Ireland Local History books by county

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Antrim	Armagh	Carlow	Cavan	Clare	Cork	Donegal	Down
Dublin	Fermanagh	Galway	Kerry	Kildare	Kilkenny	Leitrim	Leix/Laois
Limerick	(London)Derry	Longford	Louth	Mayo	Meath	Monaghan	Offaly
Roscommon	Sligo	Tipperary	Tyrone	Waterford	Westmeath	Wexford	Wicklow

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Title: The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down
Author: A.T.Q. Stewart
Publisher: The Blackstaff Press, Belfast
Year: 1995
Lookup Volunteer: Gina Francis

Title: A History of Tuamgraney & Scariff
Author: Ger Madden
Publisher: East Clare Heritage
Year: 2000

Title: Antiquities of County Clare
Author: O'Donovan & Curry
Publisher: Clasp Press
Year: 1997

Title: Bunratty, Rebirth of a Castle
Author: Bernard Share
Publisher: Brandon Book Publishers
Year: 1995

Title: County Clare, A History and Topography
Author: Samuel Lewis
Publisher: Clasp Press
Year: 1995 reprinted, originally printed 1837

Title: Diocese of Killaloe in the 18th Century
Author: Ignatius Murphy
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Year: 1991

Title: Families of County Clare
Author: Michael C. O'Laughlin
Publisher: Irish Genealogical Foundation
Year: 2000

Title: Houses of Clare
Author: Hugh W.L. Weir
Publisher: Ballinakella Press, Whitegate, Co Clare
Year: 1999

Title: Kildysart and Environs; Some brief sketches of people, places and events
Author: John Daniel Garry
Publisher: Dangarry Publications Vancouver
Year: 2000

Title: The Ennis Compendium, From Royal Dún to Information Age Town
Author: Seán Spellissy
Publisher: The Book Gallery
Year: 1997?

Title: The Horse in Co Clare
Author: Kieran Sheedy
Publisher: unknown
Year: unknown

Title: The Merchants of Ennis
Author: Seán Spellissy
Publisher: On Stream Publications Ltd.
Year: 1996

Title: The Other Clare, Vol. 12
Author: various
Publisher: Shannan Archaeological Society
Year: 1998

The Strangers Gaze: Travels in County Clare 1534 - 1950
by Brian O'Dalaigh (Editor)

Micho Russell - Ireland's Whistling Ambassador: Tin Whistle Music and Songs from Doolin, County Clare

County Clare: a History and Topography
by Samuel Lewis

Clare : County of Contrast
by Sean Spellissy

The Antiquities of County Clare: Ordnance
Survey Letters 1839
by John O'Donovan

Street Dance Music from County Clare
Ennis Ceili Band

Ireland Of The Welcomes
Official publication of the Irish Tourist Board. Provides a unique look at the history and heritage of the country and its people.

Want to learn the Irish language - at your own pace?

Title: Bay of Destiny [Bantry Bay]
Author: Michael J Carroll
Publisher: Bantry Design Studios
Year: 1996

Title: Cork History & Society
Author: O'Flanagan & Buttimer
Publisher: Geography Publications
Year: 1993

Title: Lewis' Cork
Author: Tim Cadogan
Publisher: Collins Press
Year: 1998

Title: My Home by the Lee, History of Cork City
Author: Richard T Cooke
Publisher: Irish Millennium Publications
Year: 1999

Title: West Cork, A Sort of History, Like...
Author: Tony Brehony
Publisher: Kestrel Books
Year: 1997

Families of County Cork, Ireland
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Lewis' Cork: A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes,
Towns and Villages of Cork City and County
by Samuel Lewis, Tim Cadogan (Introduction)

Curious about your family's history? Find a complete, 100% accurate summary of your family's last name.

Title: Glenties and Inniskeel
Author: Liam Briody
Publisher: Donegal Democrat Ltd., Ballyshannon, C. Donegal
Year: 1986
Lookup Volunteer: Katy M
Families of Co. Donegal, Ireland

Title: The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down
Author: A.T.Q. Stewart
Publisher: The Blackstaff Press, Belfast
Year: 1995
Lookup Volunteer: Gina Francis
County Down, Ireland,
Genealogy & Family History, special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: Old and New Galway
Author: Peadar O'Dowd
Publisher: Archaeological Historical & Folklore Society
Year: 1985

Title: Marriages in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuam Ireland, 1820-1829
Author: Helen M Murphy & James R. Reilly
Publisher: Heritage Books
Year: 1993
Lookup Volunteer: Peter Greene

Title: To the Land of the Free from this Island of Slaves, Letters from Galway to America 1821-1823
Author: Henry Stratford Persse
Publisher: Irish Narratives Series, Cork University Press
Year: 1998
Lookup Volunteer: Gina Francis

Families of Co. Galway, Ireland the genealogy and family
by Michael C. O'Laughlin


Title: Landsdowne Estate in Kerry Under Trench Author: Gerard J Lyne Publisher: Geography Publications Year: 2001 Title: The Dingle Peninsula Author: Steve MacDonogh Publisher: Brandon Year: 2000	Families of County Kerry, Ireland by Michael C. O'Laughlin Over Four Thousand Entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation

Title: The Griese Valley & Beyond
Author: ed Barbara Sheridan
Publisher: Retsila Publications Ltd.
Year: 2003 County Kildare, Wicklow & Carlow Genealogy & Family History Notes
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: An Historical Survey of St. John's Kilkenny
Author: John Doyle
Publisher: not given
Year: 1990
Lookup Volunteer: Anne Josefski Co. Kilkenny Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: Diocese of Elphin, People, Place & Pilgrimage
Author: Francis Beirne
Publisher: Columbia Press
Year: 2000 Co. Cavan & Co. Leitrim Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: The O'Dempsey Chronicles...Lords and Chiefs of Clanmalier
Author: P.J. Goode
Publisher: P.J. Goode
Year: 2008
Lookup Volunteer: P.J. Goode

Title: A Pauper Warren, West Limerick, 1845-49
Author: Gerard Curtin
Publisher: Sliabh Luachra Books
Year: 2000

Title: Exploring Limerick's Past, A Historical Geography of Urban Development in County & City
Author: Patrick J. O'Connor
Publisher: Oireacht na Mumhan Books
Year: 1987

Title: Families of County Limerick Ireland
Author: Michael C. O'Laughlin
Publisher: Irish Genealogical Foundation
Year: 1997

Title: History of Limerick & it's Antiquities
Author: Cian O'Carroll
Publisher: unknown
Year: repub 1991

Title: Families of Limerick City
Author: Seán Spellissy
Publisher: unknown
Year: unknown

Title: Lough Gur & District Journal 2002
Author: Lough Gur Historical Society
Publisher: Historical Society
Year: 2002

Title: The Barony of Shanid, A History of Shanagolden, Foynes and Robertstown
Author: Thomas J Culhane
Publisher: Thomas J Culhane
Year: 2003
Lookup Volunteer: Sean Sheehan

The Families of County Limerick Ireland:
Over One Thousand Entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation (Book of Irish Families Great & Small, Vol 5)
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

An antique and storied land : a history of the Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough and its environs in County Limerick

A pauper warren : West Limerick 1845-49

Exploring Limerick's past : an historical geography of urban development in county and city

Poverty to promise : the Monteagle emigrants, 1838-58

Portrait of Limerick

Ireland Records - FreeTrial

Title: Colonisation & Conquest in Medieval Ireland, The English in Louth 1170-1330
Author: Brendan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: County Louth, A Guide and Directory
Author: George Henry Bassett
Publisher: County Louth Archaelogical & Historical Society
Year: 1886, reprinted
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: Dundalk-A Military History
Author: Joseph Gavin & Harold O'Sullivan
Publisher: Dundalgan Press
Year: 1987
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: Golden Memories of Another Day (Cooley Peninsula)
Author: Sean Boyle
Publisher: unknown, in Dundalk
Year: 1996
Lookup Volunteer: Anne McGowan

Title: John Bellew, A 17th Century Man of Many Parts, 1605-1679
Author: Harold O'Sullivan
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Year: 2000
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: History of Dundalk
Author: John D'Alton, Esq., J.R. O'Flanagan, Esq.
Publisher: Hodges, Smith & Co Dublin
Year: 1864
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: History of Drogheda, Vol 1 & 2
Author: John D'Alton, Esq
Publisher: by author
Year: 1844, reprint
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland

Title: Looking Forward, Looking Back - Stories, Memories and Musings of Castlebellingham, Kilsaran, Stabannon
Author: edited by Sean Boyle
Publisher: Liam Flynn Printing, Dundalk
Year: recent, not dated
Lookup Volunteer: Pat Garland
Irish Parish Records: Antrim, Down, & Louth

Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland :
The English in Louth, 1170-1330

Title: Achill Island
Author: Theresa McDonald
Publisher: unknown
Year: 1997, reprinted 2000

Title: Marriages in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuam Ireland, 1820-1829
Author: Helen M Murphy & James R. Reilly
Publisher: Heritage Books
Year: 1993
Lookup Volunteer: Peter Greene

Title: The History of the County of Mayo
Author: Hubert Thomas Knox
Publisher: Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd
Year: 1908
Lookup Volunteer: Lawrence Barrett

County Mayo, Ireland, Genealogy & Family History,
special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: Beyond the Big Bridge: A History of Oram
Author: Paula McGeogh
Publisher: Paula McGeogh
Year: 2000
Lookup Volunteer: Anthony Windrum

Title: The Book of Clontibret
Author: Brendan O'Dufaigh
Publisher: Brendan O'Dufaigh
Year: 1997
Lookup Volunteer: Anthony Windrum

Co. Monaghan Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes

Title: Diocese of Killaloe in the 18th Century
Author: Ignatius Murphy
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Year: 1991

Title: The Dear Old Town: A History of Ferbane
Author: Brendan Ryan
Publisher: not given
Year: 2003

Title: The O'Dempsey Chronicles...Lords and Chiefs of Clanmalier
Author: P.J. Goode
Publisher: P.J. Goode
Year: 2008
Lookup Volunteer: P.J. Goode

Kings County (Offaly) & Queens Co. (Leix-Laois) Ireland genealogy & family history notes

Title: Diocese of Elphin, People, Place & Pilgrimage
Author: Francis Beirne
Publisher: Columbia Press
Year: 2000
Genealogy and Family History Notes for Co. Roscommon, Ireland

North Roscommon : its people and past

Title: Constance Markievicz: The People's Countess
Author: Joe McGowan
Publisher: Markievicz Millenium Committee
Year: 2003
Lookup Volunteer: Joe McGowan

Title: Drumcliffe [Sligo]
Author: Stella Durand
Publisher: Drumlin Publications
Year: 2000

Title: Inishmurray: Island Voices
Author: Joe McGowan
Publisher: Aeolus
Year: 2004
Lookup Volunteer: Joe McGowan

Title: Sligo: Land of Destiny
Author: Joe McGowan
Publisher: Cottage Publications
Year: 2004
Lookup Volunteer: Joe McGowanV

Title: In the Shadow of Benbulben
Author: Joe McGowan
Publisher: Aeolus
Year: 1993, 3rd reprint 1999
Lookup Volunteer: Joe McGowan

County Sligo Ireland, Genealogy and Family History, special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: A Biographical Dictionary of Tipperary
Author: Martin O'Dwyer
Publisher: Folk Village
Year: 1998

Title: A Lamp Kindled - Sisters of Mercy & Tipp Town
Author: Denis G Marnane
Publisher: St Anne's Secondary School Board
Year: 2000

Title: A Tipperary Landed Estate Castle Otway
Author: Miriam Lambe
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Year: 1998

Title: Carrick-on-Suir and Its People
Author: Patrick Power
Publisher: Anna Livia Books, Blackwater Press
Year: 1976, 1979

Title: Diocese of Killaloe in the 18th Century
Author: Ignatius Murphy
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Year: 1991

Title: In and Out of Cahir
Author: Mary T Keane
Publisher: Kennedy Print
Year: n/a

Title: Land & Settlement, History of West Tipperary
Author: Denis G Marnane
Publisher: Ara Press
Year: 2003

Title: Oola-Past & Present
Author: various
Publisher: Oola Community Centre Committee
Year: 1998

Title: Records of the Four Tipperary Septs
Author: Martin Callanan
Publisher: Jag Publishing
Year: 1995, 1938

Title: The Great Famine in Nenagh Poor Law Union, Co. Tipperary
Author: Daniel Grace
Publisher: Relay Books
Year: 2000

Title: Tipperary Historical Journal 2003
Author: various
Publisher: Co. Tipperary Historical Society
Year: 2003

Title: Tipperary History & Society
Author: Nolan & McGrath
Publisher: Geography Publications
Year: 1985

Title: Tipperary's Tithe War 1830-1838
Author: Noreen Higgins
Publisher: St Helen's Press
Year: 2002

County Tipperary Genealogy and Family History,
special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Land, Politics and Society in
Eighteenth-Century Tipperary
by Thomas P. Power

A Long Way from Tipperary : What a Former Monk
Discovered in His Search for the Truth

The Cooper's Wife Is Missing:
The Trials of Bridget Cleary

A Tipperary Landed Estate:
Castle Otway 1750-1853
(Maynooth Studies in Local History)

Tipperary: History and Society
(County History and Society)

The Cistercian Abbeys of Tipperary

Knocknagow (Hibernia)

Ireland Records - FreeTrial

Ship Passenger Lists from Ireland to America: Miscellaneous Ships

The counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh & Tyrone
by Alistair Rowan

Title: Tyrone Precinct
Author: W.R. Huchinson
Publisher: Donaghmore Historical Society
Year: 1851, reprinted 2004
Lookup Volunteer: Peter Newman

North West Ulster

Title: Cappoquin: A Walk Through History
Author: Melanie O'Sullivan & Kevin McCarthy
Publisher: not given
Year: 2000
Lookup Volunteer: John Hartmann

Title: Down Memory Lane, The Memories & Stories of Joan Sansford-Kirby
Author: Joan Sansford-Kirby
Publisher: not given
Year: 1998
Lookup Volunteer: Eddie Cantwell

Title: The Great Irish Famine and After
Author: Doctor Rosaleen O'Brien
Publisher: Duffry Press
Year: 2008
Lookup Volunteer: Dr Rosaleen O'Brien

Title: History Guide & Directory of County & City of Waterford
Author: P.M. Egan
Publisher: P.M. Egan
Year: 1895
Lookup Volunteer: Nicola Jennings

Title: The Comeraghs' Fact & Fancy
Author: Séan Murphy
Publisher: Dungarvan Observer
Year: 1974
Lookup Volunteer: Eddie Cantwell

Title: The Way It Was - Ballinacourty, Ballinroad & Clonea - The Families & Their History
Author: Eddie Cantwell
Publisher: Modern Printers Kilkenny
Year: 2004
Lookup Volunteer: Eddie Cantwell
County Waterford, Ireland, Genealogy & Family History,
special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: Westmeath: As Others Saw It
Author: Jeremiah Sheehan
Publisher: by author
Year: 1982 Co. Meath & Westmeath Ireland Genealogy
and family history notes
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

Title: Arrogant Trespass-Anglo Norman Wexford
Author: Billy Colfer
Publisher: Duffry Press
Year: 2002

Title: The Great Irish Famine and After
Author: Doctor Rosaleen O'Brien
Publisher: Duffry Press
Year: 2008
Lookup Volunteer: Dr Rosaleen O'Brien
County Wexford, Ireland, Genealogy; Family History, special extracts from the IGF archives
by Michael C. O'Laughlin

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Title: Glenties and Inniskeel Author: Liam Briody Publisher: Donegal Democrat Ltd., Ballyshannon, C. Donegal Year: 1986 Lookup Volunteer: Katy M	Families of Co. Donegal, Ireland


Title: The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down Author: A.T.Q. Stewart Publisher: The Blackstaff Press, Belfast Year: 1995 Lookup Volunteer: Gina Francis	County Down, Ireland, Genealogy & Family History, special extracts from the IGF archives by Michael C. O'Laughlin


Title: The Griese Valley & Beyond Author: ed Barbara Sheridan Publisher: Retsila Publications Ltd. Year: 2003	County Kildare, Wicklow & Carlow Genealogy & Family History Notes by Michael C. O'Laughlin


Title: An Historical Survey of St. John's Kilkenny Author: John Doyle Publisher: not given Year: 1990 Lookup Volunteer: Anne Josefski	Co. Kilkenny Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes by Michael C. O'Laughlin


Title: Diocese of Elphin, People, Place & Pilgrimage Author: Francis Beirne Publisher: Columbia Press Year: 2000	Co. Cavan & Co. Leitrim Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes by Michael C. O'Laughlin

	The counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh & Tyrone by Alistair Rowan
Title: Tyrone Precinct Author: W.R. Huchinson Publisher: Donaghmore Historical Society Year: 1851, reprinted 2004 Lookup Volunteer: Peter Newman	North West Ulster


Title: Westmeath: As Others Saw It Author: Jeremiah Sheehan Publisher: by author Year: 1982	Co. Meath & Westmeath Ireland Genealogy and family history notes by Michael C. O'Laughlin


Title: Arrogant Trespass-Anglo Norman Wexford Author: Billy Colfer Publisher: Duffry Press Year: 2002 Title: The Great Irish Famine and After Author: Doctor Rosaleen O'Brien Publisher: Duffry Press Year: 2008 Lookup Volunteer: Dr Rosaleen O'Brien	County Wexford, Ireland, Genealogy; Family History, special extracts from the IGF archives by Michael C. O'Laughlin