Carlow : history and society / editor, Thomas McGrath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGrath, Thomas.

Series:

Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlow (Ireland : County)--History.

Carlow (Ireland : County)--Social life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Carlow (Ireland : County)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 1070 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Geography Publications, [2008]

Contents:

Michael Conry, The personality of Carlow : landscape and people

Gillian F. Barrett, The archaeology of County Carlow : an aerial perspective

Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Agha church : architectural iconography and building ambiguities

Máire de Paor, St. Moling, contemplative Christianity and the medieval landscape of south Carlow : biblical style in the poem Gáir na Gairbhe

Michael O'Neill, The medieval churches and Old Leighlin Catherdral in County Carlow

Adrian Empey, The liberty and counties of Carlow in the high middle ages

Linda Doran, Medieval settlement hierarchy in Carlow and the 'Carlow corridor@ 1200-1550

Colum Kenny, New Leighlin : an Anglo-Norman settlement

Margaret Murphy, Tullow - from medieval manor to market town

Kevin Down, Agriculture and the manorial economy in County Carlow in the late thirteenth century

Emmett O'Byrne, 'A divided loyalty' : the MacMurroughs, the Irish in Leinster and the crown of England 1340-1420

Philomena Connolly, 'The head and comfort of Leinster' : Carlow as the administrative capital of of Ireland, 1361-1394

Robert MacCarthy, The Church of Ireland in County Carlow, 1549 - 2000

William Nolan, County Carlow 1641 - 1660 : geography, landscape and society

Catherine Ann Power, The origins and development of Bagenalstown, c. 1680 - 1920

Carlow town and its hinterland in the eighteenth century

Donal McCartney, Parliamentary representation and electoral politics in Carlow

John McEvoy, The Carlow College priest - from Australia to the Americas

Maura Duggan, United Irishmen, Orangemen and the 1798 rebellion in County Carlow

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, Ceatharlach i 1798 - nua amharc ar na staraithe

Thomas McDonnell, Thomas A. Cobden, 1794 - 1842 : an architect in County Carlow

Fearghus Ó Fearghail, Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran of Leighlinbridge, 1830 -1911

Eva Ó Cathaoir, The Poor Law in County Carlow, 1838 - 1923

R. Timothy Campbell ; Stephen A. Boyle, The country hgouse and its demesne in County Carlow

Jimmy O'Toole, The landed gentry in decline - a County Carlow perspective

Eileen McGregor, Edward O'Toole, 1860 - 1943 : Rathvilly schoolteacher and nationalist

Thomas McGrath, Politics, education and religion in the age of revolution : Bishop Patrick Foley of Kildare and Leighlin, 1896 -1926

Brian Donnelly, Local government in County Carlow, 1899 - 1970

Francis Devine, Pádraig Mac Gamhna, Paddy Bergin and Labour in Carlow

Caoimhín Ó Néill, An Ghaeilge i gCeatharloch - athbheochan agus athnuachan, 1972 - 2008

Thomas King ; Carmel Flahavan, Carlow history and society : a select bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 973-1001) and index.

ISBN:

9780906602386

0906602386

OCLC:

317624315