This book is intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of travellers’ accounts as source-material. It consists of a discursive introduction, annotations…
This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical records in Latin, French, o…
Historians have been slow to recognize photographs as important primary sources for research and it is only in recent years that photographs are being taken ser…
This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with prac…
This book highlights the principal themes and elements in the making of the landscape, and the sources which can assist historians and historical geographers in…
This book focuses on how local historians can source and use the various censuses and universal taxation returns and a variety of other sources of the pre-censu…
The English architect George Edmund Street was immensely proud of his restoration of the medieval cathedral of Christ Church. He believed he had saved the build…
Among the most important of modern documents associated with Christ Church Cathedral are the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials which stretch from 171…
This study takes a fresh look at the economic role of North West Ireland and the port and city of Derry. It sees the region as prospering from exchanges of labo…
The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between th…
