9780906602010 - Tracing the Past: Sources for Local Studies in the Republic of Ireland von Nolan, William (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. The study is divided into 9 chapters. The development and utilzation of our more important administrative divisions, such as the provinces, counties, baronies and parishes are examined in the second chapter Chapter three attempts to summarize the lingering impressions of the early inhabitants on the landscape through enumerating some of the surviving sources and traces. Two chapters four and five are devoted to a consideration of the significance of seventeenth century sources. Chapter six reviews the materials available for the study of the eighteenth century In chapter seven the data for the first half of the nineteenth century is surveyed and chapter eight looks specifically at sources concerning land in the period from 1850-1900. The last chapter pinpoints some of the problems in writing local studies and suggests a possible framework. It also includes a section on the major source repositories such as, for example, the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.