| Topic |
Time frame |
Resource
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Location
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| 1641 Rebellion
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1641
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Depositions related to the 1641 Irish Rebellion https://1641.tcd.ie/
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Ireland
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| Seasonal customs
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1850-1950
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McGarry, Marion. Irish Customs And Rituals: How our ancestors celebrated life and the seasons. ?: Orpen Press. 2020.
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Ireland
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| Farm Life
|
1841-64
|
Diaries of James Harshaw, 6 volumes. [in R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, DA995/D6/H37/1996 microfilm]
|
Down, Ireland
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| Childhood
|
1950s
|
Illingworth, Ruth. A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals. Ireland: The History Press. 2018.
|
Ireland
|
| Women's History |
1840-1890 |
Holmes, Janice, and Diane Urquhart. Coming into the light: the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1890. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast. 1994.
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Ulster
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| Landed Families
|
1860-1960
|
Dooley, Terence A. M. The decline of the big house in Ireland: a study of Irish landed families, 1860-1960. Dublin, Ireland: Wolfhound Press. 2001.
|
Ireland
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| Estate Life
|
1840-1850
|
Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland: Journals 1840-1850.
|
Ireland
|
| Rural Life
|
1800s
|
Dorian, Hugh, Breandán Mac Suibhne, and David Dickson. The outer edge of Ulster: a memoir of social life in nineteenth-century Donegal. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001.
|
Donegal
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| Rural Life
|
1800s
|
Smyth, Alfred P., and Anthony Cogan. Faith, famine and fatherland in the Irish Midlands: perceptions of a priest and historian Anthony Cogan 1826-1872. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1992.
|
Irish Midlands
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| Rural Life
|
1900-1910
|
Lynd, Robert. Home Life in Ireland. Mills, & Boon, 1909.
|
Ireland
|
| Oral History
|
|
Irish Life and Lore: Recordings and Books https://www.irishlifeandlore.com/ (3,000 hours of audio recordings)
|
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Devlin, Polly. All of us there. London, England : George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd, c1983. |
Ireland
|
| Social class, land |
1878-1960 |
Purdue, Olsen. The big house in the north of Ireland : land, power and social elites, 1878-1960. Dublin, Ireland : Univ. College of Dublin Press, 2009. |
Northern Ireland
|
| Women, politics, occupations |
1840-1890 |
Holmes, Janice and Diane Urquhart. Coming into the light : the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1890. Belfast, Ireland : Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, c1994. |
Ulster
|
| Religion, occupation |
1680-1930 |
Grogg, Tyler T. Common plowmen's children : the frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830. [Place of publication not identified] : UMI, 2009. |
Ulster
|
| Death/dying |
? |
Kelly, James and Mary Ann Lyons. Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe : historical perspectives. Sallins, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2013. |
Great Britain, Ireland, Europe
|
| Landed families |
1860-1960 |
Dooley, Terence. The decline of the big house in Ireland : a study of Irish landed families 1860-1960. Dublin, Ireland : Wolfhound Press, 2001. |
Ireland
|
| Kinship |
? |
Charles-Edwards, T.M. Early Irish and Welsh kinship. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2003. |
Ireland Wales
|
| Marriage |
? |
Ballard, Linda May. Forgetting frolic : marriage traditions in Ireland. Belfast, Ireland : Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Irish Studies, 1998. |
Ireland
|
| Heraldry, military, clans, customs, family histories, overseas Irish |
? |
Stanley, Rory J. Féil-scribhinn Liam Mhin Alasdair = Essays presented to Liam Mac Alasdair, FGSI. Dublin, Ireland : Genealogical Society of Ireland, 2009. |
Ireland
|
| Customs, manners, antiquities |
? |
Milligan, Seaton F. and Alice L. Glimpses of Erin : containing an account of the ancient civilisation, manners, customs, and antiquities of Ireland; short sketches of the more important events in history, and of the social condition of the country, past and present; and papers on tours off the beaten track... London, England : Marcus Ward, [189-?]. |
Ireland
|
| Literature, education, oral instruction, historical sketches |
? |
Anderson, Christopher. Historical sketches of the native Irish and their descendants : illustrative of their past and present state with regard to literature, education and oral instruction. Edinburgh, Scotland : Oliver & Boyd, 1830. |
Ireland
|
| Education
|
1900-1910
|
Lynd, Robert. Home Life in Ireland. Mills, & Boon, 1909.
|
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Messenger, John C. Inis Beag : isle of Ireland. United States : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. |
Ireland
|
| Food and drink |
3000 BC - present |
Hickey, Margaret. Ireland's Green Larder. London, England : Unbound, 2018. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Danaher, Kevin. Irish country people. Cork, Ireland : Mercier Press, 1966. |
Ireland
|
| Mythology, religion, festivals, architecture, arts |
Middle Ages - 1900s |
Orel, Harold and William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. Irish history and culture : aspects of a people's heritage. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 1976. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Robertson, Olivia. It's an old Irish custom. Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2016. |
Ireland
|
| Holidays
|
Prehistory - Present
|
Kelley, Ruth Edna. The Book of Hallowe’en. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1919.
|
|
| Land tenure |
? |
Butt, Isaac. Land tenure in Ireland : a plea for the Celtic race. Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2012. |
Ireland
|
| Country life |
? |
Bence-Jones, Mark. Life in an Irish country house. London, England : Constable, 1996. |
Ireland
|
| Upper-class |
? |
MacDonnell, Randal. The Lost Houses of Ireland : a chronicle of the great houses and the families who lived there. London, England : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. |
Ireland
|
| Marriage |
? |
Cosgrove, Art. Marriage in Ireland. Dublin, Ireland : College Press, 1985. |
Ireland
|
| Protestants |
1640-1770 |
Barnard, Toby. A new anatomy of Ireland : the Irish Protestants, 1640-1770. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2003. |
Ireland
|
| Archaeology, churches, military conflict, servantry, coinage, folklife, biographies |
6000s-1800s |
Rynne, Etienne and Michael Moloney, Caleb Powell, John McEnery, Stephen De Vere. North Munster studies : essays in commemoration of Monsignor Michael Moloney. Limerick, Ireland : The Thomond Archaelogical Society, 1967. |
North Munster, Limerick, County Tipperary
|
| Social revolution |
1910s |
Connolly, James. The re-conquest of Ireland. [Place of publication not identified] : Lulu, 2008. |
Ireland
|
| Rural housing, settlement, communities, landscape, Irish in America |
Middle Ages, 1800s |
Thomas, Colin and Desmond McCourt. Rural landscapes and communities : essays presented to Desmond McCourt. Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 1986. |
Ireland, Londonderry, Brittany
|
| Agrarian society, tenants |
1600-1870 |
Dowling, Martin W. Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster : 1600-1870. Portland, Oregon : Irish Academic Press, 1999. |
Ulster
|
| Biography, interviews |
? |
Bunbury, Turtle and James Fennell. Vanishing Ireland. Dublin, Ireland : Hodder Headline Ireland, 2006. |
Ireland
|
| Biography, interviews |
? |
Bunbury, Turtle and James Fennell. Vanishing Ireland : friendship and community. Dublin, Ireland : Hachette Books Ireland, 2013. |
Ireland
|
| Upper-class |
? |
O'Keeffe, Jane O'Hea. Voices from the great houses : Cork and Kerry. Cork, Ireland : Mercier Press, 2013. |
Cork, Kerry
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Danaher, Kevin. The year in Ireland. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Irish Books and Media, 1972. |
Ireland
|
| Landowners, settlers |
1500s |
Hitchcock, F. R. Montgomery. The Midland septs and the Pale : an account of the early septs and later settlers of the King's County and of life in the English pale. Dublin, Ireland : Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1908. |
King's County (Offaly)
|
| Plantation towns, poverty, religion, archaeology, geography |
1610-1689 |
Scott, Brendan. Society and administration in the Ulster Plantation towns, 1610-89. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2019. |
Ulster
|
| Earldom |
1660s-1680s |
Orrery, Earls of and Edward MacLysaght. Calendar of the Orrery papers. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University Microfilms International, 1988. |
Cork
|
| Protestants |
1641-1770 |
Barnard, Toby. Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641-1770. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2004. |
Ireland
|
| Aristocracy |
1600s |
Ohlmeyer, Jane. Making Ireland English : the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2012. |
Ireland
|
| Lifestyle, viceroyalty, house, sport, dress, society |
1641-1770 |
Barnard, T.C. Making the Grand Figure : lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2004. |
Dublin
|
| Dress, clothing, fashion
|
1800s
|
Lynd, Robert. Home Life in Ireland. Mills, & Boon, 1909.
|
Ireland
|
| Family relationships, property retention, philanthropy |
1706-1797 |
Farrell-Griffin, Margaret Nuala and Lettice Walcott. Lettice Walcott, 1706-1797 : an exploration of family relationships, testamentary behaviour and philanthropic legacy in the long eighteenth century. Limerick, Ireland : University of Limerick, 2019. |
Ireland
|
| Women, marriage, property, upper-class |
1750-1850 |
Wilson, Deborah. Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750 - 1850. Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2009. |
Ireland
|
| Children, famine |
1800s |
Kinealy, Christine and Jason King and Gerard Moran. Children and the great hunger in Ireland. Hamden, Connecticut : Quinnipiac University Press, 2018. |
Ireland
|
| Every-day life |
1800s |
Maxwell, Ian. Everyday life in 19th-century Ireland. Dublin, Ireland : History Press Ireland, 2012. |
Ireland
|
| Infanticide, women, children |
1883-1900 |
Farrell, Elaine Frances. Infanticide in the Irish Crown Files at Assizes, 1883-1900. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2012. |
Ireland
|
| Photo history |
1800s-1900s |
Sexton, Sean and Christine Kinealy. The Irish : a photohistory. New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2002. |
Ireland
|
| Lifestyle |
1800s |
Connolly, S. J. Life-styles of the Irish people in the nineteenth century. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, c1980 |
Ireland
|
| Infanticide, women, children |
1850-1900 |
Farrell, Elaine Frances. 'A most diabolical deed' : infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900. Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2013. |
Ireland
|
| Lifestyle, farm life |
1800-1930s |
Sharkey, Olive. Old days, old ways. Dublin, Ireland : O'Brien Press, 1985. |
Ireland
|
| Landowners, ascendancy |
1870s-1960s |
Bence-Jones, Mark. Twilight of the ascendancy. London, England : Constable, 1987. |
Ireland
|
| Independence, Easter Rising
|
1910-1930
|
Buck, Alan Michael. When I Was a Boy in Ireland. Lee and Shepard Co., 1936.
|
|
| Travel |
? |
Kiely, Benedict. All the way to Bantry Bay : and other Irish journeys. London, England : Victor Gollancz, 1978. |
Ireland
|
| Catholic Church, society, family |
? |
Connolly, S. J. The Catholic Church in Ireland : its impact on society and the family. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, c1980. |
Ireland
|
| Folklore, social life, customs |
? |
Concannon, Thomas, Mrs. Daughters of Banba. Dublin, Ireland : M.H. Gill and Son, 1922. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs, politics and government |
1600-1900 |
Cullen, L. M. The emergence of modern Ireland, 1600-1900. Dublin, Ireland : Gill & Macmillan, 1981. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs, politics and government |
? |
American Commission on Conditions in Ireland. Evidence on conditions in Ireland : comprising the complete testimony, affidavits and exhibits presented before the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland. Washington D.C. : 1921. |
Ireland
|
| Poor, famine |
? |
Trainor, Brian. The great famine and the poor of Ireland. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, c1980. |
Ireland
|
| Households, country life, house furnishings |
? |
Danaher, Kevin. The hearth and stool and all! : Irish rural households. Cork, Ireland : Mercier Press, 1985. |
Rural Ireland
|
| Country life, social life, culture |
? |
Brody, Hugh. Inishkillane : change and decline in the west of Ireland. London, England : Allen Lane, 1973. |
Clare, Galway, Donegal
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Lane, Padraig. Ireland. London, England : Batsford, 1974. |
Ireland
|
| Photo history, social life and customs |
1860-1880 |
National Library of Ireland (Dublin). Ireland 1860-80, from stereo photographs : facsimile documents. Dublin, Ireland : National Library of Ireland, 1981. |
Ireland
|
| Land, people, pastimes, history |
? |
Gorman, Michael and Kevin Danaher. Ireland by the Irish. London, England : Galley Press, 1963. |
Ireland
|
| Irish language, education, housing, disease, religion, military |
1930s |
Augusteijn, Joost. Ireland in the 1930s : new perspectives. Dublin, Irleand : Four Courts Press, 1999. |
Ireland
|
| Emigration/immigration, social life, population |
? |
Kennedy, Robert E., Jr. The Irish : emigration, marriage, and fertility. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1973. |
Ireland
|
| Traditions, pilgrimages, sports, literature |
1890s-1960s |
Gmelch, Sharon. Irish life and traditions. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, c1986. |
Ireland, Donegal, Clare, Aran, Derry
|
| Social life and customs |
1600s |
MadLysaght, Edward. Irish life in the seventeenth century. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 1979. |
Ireland
|
| Poor, peasantry |
? |
Connell, K. H., Irish peasant society : four historical essays. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1968. |
Ireland
|
| Landed gentry, domestic affairs |
? |
'The Landed gentry. [Dublin, Ireland : Coordinating Committee for Educational Services, 1977]. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
1845-1846 |
Foster, Thomas Campbell. Letters on the condition of the people of Ireland. London, England : Chapman & Hal, 1846. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Cullen, L. M. Life in Ireland. London, England : Batsford, 1968. |
Ireland
|
| Merchants, seamen, business, trade |
1660-1830 |
Cullen, L. M. Merchants, ships and trade, 1660-1830. Dublin, Ireland : Gill & Macmillan, 1971. |
Ireland
|
| Fish trade, social life and customs |
? |
Donnelly, Daniel J. On Lough Neagh's shores : a study of the Lough Neagh fishing community. Galbally, Tyrone, Ireland : The Donnelly Family, 1986. |
Antrim
|
| Social life and customs, manners |
until 1172 |
O'Curry, Eugene. On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish : a series of lectures vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1982. |
Ireland
|
| Mill workers |
? |
Messenger, Betty. Picking up the linen threads : life in Ulster's mills. Belfast, Ireland : Blackstaff Press, 1988. |
Ulster
|
| Religious life |
1780-1845 |
Connolly, S. J. Priests and people in pre-famine Ireland, 1780-1845. Dublin, Ireland : Gill & Macmillan, 1982. |
Ireland
|
| Law and order, rebellion, farming, women |
1600-1900 |
O'Flanagan, Patrick and Paul Ferguson and Kevin Whelan. Rural Ireland, 1600-1900 : modernisation and change. Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 1987. |
Rural Ireland
|
| Funerals, death, heraldry |
? |
Spilman, John, Sir. De Sepultura : treatise on funerals. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949. |
Ireland
|
| Military, religion, art, education, trade, business, customs, domestic life |
? |
Joyce, P. W. A social history of ancient Ireland : treating of the government, military system, and law; religion, learning, and art; trades, industries, and commerce; manners, customs, and domestic life, of the ancient Irish people. New York, New York : Benjamin Blom, 1968. |
Ireland
|
| History, church history |
? |
Inglis, Brian. The story of Ireland. London, England : Faber and Faber, 1956. |
Ireland
|
| Travelling people, daily life |
? |
Gmelch, Sharon and Pat Langan and George Gmelch. Tinkers and travellers. Dublin, Ireland : The O'Brien Press, 1979. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs |
? |
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Ulster folk ways : based on the collections of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Belfast, Ireland : Eason & Son, 1978. |
Ulster, Down
|
| Country life, folklore, language, history |
? |
Webb, David A. and James Meenan and British Association for the Advancement of Science. A view of Ireland : twelve essays on different aspects of Irish life and the Irish countryside. Dublin, Ireland : British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1957. |
Ireland
|
| Country life, country house |
1922-1973 |
Crooke, Emer. White elephants : the country house and the state in independent Ireland, 1922-73. Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2018. |
Rural Ireland
|
| Traditions, culture, religion, media, literature, art |
2000s |
Scanlan, Margaret. Culture and customs of Ireland. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 2006. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs, wit and humor, manners |
? |
MacDonagh, Michael. Irish life and character. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs, travel |
? |
Mathew, Frank and Francis S Walker. Ireland. Montreal : Cambridge Corp., 1905. |
Ireland
|
| Culture and society |
2000s |
Scotney, John. Ireland. London : Kuperard, 2016. |
Ireland
|
| Family, community, ethnology |
1900s |
Arensberg, Conrad M. and Solon Toothaker Kimball. Family and community in Ireland. Ennis, County Clare, Ireland : Clasp press, 2001. |
Ireland
|
| Description, travel, social life and customs |
1900s |
Sheehy, Terence. Ireland. [Dublin, Ireland]: John Hinde, 1986. |
Ireland
|
| Folklore, architecture, artifacts, legends |
400-1200 |
Time-Life Books. What life was like among Druids and high kings : Celtic Ireland, AD 400-1200. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1998. |
Ireland
|
| Manners, customs, social life |
1800s-1910s |
Hall, S. C., Mrs. Tales of Irish life and character. London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis, 1910. |
Ireland
|
| Recreation, art, sport, music, dance, religion, customs |
1800s-1900s |
Rooney, Brendan and National Gallery of Ireland. A time and a place : two centuries of Irish social life. [Dublin] : National Gallery of Ireland, 2006. |
Ireland
|
| Houses, lifestyle, folklore |
? |
Somerville-Large, Peter. Ireland's islands : their landscape, life and legends. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2001. |
Islands of Ireland
|
| Pubs, folklore |
1900s |
Kearns, Kevin Corrigan. Dublin pub life and lore : an oral history. Niwot, Colo. : Robert Rinehart Publishers ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distribued to the Trade by Publishers Group West, 1997. |
Dublin
|
| Social life and customs, folklore |
? |
Gregory, Lady and W. B. Yeats. Visions and beliefs in the West of Ireland. Gerrards Cross : Smythe, 1992. |
West Ireland
|
| Economic conditions, social life and customs |
1900s |
Breen, Richard and Christopher T Whelan, A F Heath, and British Academy. Ireland North and South : perpsectives from social science. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1999. |
Ireland
|
| Social life and customs, manners |
? |
Gorham, Maurice. Ireland yesterday. London : Batsford, 1971. |
Ireland
|
| Folklore
|
?
|
National Folklore Collection by the University College Dublin
|
Ireland
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