This book is the 22nd volume in the History and Society Series. The book, which comprises a series of narratives delivered through the diverse lenses of a range of academics and local historians, is a real celebration of Mayo. This collection explores the historical, political, social and religious influences that have shaped and developed Mayo from pre-Christian times right through to the modern day. “This is a book that all Mayo people should read. It defines our personality and enriches each person’s understanding of who we are”, Enda Kenny former Taoiseach.
List of Contributors
Introduction by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, T.D.
Chapter 1 An introduction to archaeological monuments in County Mayo by Bernard O’Hara
Chapter 2 Céide fields and Belderrig Valley: Four score years of research by Séamus Caulfield
Chapter 3 Croagh Patrick and prehistoric mountain pilgrimage in Ireland: modern myth or ancient reality? by Michael Gibbons
Chapter 4 Croagh Patrick’s early associations, Patrician and Non-Patrician by Pádraig Ó Riain
Chapter 5 The early history of Mayo of the Saxons by Vera Orschel
Chapter 6 The placenames of Mayo by Fiachra Mac Gabhann
Chapter 7 The late medieval friaries of the mendicant orders in County Mayo by Yvonne McDermott
Chapter 8 Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge de Bhunadh Mhaigh Eo le Nollaig Ó Muraíle
Chapter 9 Manuscript cultures in early modern Mayo by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie
Chapter 10 Cromwellian County Mayo by John Cunningham
Chapter 11 The politics of Protestant ascendancy in County Mayo 1600-1830 by James Kelly
Chapter 12 ‘The most important town in Mayo’: Local government in Ballina since 1723 by Matthew Potter
Chapter 13 Distinguished visitors to Mayo 1776-1905 by Richard Davis
Chapter 14 In pursuit of a people’s hero. Remembering Father Manus Sweeney and the Year of the French by Guy Beiner
Chapter 15 The Catholic Church and religious culture in nineteenth-century Mayo by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Chapter 16 Sources for the history of landed estates in County Mayo by Marie Boran and Bridget Clesham
Chapter 17 Representing the physical and settlement topography of County Mayo in the early nineteenth century: the
mapping and modelling of William Bald by Arnold Horner
Chapter 18 ‘Farewell to Kilkelly, Ireland’: emigration from Post-Famine Mayo by Gerard Moran
Chapter 19 A Polish Count in County Mayo. Paul de Strzelecki and the Great Famine by Christine Kinealy
Chapter 20 Parliamentary Elections in Mayo, 1800-1880 by John Coakley
Chapter 21 The priest and the miraculous cure at Knock of the political shoemaker’s daughter: religion and agitation in the early Land War by Eugene Hynes
Chapter 22 George Moore (1852-1933): the fictions of a Wild Goose by W.J. McCormack
Chapter 23 Michael Davitt and The United Irish League by Carla King
Chapter 24 An comhrá síoraí: cothú agus athnuachan na hamhránaíochta i Mhaigh Eo le Lillis Ó Laoire
Chapter 25 ‘For the love of the jersey’: an oral history of the GAA in Mayo 1884-2011 by Arlene Crampsie
Chapter 26 Protestantism in Mayo in the twentieth century by Miriam Moffitt
Chapter 27 John Dillon versus Eamon de Valera and John Dillon at the 1918 General Election: the eclipse of the Irish parliamentary party by Sinn Féin in east Mayo by Kieran Rankin
Chapter 28 The Dillons: a Mayo family in history by John M. Dillon
Chapter 29 Folklore collecting in Mayo under the auspices of the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1970) by Séamas Ó Catháin
Chapter 30 Fifty years of collecting folklife – the National Museum in Mayo 1947-1997 by Anne O’Dowd
Chapter 31 Folk tradition and oral history of Mayo landlords by Séamas Mac Philip
Chapter 32 Mobilising the Mayo farmers: The Land League and Clann na Talmhan compared by Tony Varley
Chapter 33 T.J. O’Connell (1882-1969): Pioneer of the Irish National Teachers Organisation and Labour Party leader
by John Cunningham and Niamh Puirséil
Chapter 34 Politics in Mayo 1922 to 2013 by Michael Gallagher
Chapter 35 ‘That feeling of special loss’: emigration and its perplexities in the autobiographical writings of Bill Naughton (1910-1992) by Liam Harte
Chapter 36 Tourists’ expectations and experiences in County Mayo by Mary Cawley
Chapter 37 Gaeltacht Mhaigh Eo an lae inniu: staidéar cainníochtúil by Laoise Ní Dhúda
Chapter 38 Select Bibliography by Ivor Hamrock
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