Pathways to Ulster's Past: Sources and Resources for Local Studies - Softcover

Collins, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853896933 ISBN 13: 9780853896937

Publisher: The Institute of Irish Studies, 1999

Synopsis

Physical description: vii, [5], 158p. : ill. ; 23cm. Subjects: Local history ; Sources. Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History, Local -- Historiography.

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From the Publisher

Sources and resources for local studies
A very useful guide to the sources for studying local history in Ulster. The text explains the historical units of administration in Ireland and includes a survey (by century) of the documentary and other sources. There is a special section dealing with the land issue of the nineteenth century. The third section covers record offices, museums and libraries inside and outside Ulster, with valuable information on their collections, opening hours etc.

Information is included:

Townlands, parishes, baronies, counties, poor law unions, state papers, surveys, yeomanry lists, poll tax returns, hearth money rolls, censuses, valuation records, ordnance survey, education records, magistrates reports, parliamentary commissions, land records, legal records, wills, church records, gravestone inscriptions, maps, directories, newspapers, journals, photographs and much more...

Dr Collins is an historian and former cultural traditions fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies and his publications include Nationalism and unionism: conflict in Ireland 1885–1921.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Institute of Irish Studies
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853896933
• ISBN 13: 9780853896937
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240