Description
The twelfth volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study ever undertaken on Derry. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, and historians of economics, culture and politics combine to provide an attractive account of this key region.

Features
Twenty-eight original essays by distinguished scholars place Derry in its local, national and European contexts.

Editors
Gerard O’Brien

Readership
All interested in getting to know Ireland through its regions. Derry people at home and abroad. Suitable for both the academic and general reader.

Format/Extent
228 x 152 mm

Content

Preface: Great undertakings in the County of Coleraine by Sam Burnside

Introduction

• Microliths, megaliths, beakers and bronze – The Prehistoric archaeology of County Londonderry, 7,000-400BC
• County Derry in the Early Historic Period
• Derry, Iona, England and the Governance of the Columban Church
• Tir Eoghain ‘North of the Mountain’
• Derry Diocese on the eve of the Plantation
• The Fishmongers’ Company and the Plantation
• The Legacy of John Bramhall as Laud’s Alter-Ego
• The Lagan Arm and the First Siege of Derry, 1649
• Londonderry and Coleraine: walled towns, epitome or exception
• The City of Londonderry: demographic trends and socio-economic characteristics, 1650-1900
• The Cromwellian and Restoration land settlement, 1640-1685
• The sad fate of the besiegers of Derry
• The O’Kanes – recently discovered poems
• The Siege: Its history and legacy, 1688-1889
• Landscape development in north-west and south-east Derry, 1700-1840
• Changing farming methods in County Derry
• Catholic and Protestant relations in Derry in the episcopacy of Charles O’Donnell, 1798-1823
• Emmigration from Derry: A study in source-materials
• Food and Famine: diet in County Londonderry, 1820-1860
• Contradiction and diversity: The musical life of Derry in the 1830s
• Religious residential segregation in urban County Derry, 1831-1991: A study of variation in space and time
• Aspects of Poor Law and Workhouse administration in Derry, 1838-1948
• The Broighter Hoard: A question of ownership
• Radical Nationalist activities in County Derry, 1900-1921
• Seamus Heaney: an interpretation
• Nationalist politics in Derry, 1945-1969
• Housing and conflict: social change and collective action in Derry in the 1960s
• ‘Our Magee Problem’: Stormont and the second university