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Product Description
The ninth published volume in the Irish County History Series, published by Geography Publications, 1996. This is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study ever undertaken on Galway. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, and historians of economics, culture and politics combine to provide an attractive account of this key region.
Features
Twenty-four original essays by distinguished scholars place Galway in its local, national and European contexts.
Editors
Gerard Moran teaches in the European College, Oxford.
Raymond Gillespie is lecturer in history, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare
Readership
All interested in getting to know Ireland through its regions. Galway people at home and abroad. Suitable for both the academic and general reader.
Format/Extent
228 x 152 mm, c.900 pp, over 50 illustrations
Content -
The Personality of Galway
The Topography of Medieval and Early Modern Galway City
From Warlords to Landlords: Political and Social Change in Galway 1540-1640
Religion and the Laity in Early Modern Galway
Renaissance Galway
The Transfer of Power: Galway 1642-1703
The Politics of Protestant ascendency: County Galway 1650-1832
The Worlds of a Galway Squire: Robert French of Monivea, 1716-79
Landlords and Land Usage in Eighteenth Century Galway
The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry
The Response of the Poor Law to the Great Famine in County Galway
The Encumbered Estates Court and Galway Property 1849-58
Bishop John MacEvilly and the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth Century Galway
Minor Famines and Relief in Galway, 1815-1925
From Connacht to North America: State Aided Emigration from County Galway in the 1880s
Trade Unionism in County Galway, 1898-1914
The Western Outpost: Local Government and Woman’s Suffrage in County Galway, 1898-1918
Farmers Against Nationalists: The Rise and Fall of Clann na Talmhan in Galway
Scríobhaithe Lámhscribhínni Gaeilge I nGallimh
The Galway Gaeltacht, 1926-81: a Sociolinguistic Study of Continuity and Change
Trends in Population and Settlement in County Galway, 1971-91
Fear Ceoil Ghlinsce: Colm ó Caodháin
The Road, the House, and the Grave: a Poetics of Galway space, 1900-1970
Local History and a Select Bibliography of Galway
Early ecclesiastical settlement names of county Galway
Condition - excellent, an 'as new' copy.
