The first volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive multidisciplinary study ever undertaken on Tipperary. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, placename scholars and historians of economics, culture and politics combine to provide an attractive account of this key region.
Features
Nineteen original essays by distinguished scholars place Tipperary in its local, national and European contexts.
Editors
William Nolan is lecturer in Geography, University College, Dublin.
Thomas G. McGrath is lecturer in ecclesiastical history, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
Readership
All interested in getting to know Ireland through its regions. Tipperary people at home and abroad. Suitable for both the academic and general reader.
Format/Extent
228 x 152 mm, 493 pp, 37 plates, 19 figures
Contents
Some reflections upon the local dimension in history
The archaeology of prehistoric Tipperary
The medieval towns of Tipperary
Parochial organisation in medieval Tipperary
The Norman period, 1185-1500
Gaelic landownership in Tipperary from the surviving Irish deeds
Property, patronage and population - reconstructing the human geography of mid-seventeenth century county Tipperary
An tÓr Buí: staidéar ar ghné de sheanchas Thiobraid Árann
The Whiteboy movement, 1760-1780
Aon fhile an leanúnachais - Liam Dall Ó hIfearnáin
The Catholic Church in County Tipperary, 1700-1900
Interdenominational relations in pre-famine Tipperary
Patterns of living in Tipperary, 1750-1850
Tipperary representation at Westminster, 1801-1918
Landholding and settlement in County Tipperary in the nineteenth century
Fr David Humphreys and New Tipperary
Joseph K. Bracken, GAA founder, fenian and politician
County Tipperary: class struggle and national struggle, 1916-1924
Planning in Tipperary: A view of the South Riding, 1964-1984
County Tipperary: History & Society back cover photograph
