Pathfinders to the past

The antiquarian road to Irish historical writing, 1640–1960

Foreword
Charles Doherty, President RSAI

Preface
Próinséan Ní Chatháin & Siobhán Fitzpatrick

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh: his life and significance
Nollaig Ó Muraíle

Walter Harris and The whole works of Sir James Ware
Diarmaid Ó Catháin

Extending the grand tour: Dr Pococke’s travels, 1737–41
Michael McCarthy (†)

James Hardiman, 1782–1855: ‘the historian of Galway’
Marie Boran

George Petrie: his life and work
Paul Walsh

The life and work of Robert MacAdam of Belfast, 1808–95
Annraoi de Paor

William Reeves, 1815–92
Ann Hamlin (†)

Philip Doyne Vigors: soldier and antiquarian, 1825–1903
Siobhán de hÓir

A.H. Lane Fox Pitt Rivers and Ireland
Elizabeth Shee Twohig

Some Cork antiquarians and collectors in the nineteenth century
Aideen M. Ireland

Thomas Johnson Westropp, 1860–1922
Liam Irwin

Henry Saxton Crawford: quintessential antiquary
Dorothy Kelly

R.A.S. Macalister
Muiris O’Sullivan

The antiquarian scholarship of J.J. Tierney
George L. Huxley