Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

There are numerous traveller's accounts of Ireland from the 17th century onwards, a valuable resource for historians but not always easy to use. This guide offers a discursive introduction & annotations of over 200 accounts from 1635 to 1948.

An in-depth, critical investigation of the history, historiography, and cultural memory of the events of 1904 and their afterlife, examining them through a variety of lenses: local, political, economic, theological/ecclesiastical, sectarian, and Jewish.

Lackagh is situated 12 miles north-east of Galway City and includes the townlands : Ballinasheeoge, Ballinvoher, Ballybrone, Ballyglass, Ballymoneen, Barnaboy, Cahernahoon, Cahernashelleny, Cahertymore North, Cahertymore North & South, Canteeny, Caraun, Caraunkeelwy, Carheenlea, Carheeny, Cashla,...

Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and research changed the direction of prehistoric studies in Ireland, this collection of essays, authored by a number of his colleagues, cont...