Research Catalog

Title

Down : history & society / editor, Lindsay Proudfoot.

Publication

Dublin : Geography Publications, c1997.

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Additional Authors

Proudfoot, L. J. (Lindsay J.)

Description

xxvi, 698 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county

Subject

• Down (Northern Ireland) > History
• Down (Northern Ireland) > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 663-673) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Down in prehistory / Jim Mallory and Barrie Hartwell -- Farming and food in medieval Lecale / Finbar McCormick -- The early church in County Down to the twelfth century / Anne Hamlin -- St. Finnian of Movilla : Briton, Gael, ghost? / David N. Dumville -- Lives of St. Finnian of Movilla : British evidence / Ingrid Sperber -- County Down in the later Middle Ages / Tom McNeill -- The diocese of Dromore on the eve of Tudor reformation / Henry A. Jefferies -- The social world of County Down in the seventeenth century / Raymond Gillespie -- The Magennis Lordship of Iveagh in the early modern period, 1534 to 1691 / Harold O'Sullivan -- Landownership and improvement ca. 1700 to 1845 / Lindsay Proudfoot -- Trees and woodlands of County Down / Roy Tomlinson -- Rebels and radicals : the United Irishmen in County Down / Nancy Curtin -- Landowners and parliamentary elections in County Down, 1801-1921 / Brian Walker -- The provision and practice of prison reform in County Down, 1745-1894 / Caroline Windrum -- The Great Famine in County Down / James Grant -- Population change in County Down, 1841-1911 / Leslie Clarkson -- The herring industry in County Down, 1840-1940 / Vivienne Pollock -- The Irish language in County Down / Ciarán Devine -- Religion and society : Protestantism in nineteenth-century County Down / Myrtle Hill -- The catholic chapel and the catholic community : observance and tradition in nineteenth-century County Down / Oliver Rafferty -- Beliefs in County Down folklore / Anthony D. Buckley -- Rural paths of capitalist development : class formation, paternalism and gender in County Down's linen industry / Marilyn Cohen -- Communications in County Down / Fred Hamond -- East Belfast and the suburbanistion of north-west County Down in the nineteenth century / Stephen Royle and T.J. Campbell -- A select historical bibliography of County Down / Caroline Windrum.

ISBN

0906602807

LCCN

^^^97226223^

OCLC

• 37726312
• SCSB-10606303

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library