An Irish Bookshelf

of Books I've read

RESEARCH 

• Grenham, John, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors  
• Kennedy, Liam, Paul Ell, EM Crawford and LA Clarkson Mapping the Great Irish Famine
• McGee, Frances  The Archives of the Valuation of Ireland 1830-1865
• Roulston, Wm J  Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors  

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HISTORY

• Arbuthnot, Sharon, Maire Nimhaonagh and Gregory Toner A History of Ireland in 100 Word
• Boyle, Elizabeth & Ruairi O hUiginn (eds) Book of Ui Mhaine : Codices Hibernenses Emimii III 
• Byrne, DavidThe Impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's Estates in Mayo, 1840-1869
• Byrne, Francis J Irish Kings and High Kings
• Ellis, Peter Berresford Eyewitness to Irish History, Celtic Women, The Druids, A History of the Irish Working Class
• The Four Masters The Annals of Ireland (translations by Owen Connelan and John O'Donovan) Compiled in the 1600s using the following manuscripts. (   The Annals of Tigernach ( Clonmacnois) (wikipedia)    Book of Clonmacnois (wikipedia    Annals of Innisfallen (Monks of Innisfallen Abbey circa 1092) (wikipedia)    Book of the Mac Bruadins (Hereditary historians to O'Briens and other tribes of Thomond)    Annals of Ulster  (431-1540) (wikipedia)    Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Conquests or Invasions) (Wikipedia)    The book of Mac Firbises, antiquaries of Leacan in Tireragh, Sligo,    The Book of the O'Conrys, historians to the Kings of Connaught   The Book of the O'Duigenans of Kilronan in Roscommon (wikipedia)    the Book of the Island of All Saints in Loughree     The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain - and Giolla Na Naomh O'Huidhrin
• Hamrock, Ivor The Famine in Mayo: A portrait from contemporary Sources 1845-1850
  
• Henry, Eamonn Historic Tales of Mayo
• Keating, Rev. Geoffrey D.D. The History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period to the English Invasion - translated from Irish by John O'Mahony 1866   Foras feasa ar Éirinn, was completed c. 1634.  It is a combination of Legend and known history from the earliest days of Ireland through the early 17th century.
• Leachlainn, Martan John Mhailic Sheain/ Martin O'Halloran The Lost Gaeltacht                    
• Little, George A Dublin Before the Vikings
• Moran, Gerard James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880's 
• The Famine In Mayo: A Portrait from Contemporary Sources

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FAIRY TALES  / Stories 

• Becker, Heinrich Seaweed Memories: In the Jaws of the Sea
• Jacobs, Joseph   Celtic Fairy Tales

 

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BIOGRAPHY

•  Egan, Timothy    The Immortal Irishman (Thomas Francis Meagher)
• Tillyard, Stella      Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald Irish Revolutionary

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GEOGRAPHY and PICTORAL

• Nolan, Paul The Spirit of Ireland

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FAMILY HISTORIES

• Geraghty, Nick  The Celtic Fringe(Geraghty)

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 HISTORICAL FICTION

• Delaney, Frank   Ireland 
• Egan, Charles The Killing Snows
• Ellis, Peter Berresford Rising of the Moon
• Joyce, Joe 1691: A Novel
• Kickham, Charles Knocknagow: The Houses of Tipperary
• Osborne-McKnight, Juilene I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick & Osian
  
• Rutherford, Edward   Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
• Tremayne, Peter Sister Fidelma Mystery Series (1)Absolution by Murder (2)Shroud for the Archbishop(3)Suffer Little Children(4)The Subtle Serpent (5)The Spider's Web (6) Valley of the Shadow (7) The Monk Who Vanished (8) Act of Mercy (9) Hemlock at Vespers (10) Our Lady of Darkness (11) Smoke in the Wind (12) The Haunted Abbot (13) Badgers Moon (14) Whispers of the Dead (17) A Prayer for the Damned (18) Dancing With Demons (19) The Council of the Cursed (20) The Dove of Death (21)  The Chalice of Blood  (22) Behold a Pale Horse  (23) The Seventh Trumpet (24) Atonement of Blood (25)The Devil's  Seal (26) The Second Death (27) Penance of the Damned (28) Night of the Lightbringer (29) Blood Moon (30) Blood in Eden (31)The Shapeshifter's Lair  (32) The House of Death (33) Death of a Heretic (32) Revenge of the Stormbringer
• Uris, Leon   Trinity, Redemption

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 FICTION

• Binchy, Maeve Light a Penny Candle, Circle of Friends, Quentins, The Glass Lake, Firefly Summer
• Connolly, Sheila  County Cork Mysteries (1) Buried in a Bog (2) Scandal in Skibbereen
• O'Brien, Flann The Poor Mouth 
• O'Connor, Carlene  Murder in an Irish Village, Murder In the Irish Churchyard 
•  Verne, Jules The Extraordinary Adventures of Fondling Mick