File 17 - Additional secondary reading

9 folders

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes):

'The West of Ireland', Henry Coulter, (1862);

'Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch', Maria Edgeworth, (first published in 1950);

'Rosaleen Dhass - A Tale of the Killeries', "Aroon", (1902);

'Tales of the West of Ireland', James Berry, (1966);

'Tyrone House, Co. Galway', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, (1976);

'Geography and the Irish Electoral System', A J Parker, (1984-5);

Griffiths Valuation for the Unions of Clifden and Mountbellew (1855);

Selected copies from O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters for Galway (Vol 3), (1839);

'A Statistical and agricultural survey of the County of Galway drawn up for the consideration and by the direction of the Royal Dublin Society', Hely Dutton, (1824);

'Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Moyrus', (1837);

'Slater's Directory, Ireland for Clifden', (1856);

'The Last Invasion of Ireland - When Connacht Rose', Richard Francis Hayes, (1939) - notes on Fr Miles Prendergast;

'Five letters Relating to Galway Smuggling in 1737'. Louis Cullen, (1962);

'A forgotten campaign and aspects of the heritage of South East Galway', (1986) - note about the arrest of Johnny Gibbons at Woodford;

'Connemara Refuge for Mayo Rebels of '98', Rory Lavelle, (typed piece, possibly unpublished);

'On timeless shores - journeys in Ireland', . C. Vyvyan, (1957);

'Fifty years of Irish Journalism', Andrew Dunlop, (1911) - writes of Carraroe evictions and the Maamtrasna murders;

'The Irish Crisis of 1879-80', Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee 1880, (1881) - refers to Arranmore Investigation;

'An Account of the Constitution, Administration and Dissolution of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891-1923', William L Micks, (1925);

'Memories: Wise and Otherwise', Sir Henry Robinson, (1924);

The last folder contains Tim's handwritten notes from 'Whites Tour of Connemara', 'Cromwell from Old Galway', 'O'Flaherty Iar-Chonnacht', 'Hell or Connacht! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1952-1660'. There are some tourist brochures from 1990s also in this folder, and have been left here as per original order.

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