Bibliography of Older Histories & Historical Documents of Ireland to 1922 (up to 1978)

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  • A General History of Ireland, from the earliest accounts to the close of the twelfth century, 2 vols. (London: A. Hamilton 1778).
  • Armstrong, Olive Gertrude, Edwin Bruce’s Invasion of Ireland (1923)
  • Atwood, William, The history and reasons of the dependency of Ireland (London 1698).
  • Berry, ed., Statue Rolls, Ireland, Henry VI.
  • Borlase, Edmund, Brief Reflections on the Earl of Castlehaven’s Memoirs of his engagement and his carriage in the Wars in Ireland. By which the Government at that time and justice of the Crown since, are vindicated from aspersions cast upon both (1682)
  • Borlase, Edmund, Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England by King Henry II anno 1172, with some passages in the government; A brief account of the Rebellion anno Dom. 1641, and originals of the Universitie of Dublin and the Colledge of Physicians ... from a manuscript by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (London: Andr. Clarke for Robert Clavel 1675), 8o [Wing B3771]
  • Borlase, Edmund, The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion trac’d from many preceding acts to the Grand Eruption of the 23 of October 1641 and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement MDCLXII [1662] (1680)
  • Campion, Edmund, A Historie of Ireland (1571), into. RB Gottfried facsimile and reprints (NY:Scholars 1940)
  • Campion, Edmund, Historie of Ireland (Dublin 1633).
  • Campion, Edmund, Two bokes of the histories of Ireland, ed. AF Vossen (Assen:Van Gorcum 1963).
  • Carey, Mathew, Vindiciae Hiberniae, or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and Expose a Few of the Multifarious Errors and Falsehoods respecting Ireland […] particularly in the legendary tales of the conspiracy and pretended massacre of 1641 (Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son 1819).
  • Carr, Sir John, The Stranger in Ireland, 2 vols (London 1806).
  • Cassell’s History of Ireland (c.1900).
  • Curry, John, A Brief Account from the Most Authentic Protestant Writers of the Causes, Motives and Mischiefs of the Irish Rebellion on the 23rd October 1641 (Dublin 1752) [var. 1747]
  • Curry, John, An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement under King William. Extracted from Parliamentary records [...] and other authentic materials. By J. C. M.D. (Dublin: J. Hoey & T. T. Faulkner 1775).
  • Curry, John, Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in the Year 1641 Extracted from Parliamentary Journals, State Acts, and [...] the most eminent Protestant historians [...] in a letter to Walter Harris, Esq., occasioned by his Answer to a late Dialogue on the Causes, Motives, and Mischiefs of This Rebellion (London 1758).
  • Doheny, Micheal, The Felon’s Track (1867).

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  • Fitzpatrick, Thomas, The Bloody Bridge and other papers relation to the Insurrection of 1641 [i.e.] Sir Phelim Green, A S, History of the Irish State to 1014 (Macmillan 1925).
  • Giraldus Cambrensis, The Conquest of Ireland, trans. AB Scott and FX martin (RIA 1978).
  • Griffyth, W., Villare Hibernicum, being an exact account of all the provinces cities, etc. … which have been reduced by his Majestie’s armes since the first landing … with an impartial account of the siege of Limerick … Cork and Kinsale (1690) [BML]
  • Harris, Walter, ed., The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, revised and improved (Dublin 1739-64), and Do. [rep.] (Amsterdam: Da Capo Press 1971).
  • Haverty, M., History of Ireland from the earliest period to the Union, derived from our Native Annals, from the most recent researches of Eminent Irish Scholars and Antiquaries, and from all the resources of Irish History now available [n.d.; see endpapers Sir John Gilbert, History of the Viceroys, 1865).
  • Henry, Robert Mitchell, The Evolution of Sinn Fein (1920; rep. Kennikat 1970).
  • Hitchcok, Montgomery [Fr.], Types of Celtic Art and Life (London: Sealy Bryers & Walker c.1905) [pop. antiquarianism incl. essay-chapters on ‘Ancient Codes of Honour’, ‘The First Sex in Ireland’;’The Irish Bards’, as well as cromlechs, tombs, and towers.]
  • Hume, David, David Hume, The history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution of 1688, 8 vols (London 1823).
  • Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, together with an historical view of the affairs of Ireland, 7 vols (Oxford 1849).
  • Leadbeater, Mary, The Leadbeater Papers: The Annals of Ballitore (1862).
  • Lecky, W. E. H., A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 4 vols. (London: Longmans 1892-96) rep. abridged edn. edn., ed., & intro. L. P. Curtis Jnr (Chicago UP 1972)
  • Leland, Thomas, History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II with a Preliminary Discourse on the Ancient State of that Kingdom, 3 vols. (Dublin & London 1773).
  • MacAnally, Sir Henry, The Irish Militia 1793-1816 (Dublin 1949).
  • Mitchel, John, Jail Journal (1854).
  • Mitchel, John, The Last Conquest of Ireland, Perhaps (1860).
  • Myers, J.P. ed., Elizabethan Ireland; A Selection of the writing by Elizabethan writers on Ireland (1983).
  • Nicholson, William, the Irish historical library: Pointing at most of the authors and records in print or in manuscript which may be serviceable to the compilers of a general history of Ireland (Dublin 1724).
  • O’Conor, Charles, Dissertations on the Antient History of Ireland (Dublin: James Hoey 1753; rev. edn. 1766, 1812).
  • O’Halloran, Sylvester, An Introduction to the Study of the History and Antiquities of Ireland, in which the assertions of Mr Hume and other writers are occasionally considered (London/Dublin 1772; Ierne Defended (1774)
  • Payne, Robert, A briefe description of Ireland: made in this yeare 1589 (rep. Amsterdam:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; NY:Da Capo Press 1973).
  • Petty, Sir William, The Political Anatomy of Ireland (London 1691).
  • Plowden, Francis, An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion of that Country by Henry II, to Its Union with Great Britain on the First of January 1801 (London: C. Rowarth 1803).
  • Rei[l]ly, Hugh, Ireland’s Case Briefly Stated (1695) [num. reps.]
  • Richey, Alex G. A Short History of the Irish popel to the Plantation of Ulster (new edn. 1887), ed. R. R. Kane.
  • Spenser, E, A view of the Present State of Ireland, ed. James Ware (Dublin 1633; also Clarendon 1970).
  • Story, George, A true and impartial history of the most material occurences in the kingdom of Ireland (London 1691).
  • Temple, Sir John, The Irish Rebellion (London: R. White for Samuel Gellibrand 1646).
  • Ware, Sir James, The Antiquities and History of Ireland: The Life of Sir James Ware Prefixed translated and edited by Robert Ware (Dublin 1705) [see also under Walter Harris].
  • Ware, The Whole Works of Sir James Ware, ed. and trans. Walter Harris, 2 vols (Dublin 1739-64).
  • Warner, Fernidando, History of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland (1767; 2nd edn. 1768).b
  • Williams, J. [or E.], Irish Government from 1782-1800 (1879) [a work which won the Cressington Prize]
  • Williams, J. [or E.], Short History 1782-1800 ([London:] Ellis Hume 1912).
  • Williams, W[illiam] Ellis Hume, The Irish Parliament from the year 1782 to 1800; being the Cressingham prize essay, 1878 (Lon:Cassell &c 1879), 115pp.

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