Limerick history and society : Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county
Irwin, Liam2009
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Main title:
Limerick history and society : Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county / editors Liam Irwin and Gearoid O Tuathaigh.
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Imprint:
Dublin : Geography Publications, c.2009.
Collation:
xxiii, 697 p. : ill., maps ; 24cm.
Notes:
The formation of the medieval church in Limerick / John Fleming. The medieval city of Limerick / Brian Hodkinson. The crown of England, the common law, and conflict: the communities of Limerick 1170-1270 / Emmett O'Byrne. Architecture and conflict: Limerick's tower houses, c.1400 to c.1659 / Colm J. Donnelly. Broken heads and trampled hearts: rioting in Limerick in 1599 / Clodagh Tait. Religious and social change in early modern Limerick: the testimony of the Sexton family papers / Colm Lennon. Ballaí Luimnigh: the sieges of Limerick / Pádraig Lenihan. Limerick's eighteenth-century economy / David Fleming. The United Irishmen in Limerick, 1791-8 / Ruan O'Donnell. Ó Bharr Féile go Dún Diamhair: ceiliúradh Luimnigh i bhfilíocht na Máighe san ochtú haiois déag / Úna nic Éinrí. Growth and development of County Limerick's leading towns / P. J. O'Connor. Barracks, asylum and Model School: public architecture in Limerick from the late 18th to the mid-19th century / Judith Hill. Images of Askeaton before the Great Famine / Patrick F. Wallace. Land tenure, farm economy, labour and society in West Limerick 1820-45 / Gerard Curtin. The Irish tradition in Limerick / Breandán Ó Madagáin. Limerick ballad makers, printers, singers and sellers, 1785-1880 / John Moulden. The evolution of local government in Limerick City since 1800 / Matthew Potter. Emigration from the workhouses of Limerick, 1848-1859 / S. C. O'Mahony. The emergence of popular politics in County Limerick, 1868-1874 / Gerard Moran. Thomas Johnson Westropp / Liam Irwin. The 4th Earl of Dunraven (1841-1926): local realities and 'conciliation' politics / Michael V. Spillane. A virtuous alliance: muscular and musical Christianity in late 19th-century Limerick / Tom Hayes. Landlords, estates, demesnes and mansion houses in County Limerick c.1870-c.1920 / Jonathan Cherry. Frugal comfort: housing Limerick's labourers and artisans 1841-1946 / John Logan. The impact of the Anglo-Irish economic war 1932-38 on the agricultural sector in Limerick City and County / Jason Begley. Aspects of socio-economic development in Limerick City since 1970: a geographer's perspective / Des McCafferty. 'Writing Limerick': historians and other chroniclers / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh. Index of names and places.
ISBN:
9780906602492
Dewey class:
941.94
Language:
English
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BRN:
1746589