Sligo History and Society
Geography Publications are delighted to announce the most recent publication in the History and Society series, Sligo History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County. This volume, edited by William Nolan and Kieran O’Connor, will be launched on Tuesday 17 December at 7pm in the City Hall, Quay Street, Sligo.
Chapters:
1. Mary Gilmartin (NUIM), The Personality of Sligo.
2. Martin Timoney (Archaeologist and Independent Scholar), Sligo: A Landscape Full of Monuments.
3. Noel McCarthy (NUI Galway), The Neolithic period in the Sligo
4. Carleton Jones (NUI Galway), People and Power in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age County Sligo, c. 2500–1500 BC.
5. John Waddell (NUI Galway), Later prehistory in Sligo.
6. Rachel Moss (TCD) and Tamlyn McHugh (Archaeologist, NMS), The Inishmurray and Kilmacannon cross-inscribed stones.
7. Kieran O’Conor (NUI Galway), The Anglo-Normans in Co. Sligo.
8. Yvonne McDermott (ATU), Late medieval friaries in Sligo: History and architecture.
9. Karena Morton, Late medieval wall paintings in Court Abbey, Co. Sligo.
10. Nollaig Ó Muraíle (NUI Galway), The Irish Manuscript Tradition of County Sligo.
11. Jack Johnston (Independent Scholar), Scots Settlement and Presbyterianism in Sligo, 1600-2010.
12. Brendan Scott (Historian and Independent Scholar), Sligo, 1640-41.
13. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway), War in the Gap: Sligo 1641-91.
14. Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich (The Placenames Branch), Sligo Placenames.
15. David Fleming (UL), The early modern economy of Sligo.
16. David Dickson (TCD), The town of Sligo and its hinterland 1760-c.1840.
17. Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (DCU), The Irish language in Sligo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
18. Tom Bartlett (Aberdeen University), The O’Haras of Annaghmore in the eighteenth century.
19. Patrick E. O’Brien, Castledargan – a middle-sized Sligo landed estate.
20. Marie Boran and Brigid Clesham (NUI Galway), Landed estates in County Sligo 1700-1914: archival and printed sources.
21. Mary B. Timoney (Archaeologist and Independent Scholar), The Decorated Box-tombs of the Skreen, Co. Sligo, School of Stone Masons c.1780-c.1850, with further evidence from Achonry.
22. Perry McIntyre and Richard Reid (Australia), The Tighe family of Heapstown Co. Sligo, separated 1831: reunited 1858.
23. Gerard Moran (Historian and Independent Scholar), A Landlord’s Response to the Great Famine: Sir Robert Gore Booth and his Assisted Emigration Scheme.
24. Thomas Power (Wycliffe Institute, Toronto), The Palmerston estate improvement and assisted emigration before 1850.
25. Jonathan Cherry (DCU), County Sligo’s landed families: an introduction to their estates, big houses and demesnes.
26. Fiona Gallagher (Historian and Independent Scholar), Sligo: Progress and Poverty. The County Town during the Victorian Era.
27. Aideen Ireland (Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), From Antiquary to Archaeologist: The pursuit of collections in Sligo in the nineteenth century.
28. Miriam Moffitt (NUIM), Sectarianism in Sligo in the era of Emancipation and Reform: Archdeacon O’Rorke’s histories re-visited.
29. R. F. Foster (Oxford University), The Yeats family and Sligo.
30. Charles Travis (Trinity College Dublin), Ghost Seer of the West: B. Yeats and the Spectral Geographies of Sligo.
31. Gregory Daly (Traditional Musician and Independent Scholar), Transcending the limits of our time, traditional music in County Sligo – a historical review.
32. Michael Farry (Independent Scholar), From Home Rule crisis to Civil War – Sligo 1912-23.
33. Anne O’Dowd (National Museum of Ireland), Folklife objects from Sligo.
34. Proinnsias Breathnach (NUIM), Historical evolution of the creamery system in County Sligo.
35. Mary Cawley (NUI Galway), County Sligo’s population and economy in context 2006-2022.
ISBN: 978 0906602 676
Extent: c.900 pages; 150 illustrations
Publication: December 2024
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