Publications about the social history of your ancestor’s home are useful in creating a full narrative about your ancestor’s life and how your ancestor lived. The various titles provide images of iconic landmarks in Ireland as well as descriptions of townlands and local people. You may not gain a large amount of genealogical details from these book. However, search for your surname and you may discover great achievements or histories about those who held the same name.
Here is a sample of some of the publications you will discover in this collection:
Published by Thomas J Coleman & Co. in Dublin, this title includes 53 etchings of people and places throughout Ireland including O’Connell Bridge, Dublin; Wicklow Mountains; Blarney Castle, Cork; and Giant’s Causeway, Antrim.
Enjoy a tour through Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Cork, and more with this descriptive text and numerous illustrations. The illustrations were created by John Leech who previously illustrated Punch magazine. A Little Tour of Ireland was first published in 1859 under the pseudonym an Oxonian, which means a former member of Oxford University. The author is, in fact, Samuel Reynolds Hole. During his journey through Ireland, Hole described his experience in Clifden, a coastal town in Galway, as:
‘We were on Irish ground; the stillness and the solitude so wildly broken, encourages all our superstitious fancies; and everything we had read or heard of Bogies, Banshees, Kelpies, and Co., came back to our astonied [sic] souls. Were we, really, to witness something supernatural at last, something, which, when we got home, should make the teeth of our neighbours chatter, and cause the hair to stank up on our relations’ heads? ‘
This was published in 1898 by Honourable John F Finerty of Chicago to commemorate the Rebellion of 1798. It is a collection of photographs of places, buildings, and people in Ireland. The photographs depict life in 19th century Ireland. The captions provide a short history of the town or landmark depicted in the image.
In 1885, W E Wakeman published this guide to Ireland. Wakeman also wrote Three Days on the Shannon, Handbook of Irish Antiquities, and Guide to Lough Erne. The introduction provides a history beginning with ancient Ireland and the time of Tuatha-De-Danaan. The first 80 pages examines sites in Dublin. Wakeman also explores places further from Dublin including Malahide, Dundalk, Rostrevor, Lough Corrib, Killarney, Kildare, and more.
A Little Tour in Ireland, published 1859
A Patriot Prelate, the Late Most. Rev. Dr. Duggan, Bishop of Clonfert 1872-1896, published 1917
Album of Ireland
An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement under King William, published 1786
Archaeologia Hibernica, a Handbook of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian, published 1848
Croasdaile's History of Rosenallis, Co. Laois, Ireland, published 1998
Dublin's Riviera in the Mid 19th Century, published 2000
Five Years in Ireland 1895-1900, published 1901
Gerald Fitzgerald, the Great Earl of Kildare (1456-1513), 1933
History of Ireland, published 1850
Ireland and England, in the Past and Present, published 1919
Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church - A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo- Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation, published 1897
Ireland in Pictures, published 1898
Irish Diamonds, published 1847
Irish Impressions, published 1919
Jail Journal, 2nd Edition published 1914
Life of Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, his Times - Political, Social and Religious, published 1872
Literary Life: Essays and Poems, published 1921
Real Life in Ireland by a Real Paddy, published 1904
*Reminiscences of Sir Charles Cameron C.B&, published 1913
Report on Pawnbroking in Ireland, published 1838
The Case for Ireland Re-Stated, to the President of the United States Of America, with Explanatory Historical Points, published 1918
The Confederation of Kilkenny, published 1905
The Felon's Track or History of the Attempted Outbreak in Ireland (1843-1848), published 1916
The Great Famine In Ireland and A Retrospect Of The Fifty Years 1845-1895 with a Sketch of the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Congested Districts, published 1896
The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, published 1848
The Irish in Britain from the Earliest Times to the Fall and Death of Parnell, published 1892
The Irish Independence Movement on Tyneside 1919-1921, published 1999
The Making of Ireland and Its Undoing 1200-1600, published 1908
The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland, published 1889
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation, published 1833
The Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, published 1854
The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History, From the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867, published 1884
The Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Ireland, published 1885
The Wrecks of the Spanish Armada on the Coast of Ireland, from the Geographical Journal, published 1906
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, published 1853
Weavers & Related Trades, Dublin 1826, published 1998
Weavers of Prosporous, County Kildare, Balbriggan, County Dublin and Tullamore, County Offaly in Memorials of 1826, published 1998
Wild Sports of the West, with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches, published 1838