Mchugh Heritage and Irish Research

Hardback. Here we get a glimpse from earliest times of migratory man into Erris in the NW of Mayo. Survival, evolution, inter-tribal and clan-warfare, followed by the British, Norman, pro-Reformation and Cromwellian periods.

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This third edition provides the researcher with a huge selection of genealogical sources to draw on for family and local history. Each chapter is devoted to a sources type providing an introduction, a description of the source, its location and reference.

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Sources for tracing Kerry Ancestry, whats available and where to find it.

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This volume contains a list of books, monographs and periodical papers dealing with specific Irish families. The references cited are mainly accounts of families and their ancestral homes to dispassionate, well-researched and fully documented pedigrees.

If you are interested in this book, then please feel free to email me first to make sure that the names you are researching, appear in the book.

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This book details the records of each of the 8 major Irish denominations and their value for family history. The locations of the records of each church and guidlines for their access, are provided.

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This is a comprehensive index to the 1901 census of County Longford. It lists the names and townland or street address of 10,000 Longford householders and also of almost 7,000 servants, lodgers and other persons resident in these households but whose names are different to those of the householder.

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The families of Mayo are a mixture of native families, of gaelic families who migrated from Ulster in the 18th century, and of English and Scots-Irish settlers who came to Mayo from the 17th century onwards. This book sets out the records available to the family researcher, detailing each source, its location and reference.

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Donegal families are an interesting mix of native Irish families and of the Scots-Irish who came to the county from the 17th century onward. It is one of the counties which have experienced a high level of emigration to North America, Scotland the the North of England. This new edition sets out the range of Donegal genealogival sources available to the family history researcher.

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Limerick is a large Irish county in the province of Munster. The genealogical resources for Limerick are diverse, ranging from the remote rural agricultural areas to the urban population of Limerick city. This book sets out the records available, where they can be accessed and how they can be best used in tracking your Limerick ancestors.

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Roscommon is one of the smallest Irish counties. Its social history is mainly based around agriculture and it was badly affected by the great famine of 1845-47 , which resulted in the death and emigration of a hurge proportion of its population. This book sets out the range of Roscommon genealogical sources available to the family history researcher. It devotes a chapter to each source type explaining what information each contains, and where each record can be accessed.

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Galway county is home to a widely diverse population of peoples whose culture and history has been shaped by the barren landscapes of its Western seaboard, or the rich farmlands at its Eastern end. Genealogical records are also diverse, varying from sparse in the Western areas to extensive for some of the inhabitants of Galway city. This book sets out the records available to the family history researcher, where they can be obtained and how to use each to the best effect.

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Evidence of human activity in Arklow goes back thousand of years. This book gives a comprehensive overview of how Arklow became the town that it is today.

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The events which took place between 1798 and 1803, when Irish rebels attempted to seize power from the colonial government, has left a lasting mark on the people and landscape of Co. Wicklow. The rugged mountains formed a place of refuge for the United Irishmen, from where they could organise raids on the lowlands that surrounded them. Rebel leaders such as Billy Byrne, Joseph Holt and Michael Dwyer became heores during this time. With 24 sites of interest listed, both in the towns and the mountains, and easy to follow maps, you can plan a route around the county . All the memorials commemorating the Rebellion period are listed.

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Billy Byrne was one of the most romantic figures of the 1798 rebellion. His monument in front of the courthouse in which he was tried in Wicklow symbolises the noble figure of folklore. Shortly after his trial in 1799 an edited version of the transcript was published in Dublin. Now almost 200 years later that transcript is re-issued .

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In 1850 an aging priest named Fr Thomas Hore led a group of over 1000 people from their homes in counties Wicklow and Wexford to start new lives in the America, mid-west. This book follows the group's progress from their departure from Ireland to their brief stay in Liverpool and the Atlantic voyage. The names of 847 of those who travelled with Fr. Hore forms a fascinating appendix to this story.

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Rita Nolan has studied the Mullet peninsula, a community on the periphery of the periphery of Europe. She tells the story of the human experience of that area. From the story of the first christians, the impact of landlordism, the harrowing years of the Famine and the gradual modernisation of the community during the twentieth century.

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In the Ireland of the 1830s, three brothers from Waterford, the Connerys, were among the greatest agrarian rebels. Despite escapes from prison and apparent immunity to police bullets and the hangmans rope. All were eventually transported to New South Wales.

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This book traces the lives of three members of the Gaynor family of Tone, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

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William Steurt Trench. Land Agent and author was a highly controversial figure in his day. Appointed land agent of the Landsdowne estate in Kerry just after the Great Famine, he was vilified for shipping some 4,000 destitute persohs from Kenmare to the US and Canada.. With a view to preventing further destitution he devised a set or iron rules of the estate, regulating marriage and other intimate aspects of tenant life.

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This book looks at the way the migration of groups of people wwas managed by a variety of agencies in the past four centuries in Ireland.

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Galway is one of Ireland's most important and interesting cities. It has always been a place of contrasts, where class antagonisms have endured alongside a strong sense of loyalty to the city.

Drawing from a range of sources, such as local newspapers, police reports, official statistics and the impressions of visitors, this book explores urban life durting a difficult period in the history of Galway.

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Local History and Folklore of the Vale between Slievenamon and Suir.

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This book provides researchers with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their locations, their strengths and their limitations.

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This book focuses on how local historians can source and use the various cnesuses and universal taxation returns and a variety of other sources of the pre-censu period to build up a population picture of a community or a local area.

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This book is intended as an aid to Irish Historians on the use of travellers' accounts as a source material. Includes traveller's identity and purpose, persons encounted and theories etc.

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The book traces the emergence of a Protestant middle-class family in late 18th century Dublin. From relative obscurity, in just three generations, the Shaw family were to rise to the highest echelons of Dublin business, political and socail life.

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This book looks at Sir Robert Gore Booth and his estates. One of the larges proprietors in Co. Sligo in the 19th century with properties in Drumcliff, Rossiver and Ballymote. Gore Booth was an improving and resident landlord who spent large amounts of money improving the estate and in building Lissadell House.

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In the 20th century alone, Irish men and women fought in two world wars, a revolution and civil war in Ireland itself, in the armies of Britain and the commonwealth, the US and on both sides in the Boer War and Spanish Civil War; additionally they engaged in numerous peacekeeping missions with the UN. It lists the archives and libraries and institutions that hold source material and provides contact details, and also catalogues the museums, heritage sites and battlefields that are accessible to the public.

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The Story of the Church Street disaster and a pictorial account of the slums of Dublin in 1913.

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This book traces the rise of the resort of Bray from its humble beginnings as a small village by the River Dargle to the days when 20,000 visitors arrived by train for the Whitsun holiday alone.

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The guide evaluated the wealth of offical reports available to be researched, both in the British Parliamentary Papers and in archival repositories such as the National Archives of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland and offers guidance on the use of these sources.

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Excavations and Restoration of Roscrea Castle

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Excellent book like all the others in the Tracing your Ancestors series. Gives information and ideas in a simple to understand format.

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