Irish leaders and learning through the ages / Paul Walsh ; essays collected, edited, and introduced by Nollaig Ó Muraíle.

Author/creator Walsh, Paul
Other author Ó Muraíle, Nollaig.
Format Book
Publication InfoDublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2003.
Description636 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Early Leinster, and Meath, Province and Diocese -- Leinster states and kings in Christian times -- Short annals of Leinster -- Prehistoric Meath -- The ancient boundaries and tribes of Meath -- Ui Maccu Uais -- Meath in the Book of Rights -- Tethbae -- The Ua Maelechlainn kings of Meath -- How the diocese of Meath came to be -- Fragments of Meath history -- Connla and Conall Mageoghegan -- In Conall Mageoghegan's neighbourhood -- Antony Mageoghegan, bishop of Clonmacnois -- Janet Marward, 1562-1629 -- The Civil Survey of Co. Meath -- The Plunket family -- The kin of Oliver Plunket -- Gaelic genealogies of the Plunkets -- Early and Early Modern Connacht -- Christian kings of Connacht -- Connacht in the Book of Rights -- James Blake of Galway -- Maolmordha Mac Suibhne -- Addresses to Tibbot na Long -- People and Places -- Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames -- Some details of the Dillons -- Some Norman surnames -- The Westmeath Leavys -- History of the O Dalys -- The surname Golding -- The nickname Mant na Mulchan (O Ruairc) -- Some placenames of ancient Meath -- Note on Magheradernan -- The topography of Betha Colmain -- Placenames in Vita Finniani -- The placename Ocha, Ochainn--Faughanhill, Co. Meath -- A couple of placenames from the vicinity of Kells -- Gerdlige, Girley, Co. Meath -- Cnoc Aiste, Co. Westmeath -- Tippermessan, Co. Meath -- Higginstown, Co. Westmeath -- Some Westmeath placenames in a fifteenth-century poem -- Mela Mor in Co. Kilkenny -- Some placenames from the O Clery Book of Genealogies -- Bothar Cualann.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography note"The writings of Paul Walsh":p. 573-582.
Issued in other formOnline version: Walsh, Paul, 1885-1941. Irish leaders and learning through the ages. Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2003
LCCN 2003284017
ISBN1851825436
ISBN9781851825431

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Joyner General Stacks DA910 .W19 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold