SEEING THROUGH COUNTIES: GEOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY IN IRELAND
Written by Patrick J. O'Connor
Published by Oireacht Na Mumhan Books
in 2006
ISBN: 0953389650
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SEEING THROUGH COUNTIES: GEOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY IN IRELAND
Written by Patrick J. O'Connor.
Stock no. 2140678
Circa.
2006.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Black boards with gilt title to spine. B/w maps. ISBN: 0953389650. SIGNED by author with dedication to a previous owner on title page. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- I EVOLUTION OF A COUNTY SYSTEM
- Politico/Territorial Divisions c. 1169
- Beginnings: Ireland c. 1200
- Early Development: Ireland c. 1240
- Maturation: Ireland c. 1300
- Contraction: Ireland c. 1460
- Diminution: Ireland c. 1520
- Making Counties c. 1542-1606
- Shaping Counties c. 1569-1606
- II MAPPING THE COUNTY
- Wicklow and Ferns 1579
- Mayo 1584-5
- Mayo/Sligo 1587-9
- Monaghan 1591
- Fermanagh 1594
- Derry/Londonderry 1622
- County Towns: Tralee and Cavan
- Hierniae Delineatio: Carlow 1685
- Hiberniae Delineatio: Limerick 1685
- Hiberniae Delineatio: Counties 1685
- County Maps 1739-98
- County Maps 1801-30
- Counties and Roads 1778
- Six-Inch Map: Counties 1829-46
- Six-Inch Map: Kilkenny
- Six-Inch Map: Londonderry
- III SURVEYING THE COUNTY
- Molyneux County Surveys 1682-5
- Pier's Westmeath 1682
- County Surveys 1744-56
- Smith's Kerry 1756
- County Statistical Surveys 1801-32
- Tighe's Kilkenny 1802
- Ordnance Survey Memoirs: Counties
- Ordnance Survey Memoirs: Donegal
- Ordnance Survey Memoirs: Armagfh
- History & Society Series: Tipperary
- History & Society Series: Counties
- History & Society Series: Dublin
- IV WRITING THE COUNTY
- W.B. Yeats' Sligo
- Sean O'Faolain's Limerick
- John B. Kean's Kerry
- Patrick Kavanagh's Monaghan
- Seamus Heaney's Derry
- Patrick O'Connor's Westmeath
- Henry Glassie's Fermanagh
- Thomas McCarthy's Waterford
- John McGahern's Leitrim
- Benedict Kiely's Laois
- Kevin Myers' Carlow
- Paul Durcan's Mayo
- Billy Rackard's Wexford
- Paul Muldoon's Armagh
- Tony O'Malley's Kilkenny
- Francis Ledwidge's Meath
- Cathal O Searcaigh's Donegal
- John Waters' Roscommon
- J.M. Synge's Wicklow
- W.J. Smyth's Tipperary
- James Joyce's Dublin
- Edna O'Brein's Clare
- John Montague's Tyrone
- Maria Edgeworth's Longford
- Breandan O hEithir's Galway
- Elizabeth Bowen's Cork
- William Bulfin's Offaly
- Dermot Healy's Cavan
- John Hewitt's Antrim
- Stephen Rynne's Kildare
- Dermot O'Brien's Louth
- E.E. Evan's Down
- V EVOKING THE COUNTY
- Emigrant Commemorative Field
- Emigrant Counties of Origin
- Emigrant Songs I
- Emigrant Songs II
- A Song for Every County
- Traditional Music
- Hurling County Borderland
- Premier County Hurling 1958-65
- Hurling Counties I
- Hurling Counties II
- Memories of Mayo Football
- County Football Hero
- Gaelic Football Counties I
- Gaelilc Football Counties II