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Books About Ireland

17thC
Giraldus Cambrensis : Cambrensis Eversus .. Historia Fides in Rebus .. Odendit G Lucius Hibernis
(1662) (1848 Celtic Society, Dublin)
Richard Cox : Hibernia Anglicana, or The History of Ireland
(1689 H Clark for Joseph Watts) - 2 vols

18thC
A Book of Postings and Sale of the Forfeited and Other Estates and Interests in Ireland
(1703 Dublin)
A Tour through Ireland : To which is Prefixed a Description of the Road from London
to Holyhead : In Several Letters
(1748 London) - By Two English Gentlemen
J Bush : Hibernia Curiosa : A Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin to His friend in Dover on a Tour
(1764 Flexney) - 8 vols
Arthur Young : A Tour in Ireland
(1780 Cadell & Dodsley)
James Malton : Picturesque & Descriptive Views of the City of Dublin
(1799 London) (1978 Dolmen)

1800-1825
John Carr : The Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern & Western Parts of That Country
(1806 Richard Phillips) (1970 IUP, Shannon - Reprint)
Isaac weld : Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney
(1807 Longmans)
A Traveller's New Guide through Ireland
(1815 Dublin)
The Scientific Tourist through Ireland
(1818 London)
Pierce Egan : Real Life in Ireland, or Day & Night Scenes
(1821 London)
Rev W Hamilton : Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim
(1822 Simms & M'Intyre, Belfast)
T Crofton Croker : Researches in the S of Ireland
(1824 John Murray)
Letters from the Irish Highlands
(1825 London)
The Pleasure Tours in Ireland, with a Map and Itinerary
(1825 Edinburgh)
J N Brewer : The Beauties of Ireland
(1825 Sherwood, Jones & Martin) - 2 vols

1826-1840
Notes of a Journey in the North of Ireland, in the Summer of 1827
(1828 London)
Rev G N Wright : Ireland Illustrated in a Series of Views
(1831 Fisher & Son & Jackson) - George Petrie
The Angler in Ireland, or an Englishman's Ramble through Connaught and Munster,
during the Summer of 1831
(1834 London) - 2 vols
A Guide to the Giant's Causeway and the NE Coast of the County of Antrim
(1834 Dublin. New Ed)
Journal of a Tour in Ireland during the Months of October & November 1835
(1836 London) - By G F G M
The Irish Tourist, or the People and the Provinces of Ireland
(1837 London)

1841-1850
Tracts Relating to Ireland
(1841-3 Irish Archaeological Society, Dublin) - 2 vols
Mr & Mrs S C Hall : Ireland - Its Scenery, Character
(1841-3 London) - 3 vols
M A Titmarsh
(Thackeray) : The Irish Sketchbook (1843 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
A Visit to the Wild West, or a Sketch of the Emerald Isle
(1843 London) - By an English Traveller
The Parliamentary Gazeteer of Ireland, adapted to the New Poor Law,
etc. as existing in 1843-4
(1844-6 London) - 3 vols
Samuel Lewis : Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
(1847 Lewis) - 3 vols
Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago
(1847 Dublin) - By W
(1849 Dublin. 2nd Ed) (19851 Dublin. 3rd Ed Revised)
The Publications of the Celtic Society
(1848 Dublin)
Irish Railway Charts, Great Southern and Western Railway
(1849 Dublin)
A Week in the South of Ireland, including a Tour to Cork, Bantry, etc
(1849 Dublin) - By an Old Traveller
(1857 Dublin. 2nd Ed)
A Week in the West of Ireland
(1850 Dublin)
(1852 Dublin) - W F Wakeman

1851-1875
The Saxon in Ireland, or the Rambles of an Englishman in Search of a Settlement
in the West of Ireland
(1851 London)
(1852 London. 2nd Ed)
The Irish Tourist's Illustrated Handbook for Visitor's to Ireland in 1852
(1852 Dublin. 2nd Ed)
(1854 London. 3rd Ed) (1859 London. 7th Ed)
London to Dublin : With a Trip to the Irish Lakes and the Mountains of Connemara
(1853 London)
Brief Notes of a Short Excursion in Ireland in the Autumn : By the Editor & Sole
Proprietor of the Hull Advertiser
(1853 London)
Mr & Mrs S C Hall : Handbooks of Ireland
(1853 Virtue) - 4 vols
Midland Great Western Railway : Ireland - Dublin to Galway
(1853 Dublin)
Anthony Marmion : The Ancient & Modern History of the Maritime Ports of Ireland
(1855 Banks)
Pickings Up in Ireland : By an Englishman
(1859 London)
Ierne, or Anecdotes and Incidents during a Life in Ireland
(1860 London)
A Collection of Tracts and Treatises Illustrative of the Natural History, Antiquities
and the Political and Social State of Ireland
(1860 Dublin)
Julius Rodenberg : The Island of the Saints
(1861 Chapman)
Views in the North of Ireland, Giant's Causeway and Neighbourhood
(1862 London)
Photographs of Irish Scenery
(1866 Dublin)
The Battle-Fields of Ireland from 1688 to 1691
(1867 NY)
Marcus Keane : The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland
(1867 Hodges, Dublin)
Gems of Irish Scenery
(1868 Glasgow)
Picturesque Scenery in Ireland, Drawn by T Creswick
(1873 London)

1876-1900
Landowners in Ireland : Return of Owners of Land of One Acre and Upwards
(1876 Dublin)
George Benn : A History of the Town of Belfast
(1877-80 Marcus Ward) - 2 vols
Thomas Carlyle : Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849
(1882 Sampson, Low, Marston)
W M Hennessy : Annals of Ulster
(1887 Dublin) - 3 vols
Richard Lovett : Irish Pictures
(1888 RTS)
John Healey : Insufa Sanctorum at Docorum, or Ireland's Ancient Schools & Scholars
(1890 Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Dublin)
John O'Hart : Irish Pedigrees, or The Origin & Stem of the Irish Nation
(1878 Duffy, Dublin) - 2 vols
H A Hinkson : Student Life at trinity College, Dublin
(1892 J Charles, Dublin)
Charles Smith : The Ancient & Present State of the County & City of Cork
(1893 Guy, Cork)
W R Le Fanu : Seventy Years of Irish Life
(1893 Edward Arnold)
William Carleton : Life of William Carleton
(1896 Downey) - 2 vols
R M Young : Belfast & the Province of Ulster in the 20thC
(1898 Marcus Ward)

1900-1950
John O'Mahony : The Sunny Side of Ireland and how to see it with the Gt Southern & W Railway
(1902 Alex Thorne)
Samuel G Bayne : On an Irish Jaunting Car Through Donegal and Connemara
(1902 Harper, US)
Kate Douglas Wiggin : Penelope's Irish Experiences
(1902 Gay & Bird) - Charles E Brock
C L Adams : Castles of Ireland - Some Fortress Histories and Legends
(1904 Elliot Stock)
William Bulfin : Rambles in Eirinn
(1907 M H Gill, Dublin)
J M Synge : The Aran islands
(1907 Maunsel) - Jack B Yeats
J M Synge : In Wicklow, West Kerry & Connemara
(1911 Maunsel) - J B Yeats
G K Chesterton : Irish Impressions
(1919 Collins)
Rev Hugh Forde : Round the Coast of Northern Ireland
(1928 R Carswell, Belfast)

After 1951
Giraldus Cambrensis : The First Version of the Topography of Ireland
(1951 Dundalgan Press, Dundalk)
Robert HOGAN : After the Irish Renaissance
(1967 Minnesota UP) (1968 Macmillan)
William Carleton : The Autobiography of William Carleton
(1968 MacGibbon & Kee)
Robert HOGAN : The Modern Irish Drama
(1975-8 Dolmen) - 3 vols. with James Kilroy
Henry BOYLAN :
(Ed) Dictionary of Irish Biography (1978 Gill & Macmillan, Dublin)
(1978 Barnes & Noble, NY)
(Ed) Dictionary of Irish Literature (1979 Greenwood, Westport, Conn)
(1996 Aldwych Press £99.50. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
(Ed) S J Connolly : The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998 OUP £25)
David McKittrick & David McVea : Making Sense of the Troubles
(2001 Blackstaff £20)
Jack HOLLAND : Hope Against History
(2001 Hodder & Stoughton £6.99)
[A history of the Troubles]
Paul BEW & Gordon GILLESPIE : The Northern Ireland Peace Process 1993-6
(2001 Serif £9.99)

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