalk, 1968).

  Clear, Caitríona, Nuns in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 1987).

  Clinton, M., The souterrains of Ireland (Dublin, 2002).

  Clune, George, The medieval gild system (Dublin, 1943).

  Comerford, R. V., ‘Gladstone’s first Irish enterprise, 1864–70’ in Vaughan, W. E. (ed.), NHI, v, pt 1 (Oxford, 1989).

  — ‘Churchmen, tenants and independent opposition, 1850–56’ in NHI, iv (Oxford, 1989).

  Connell, J., Finances of the Church of Ireland (Dublin, n.d.).

  Connolly, Philomena, Medieval record sources (Dublin, 2002).

  Connolly, S. J., Religion, law and power: the making of Protestant Ireland 1660–1760 (Oxford, 1992).

  — The Oxford companion to Irish history (Oxford, 1998).

  — ‘Law, order and popular protest in early eighteenth-century Ireland: the case of the houghers’ in Corish, P. J. (ed.), Radicals, rebels and establishments (Belfast, 1985).

  — ‘The houghers: agrarian protest in early eighteenth-century Connacht’ in Philpin, C. H. E. (ed.), Nationalism and popular protest in Ireland (Cambridge, 1987).

  Connor, R. D., The weights and measures of England (London, 1987).

  Conway, Colmcille, ‘Sources for the history of the Irish Cistercians, 1142–1540’ in Ir. Cath. Hist. Comm. Proc. (1958).

  Cooke, Jim, ‘The Dublin Mechanics’ Institute 1824–1919’ in DHR, lii, no.1 (1999).

  Coolahan, John, Irish education: its history and structure (Dublin, 1981).

  Cooney, Dudley Levistone, The Methodists in Ireland, a short history (Dublin, 2001).

  Corcoran, Rev. T. (ed.), State policy in Irish education, ad 1536 to 1816 (Dublin, 1819).

  Corish, P. J., ‘Cardinal Cullen and the National Association of Ireland’ in Repertorium Novum, iii (Dublin, 1961).

  — Maynooth College, 1795–1995 (Dublin, 1995).

  Corish, Patrick J. and Sheehy, David C., Records of the Irish Catholic Church (Dublin, 2001).

  Cosgrave, Liam, ‘The King’s Inns’ in DHR, xxi, no. 2 (March, 1967).

  Cosgrove, Art, ‘England and Ireland, 1399–1447’ in NHI, ii (Oxford, 1987).

  Cowper. Report of the royal commission on the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 and the Purchase of Land
(Ireland) Act 1885, HC 1887 [C4969] XXVI. 1; Minutes of evidence and appendices, HC 1887 [C4969] XXVI. 25; Index to evidence and appendices, HC 1887 [C4969] XXVI. 1109.

  Crawford, E. Margaret, Counting the people: a survey of Irish censuses, 1813–1911 (Dublin, 2003).

  Crawford, Jon G., ‘The origins of the court of castle chamber; a star chamber jurisdiction in Ireland’ in American Journal of Legal History, xxiv (1980).

  Crawford, W. H., ‘The evolution of the linen trade in Ulster before industrialisation’ in Ir. Econ. & Soc. Hist., 15 (1988).

  — ‘The study of townlands in Ulster’ in Gillespie, Raymond and Hill, Myrtle (eds), Doing Irish local history (Belfast, 1998).

  Cregan, Donal F., ‘The Confederate Catholics: the personnel of the Confederation, 1642–9’ in IHS, xxxix, no. 116 (November, 1995).

  Cronin, Denis, Connell, Paul and Ó Dálaigh, Brian (eds), Irish townlands: studies in local history (Dublin, 1998).

  Crossle, Philip, Irish masonic records (n.p., 1973).

  Crossman, Virginia, Local government in nineteenth-century Ireland (Belfast, 1994).

  Crosthwaite, J. C. and Todd, J. H. (eds), The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church, Dublin (Dublin, 1844).

  Cullen, L. M., ‘Population trends in the seventeenth century’ in Economic and Social Review, vi, no. 2 (1975).

  — ‘Catholics under the penal laws’ in Eighteenth-century Ireland, i (1986).

  Culliton, James A., ‘The Four Courts, Dublin’ in DHR, xxi (1966–67).

  Cunningham, Bernadette, ‘The composition of Connacht in the lordships of Clanricard and Thomond, 1577–1641’ in IHS, xxiv, no. 93 (1984).

  — The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2000).

  Curtin, Nancy, The United Irishmen: popular politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791–98 (Oxford, 1994).

  Daly, Gabriel, ‘Church renewal 1869–1877’ in Hurley, Michael (ed.), Irish Anglicanism, 1869–1969 (Dublin, 1970).

  Danaher, Kevin (Caoimhín Ó Danachair), ‘Hearth and chimney in the Irish house’ in Béaloideas, xvi (1946).

  Davies, Oliver and Quinn, David B. (eds), ‘The Irish pipe roll of 14 John, 1211– 1212’ in UJA, 3rd ser., no. 4 (1941).

  Davis, Richard, The Young Ireland movement (Dublin, 1987).

  Dawson, N. M., ‘Illicit distillation and the revenue police in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ in Ir. Jurist, xii (1977).

  de Blácam, Aodh, Gaelic literature surveyed (Dublin, 1929).

  de Blaghd, Earnán, ‘The DMP’ in DHR, xx, no. 1 (1964).

  de Breffny, Brian (ed.), Ireland: a cultural encyclopaedia (London, 1983).

  de Vere White, Terence, ‘The Freemasons’ in Williams, T. Desmond (ed.), Secret societies in Ireland (Dublin, 1973).

  Devon. Report from Her Majesty’s commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland, HC 1845 [605] XIX. I; Minutes of evidence, pt i, HC 1845 [606] XIX. 57; Minutes of evidence, pt ii, HC 1845 [616] XX; Minutes of evidence, pt iii, HC 1845 [657] XXI; Appendix to minutes of evidence, pt iv, HC 1845 [672] XXII; Index to minutes of evidence, pt v, HC 1845 [673] XXII. 225.

  Dickson, David, ‘Middlemen’ in Bartlett, Thomas and Hayton, D. W. (eds), Penal era and golden age: essays in Irish history, 1690–1800 (Belfast, 1979).

  Dickson, David, Keogh, Daire and Whelan, Kevin (eds), The United Irishmen: republicanism, radicalism and rebellion (Dublin, 1993).

  Dillon, Myles (ed.), Lebor na cert: the book of rights (London, 1962).

  — Early Irish literature (Chicago, 1948).

  Diocesan Schools. Fourth report of the Board of Education in Ireland, HC 1810 (174) X. 209; Fifth report of the commissioners of Irish education inquiry, HC 1826–7 (441) XIII. 359.

  Dolley, Michael, ‘The Irish coinage, 1534–1691’ in Moody, T. W., Martin, F. X. and Byrne, F. J. (eds), NHI, iii (Oxford, 1976).

  Donnelly, J. S. Jr, ‘The Rightboy movement 1785–8’ in Studia Hibernica 17/18 (1977– 8).

  — ‘The Whiteboy movement 1761–5’ in IHS, xxi, no. 81 (1978).

  — ‘Hearts of Oak, Hearts of Steel’ in Studia Hibernica 21(1981).

  — ‘Pastorini and Captain Rock: millenarianism and sectarianism in the Rockite movement of 1821–4’ in Clark, S. and Donnelly, J. S. (eds), Irish peasants: violence and political unrest, 1780–1914 (Wisconsin and Manchester, 1983).

  Dooley, Terence, Sources for the history of landed estates in Ireland (Dublin, 2000).

  Duffy, Patrick J., ‘Social and spatial order in the MacMahon lordship of Airghialla in the late sixteenth century’ in Duffy, Patrick J., Edwards, David and FitzPatrick Elizabeth (eds), Gaelic Ireland c. 1250–1650: land lordship and settlement (Dublin, 2001).

  Duffy, Seán (ed.), Atlas of Irish history (Dublin, 1997).

  Duhigg, Bartholomew, History of the King’s Inns, or an account of the legal body in Ireland (Dublin, 1806).

  Dunning, P. J., ‘The Arroasian order in medieval Ireland’ in IHS, iv, no. 16 (September 1945).

  Dwyer, Charles (ed.), ‘Archbishop Butler's visitation book’ in Archiv. Hib., xxxiii (1975), pp. 1–90 and Archiv. Hib., xxxiv (1976–7), pp. 1–49.

  Education Inquiry. First report of the commissioners of Irish education inquiry, HC 1825 (400) XII; Second report of the commissioners of Irish education inquiry, HC 1826–7 (12) XII; Ninth report of the commissioners of Irish education inquiry, HC 1826–7 (516) XIII; Report from the select committee to whom the reports of education in Ireland were referred, HC 1828 (341) IV.

  Edwards, R. Dudley, ‘The beginning of municipal government in Dublin’ in DHR, i, no. 1 (March, 1938), pp. 2–10. — (ed.), ‘The minute book of the Catholic Committee, 1773–92’ in Archiv. Hib., ix (1942).

  Edwards, Robin Dudley and Moody, T. W., ‘The history of Poynings’ law, Pt 1: 1494– 1615’ in IHS, ii, no. 8 (Sept. 1941).

  Ellis, S. G., ‘Economic problems of the Church: why the Reformation failed in Ireland’ in Jn. Ecc. Hist. 41, 2 (1990).

  — Reform and revival: English government in Ireland 1470–1534 (Woodbridge, 1986).

  — Ireland in the age of the Tudors 1447–1603 (London, 1998).

  Emerson, N. D., The Church of Ireland and the 1859 revival (Belfast, 1959).

  Erck, John Caillard (ed.), A repertory of the inrolments of the patent rolls of chancery in Ireland, James I (2 vols, 2 parts, 1846–1852).

  Evangeliorum quattuor Codex Durmachensis (2 vols, 1960).

  Evans, E. Estyn, ‘The flachter’ in UJA, 3rd ser., iv (1941).

  — Irish heritage: the landscape, the people and their work (Dundalk, 1942).

  — The personality of Ireland (revised edition, Belfast, 1981).

  Fagan, Patrick, Divided loyalties: the question of an oath for Irish Catholics in the eighteenth century (Dublin, 1997).

  Falkiner, C. Litton, ‘The Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland’ in RIA Proc., xxvi, C (1906–07).

  — Illustrations of Irish history and topography, mainly of the seventeenth century (London, 1904).

  Farrell, Brian ‘The patriot parliament of 1689’ in Farrell, Brian (ed.), The Irish parliamentary tradition (Dublin, 1973).

  Feenan, Dermot and Kennedy, Liam, ‘Weights and measures of the major food commodities in early-nineteenth century Ireland: a regional perspective’ in RIA Proc., C, cii (2002).

  Ferguson, James F., ‘The “mere English” and the “mere Irish”’ in Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, i (1849–51).

  ffolliott, Rosemary and Begley, Donal F., ‘Guide to Irish directories’ in Begley, Donal F. (ed.), Irish genealogy: a record finder (Dublin, 1981).

  ffolliott, Rosemary and O’Byrne, Eileen, ‘Wills and administrations: a prime source for family research’ in Begley, Donal F. (ed.), Irish genealogy: a record finder (Dublin, 1981).

  Finnegan, Ruth and Drake, Michael (eds), Sources and me
thods for family and community historians: a handbook (Cambridge, 1994).

  FitzPatrick, William J., History of the Dublin Catholic cemeteries (Dublin, 1900).

  Fitzsimons, Fiona ‘Fosterage and gossipred in late medieval Ireland: some new evidence’ in Duffy, Patrick, Edwards, David and FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (eds), Gaelic Ireland c. 1250–1650: Land, lordship and settlement (Dublin, 2001).

  Flanagan, Kieran, ‘The chief secretary’s office, 1853–1914: a bureaucratic enigma’ in IHS, xxiv. no. 94 (1984–5).

  Flood, W. H. G., ‘The Premonstratensians in Ireland’ in IER, 5th ser., ii (1913).

  Ford, P. and G., A guide to parliamentary papers: what they are, how to find them, how to use them (Oxford 1955).

  — Select list of British parliamentary papers, 1833–1899 (Oxford, 1953).

  Foundling Hospital. Journal of the house of commons of the kingdom of Ireland, vi, xcvi– xcvii; Eighth report from the commissioners of the Board of Education in Ireland, HC 1810 (193) X; Third report of the commissioners of Irish education inquiry, HC 1826-27 (13) XIII; Report of George Nicholls on institutions receiving grants from public funds in 1842, HC 1842 (389) XXXVIII.

  Frame, Robin, ‘Commissions of the peace in Ireland’ in Anal. Hib., 35 (1992).

  — ‘The judicial powers of the medieval Irish keeper of the peace’ in Ir. Jurist, new ser., ii (1967).

  Freeman, A. Martin (ed.), Annála Connacht ad 1224–1544 (Dublin, 1985).

  — (ed.), The compossicion booke of Conought (Dublin, 1936).

  Galloway, Peter, The order of St Patrick and its knights (Phillamore, 1999).

  Garvin, Tom, The evolution of Irish nationalist politics (Dublin, 1981).

  Geoghegan, Patrick M., The Irish act of union: a study in high politics, 1798–1801 (Dublin, 1999).

  Gilbert, J. T. (ed.), Register of the abbey of St Thomas the martyr, Dublin (London, 1889).

  — (ed.), Crede mihi; the most ancient register book of the archbishops of Dublin before the reformation (Dublin, 1897).

  — History of the Irish Confederation and the war in Ireland, 1641–43 (7 vols, Dublin, 1882–91).

  Gillespie, Raymond, ‘A manor court in seventeenth-century Ireland’ in Ir. Econ. Soc. & Hist., xxv (1998).

  Gillespie, Raymond and Kennedy, Brian P. (eds), Ireland: art into history (Dublin, 1994).