Re: Book Suggestions: Irish social history

Richard B Gorrie (rgorrie@uoguelph.ca)
Sat, 14 Jan 1995 10:28:48 -0400

An obvious place to start is with the relevant volumes of the Oxford New
History of Ireland, which have excellent bibliographies, usefully arranged
under subject headings. Another more recent survey of historical
geography which will contain more up to date references is Graham and
Proudfoot, listed below.=20

I also include below some additional material from my own period (16th and=
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17th centuries) which may be of some use, but may in some cases be a bit=20
too detailed.
You are, incidentally right about the lack of good material on the social=
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history of Ireland.

T.C. Barnard, 'The political, material and mental culture of the Cork=20
settlers, 1650-1700', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G. Buttimer (ed.),=20
Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an=
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Irish county (Dublin, 1993) =20
N.P. Canny, 'The permissive frontier: social control in English=20
settlements in ireland and Virginia, 1550-1650', in K.R. Andrews, N.P.=20
Canny and P.E.H. Hare (ed.), The westward enterprise: English activities=20
in Ireland, the Atlantic and America 1450-1650 (Liverpool, 1978) =20
N.P. Canny, The upstart earl: a study of the social and mental world of=20
Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, 1566-1643 (Cambridge, 1982). =20
N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions as a source for the writing of social=20
history: County Cork as a case study', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G.=20
Buttimer (ed.), Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on=20
the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993) =20
N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions: a source for cultural and social=20
history' in History Ireland, i,4 (1993), pp 52-55.
Donal Cregan, 'The=B7social=B7and cultural background of a=20
counter-reformation=B7episcopate', in Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney=20
(ed.), Studies in Irish history presented to R.Dudley Edwards (Dublin,=20
1979) =20
L.M. Cullen, 'Population trends in seventeenth century Ireland' in=20
Economic and Social Review, vi (1975),
D.M. Dickson, Cormac O Grada and Stuart Daultrey, 'Hearth tax, household=20
size and Irish population change 1672-1821' in Proceedings of the Royal=20
Irish Academy, Sect. C, lxxxii (1982), pp 125-81.
P.J. Duffy, 'The evolution of estate properties in south Ulster=20
1600-1900', in W.J. Smith and Kevin Whelan (ed.), Common ground: essays=20
on the historical geography of Ireland (Cork, 1988) =20
Raymond Gillespie, 'Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland'=20
in Journal of Irish Economic and Social History, xi (1984), pp 5-18.
Raymond Gillespie, 'Funerals and society in early seventeenth century=20
Ireland' in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, cxv=20
(1985),=20
B.J. Graham and L.J. Proudfoot, An historical geography of Ireland=20
(London, 1993). =20
J.M. Graham, 'Rural society in Connacht, 1600-1640', in Nicholas Stephens=
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and R.E. Glasscock (ed.), Irish geographical studies in honour of E.Estyn=
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Evans (Belfast, 1970) =20
Anne Laurence, 'The cradle to the grave: English observations of Irish=20
social customs in the seventeenth century' in The Seventeenth Century,=20
iii,No 1 (1988), pp 63-84.
Norman Vance, Irish literature: a social history. Tradition, identity=20
and difference (Oxford, 1990). =20
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