- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections
Irish Local and Family History
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
- Author(s):
- Kevin WhelanKevin Whelan
Despite its small size, Ireland is a remarkably variegated country, where the fusion of a diverse environmental base and a complex array of historical experiences has generated a variety of regions, each with a distinctive historical trajectory and inherited character. Because the country has only recently become urbanized, and because of the enduring role of its historical experience at the centre of its cultural and political life, Irish people remain intensely territorial. The sense of place and of ... ...
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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections