Stories from Gaelic Ireland : microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals /

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Author / Creator:Cunningham, Bernadette.
Imprint:Dublin : Four Courts, c2003.
Description:224 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5038034
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Other authors / contributors:Gillespie, Raymond.
ISBN:1851827471 (hbk.) : £30.00
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sources and Methods
  • 1. Getting and spending: the political economy of the Mac Diarmada lordship, 1549
  • 2. The dispossession of MacCostello: land and lineage in Mayo, 1586
  • 3. The murder of a historian: lineage, learning and morality in Fermanagh, 1534
  • 4. The burning of Domnach Magh da Claine: church and sanctity in the diocese of Clogher, 1508
  • 5. A world of wonders: marvels and prodigies in the diocese of Elphin, 1588
  • 6. Remembering Ruaidhri Mac Diarmadia: memory and memorialisation in Roscommon, 1568
  • 7. Sir Nicholas Malby's obituary, 1584: outsiders in the sixteenth-century Irish annals.