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Donegal : the making of a northern county / Jim Mac Laughlin, editor.

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Other Authors: Mac Laughlin, Jim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Donegal (Ireland : County) > History.
Donegal (Ireland : County) > Social life and customs.
Donegal (Ireland : County) > Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Frank McGuinness
  • Introduction: the making of a northern country / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • Looking at landscapes / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • Anseo ag Stáisiún Chaiseal na gCorr / Cathal Ó Searcaigh
  • A naturalist's walking tour through Donegal / R. Lloyd Praeger
  • Titim / Pádraig MacSuibhne
  • The making of the physical landscape
  • Jim Mac Laughlin
  • The charms of Dongeal in the rain / H.V. Morton
  • On the empty shore / Seosamh MacGrianna
  • Blood and water / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
  • Tory Island / T.H. Mason
  • Fishing off North Inishowen in the 1880s and 1890s / W.P. Gaskell
  • The homes of Donegal / Sean MacBride
  • Island life / Peadar O'Donell
  • Fishing off Gola in the 1960s / Hugh Brody
  • Holidaying in Donegal in the 1890s / Stephen Gwynn
  • Ch. 2: From Gaelic overlordship to plantation landscape
  • Sharing the landscapes / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • The annals of the kingdom of Ireland
  • Colums Cille's travels and miracles / Manus O'Donnell
  • The monastery at Donegal in 1601 / Frair Monney
  • Doe Castle / Harry P. Swan
  • The capture of Ballyshannon / Hugh Allingham
  • The renaissance and the Late Medieval lordship of Tír Chonail, 1461-1555 / Darren Mac Eiteagáin
  • 'Outer' and 'inner' Donegal / A.G. Lecky
  • Country Donegal in the plantation scheme / George Hill
  • A walking tour in Donegal in 1752 / R. Pococke
  • The parish of Mevagh / Ordnance Survey Memoirs
  • Dunfanaghy's Presbyterian community / C.W.P. Mac Arthur
  • A Frenchman's tour through Donegal in 1797 / de Latocnaye
  • Working the land in Donegal in the late eighteenth century / James MacParlan
  • Ch. 3: The age of improvement
  • 'Progress' and 'improvement' in Donegal in the nineteenth century / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • The state of Donegal in the early nineteenth century / J.C. Curwen
  • Herring fishing and whaling off the coast of Donegal in 1776 / Arthur Young
  • Memorial of a Gweedore Schoolteacher / Patrick M'Kye
  • Farming and living conditions-Gweedore in the 1830s and 1840s / Lord George Hill
  • 'Progress' and 'superstition' in Donegal in the nineteenth century / S.C. Hall
  • A statistical description of Donegal / Edward Wakefield
  • A journey throughout Donegal in 1834 / Henry D. Inglis
  • Social change in Glencolumbcille in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Vincent Tucker
  • Illicit distillation in Inishowen / Brian Bonner
  • Recollections of improvements in West Donegal in the 1840s / Thomas Carlyle
  • The onset of famine in South Donegal / 'A Countryman'
  • Social class impact of the famine in Donegal / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • Female orphans from Donegal dispatched to Australia, 1848-1850 / May McClintock
  • Catholic male representation in selected occupations / Census of Population, 1881 and 1911
  • Displacement and dislocation / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • Down on the deal end / Patrick MacGill
  • Letters from a country vicar / Rev. J.L. Henry
  • The Arranmore Disaster / Peadar O'Donnell
  • Two letters to Packie Doherty / M. Doherty
  • Tráthnóna Beag Aréir / 'Máire'
  • The Derryveagh evictions / W.E. Vaughan
  • A letter from New York, 1861 / J.B. Sheil
  • Laggan Farm Accounts / Sean Beattie
  • An Lagán / Eoghan Ó Dónaill
  • Testimonies given at the Devon Commission, July, 1844 / Devon Commission
  • The hiring / Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher
  • A cabin in Cloghaneely / Míchéal MacGabhann
  • An unsuccessful journey / Patrick MacGill
  • Social conditions in Donegal in the 1890s / T.H. Tuke
  • On the tramp in Donegal before the Great War / Joseph Campbell
  • A Donegal Chaplin's Account of conditions at the front-line during World War I / Padraig MacGiolla Cearra
  • Ch. 5: Donegal and the New Ireland
  • The age of transition / Jim Mac Laughlin
  • Childhood memories from Northern Inishowen / Charles McGlinchey
  • Memories of Ballyshannon in the 1820s / William Allingham
  • Religious affiliations of the population of Donegal, 1881 and 1911 / Census of Population
  • The Glencolumbcille Mission / Laurence J. Taylor
  • Patterns of work, 1860-1914 / Desmond Murphy
  • Seamus / Eugenia Shanklin
  • Sheskinbeg / Elizabeth Shane
  • Ulster Scots and the native Irish in Donegal / John Harrison
  • Working life in West Donegal around 1910 / Lelia Walter
  • Collecting traditional music in Donegal in the 1970s / Allen Feldman
  • A letter from Dunfanaghy / Alexander Innes Shand
  • In Donegal in the 1920s / Padraic Colum
  • Touring off the beaten track in the 1880s / Seaton and Alice Milligan
  • Moville and environs / Michael Harkin
  • Catching a boat to Arranmore / Monk Gibbon
  • Letters from Donegal in 1886 / A 'lady felon.'

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