Birr the Monastic City
Birr the Monastic City

Author: Geraldine Carville

Publisher: Irish Books & Media

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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St. Brendan of Birr established a monastary near the area where the present town of Birr is located in County Offaly. This book not only tells of his life, but of the early history of Celtic and Catholic Ireland. Birr in ancient Irish means "water cress."

Irish Migrants in the Canadas
Irish Migrants in the Canadas

Author: Bruce S. Elliott

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780773523210

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"This new, expanded edition of Irish Migrants in the Canadas traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who came to Canada between 1815 and 1855. This study has important implications for our understanding of nineteenth-century society in Ireland, Canada, and the United States."--Jacket.

A New Anatomy of Ireland
A New Anatomy of Ireland

Author: Toby Christopher Barnard

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780300101140

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What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-17th and the late-18th centuries? Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this formative period.