County Louth Archaeological and History Society

Irish Historical Studies: Vol. XII, No. 46; Irish Historical Studies: Vol. XII, No. 47; IrishHistorical Studies: Vol. XII, No. 48Review by: J. P.Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1961), pp. 101-102Published by: County Louth Archaeological and History SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27729020 .

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REVIEWS 101

of eighteenth-century Ireland; but the local history for the period is well documented and there is a variety of sources, printed and unprinted, from which we can form a picture of a self-cont ained

society with an individual way of living that has many points of interest. Knights' Fees in

Kildare, Leix and Offaly are dealt with by Jocelyn O t way-Ruth ven. One of the agencies through which the people of Ireland were made aware of the French Revolution was the theatre, especially the theatre of Dublin. The leading producer of performances relating to the Revolution was

Philip Astley of London, whose first production of this type appeared in Dublin in 1789 and 1790 in the form of an extravaganza describing the fall of the Bastille. Throughout the course of the

Revolution he and his son, John, continued to provide Dublin audiences with this theatrical bill of fare and the Dublin theatre continued to reflect the trend of the times. John Hall Stewart deals with this in his article. Michael J. Quane writes about Carysfort Royal School, Co. Wicklow.

Finally, R. B. Aldridge continues to traverse the routes described in the story called "

Tain Bo

Flidhais," the punitive raid in the first century A.D. carried out by King Ailill and Queen Maeve of Connacht. These journeyings come to a conclusion in the 1962 number. In the 1962 number Liam de Paor describes excavations carriedout at Ballyloughan Castle, Co. Carlow, while a coin of Friesach found in Ireland some time before 1845 provokes D. M. Metcalf to speculate that it was brought here by a traveller from the Holy Land in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century,

perhaps from the Third Crusade. Kurt Ticher has a beautifully illustrated article on "

Bits and Pieces of Irish Silver." George Eogan contributes

" Some Observations on the Middle Bronze

Age in Ireland." Conor Fahy supplies some notes ou the friendship between James Caulfield, first Earl of Charlemont and the Italian writer, Giuseppe Baretti. Gear?id Mac Niocaill publishes a fragment from the Register of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Dublin. The road improve

ment at Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone, in 1959 yielded some very interesting archaeological finds which are dealt with by George Gillespie. Lastly, some interesting historical snippets are to be found under the heading

" Miscellanea."

JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY KILDARE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

i960, Vol. XIII, No. 8

This issue contains the Secretary's Reports for 1957, x958, 1959, the report of the Annual General Meeting, i960, together with the Balance Sheets for 1957, I95& an<3 1959. The reports shows that the Society is very much alive, and that the central position occupied by County Kildare is well employed for visitation of many places of historical and archaeological interest. Major

General Sir Eustace F. Tickell, K.B.E., C.B., M.C., continues his exhaustive survey of the Eustace

family and their lands in County Kildare; "

Fear Ceall "

studies Conntae an Riogh, King's County, with special reference to the territory known as Ely O Carroll; while Captain Cornelius Costello from many angles outlines some of the history and geography of Naas in the half-century before the Great Famine. Lastly, Mrs. H. G. Leask has a note on Harpur's

" Watering Engine

" for

bleaching linens at Leixlip; and J. S. Jackson, of the National Museum, has a note on a Giant Irish Deer whose remains were revealed during land reclamation operations about one mile north-east of Kilcullen.

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES

Vol. XII, No. 46, September, i960; Vol. XII, No. 47, March, 1961 Vol. XII, No. 48, September, 1961

In No. 46 there is a catalogue of material used in "

Calendar of documents relating to Ireland,

1171-1307." J. G. Simms outlines "

The Making of a Penal Law (2 Anne C.6) 1703-4 "?the Act to prevent the further growth of popery, the most notorious of the Penal Laws, as Lecky tells us. It was the most comprehensive. It covered changes of religion, the purchase and inheritance of

land, education, guardianship, employment, voting and pilgrimages. John F. Glaser studies the fall of Parnell from the vantage point of English non-conformity and, in doing so, re-examines the origin of the famous phrase

" The Non-Conformist Conscience

" and throws light on the

relationship of non-conformity and the Liberal Party in a critical phase of the Home Rule Move ment. There is a correspondence between Sir Henry Blackall and Mr. J. H. Whyte regarding the social background of the Members of Parliament of O'ConnelTs Repeal Party.

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102 COUNTY LOUTH ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

In No. 47 D. C. Savage, in an interesting article on the "

Origins of the Ulster Unionist Party, 1885-86," traces the origins of the movement which stands in the way of the unity of Ireland.

A. H. Graham, in "

The Litchfield House Compact," lets us in behind the scenes to observe some

intrigue between O'Connell and Lord John Russell following the election of 1835. While searching through the Bulmer Hobson papers in the National Library of Ireland in the hope of discovering little-known publications by Eoin MacNeill, Rev. Fr. F. X. Martin met a number of documents

by, or relating to, him. He took note of two memoranda which seemed of importance for an

understanding of the events of Easter Week, 1916 and in this number he has them published. In No. 48 F. G. James tells us that smuggling accounted for a significant proportion of Irish

trade in the first half of the eighteenth century. It follows that existing evaluations of Irish economic development in the eighteenth century, all of which draw heavily upon official Customs

records, must be considered inadequate. David B. Quinn throws considerable light on the policy and relations of Henry VIII towards Ireland.

Numbers 46 and 48 contain considerable sources called " Writings on Irish History," which

are very useful indications to students as to where they may obtain suitable historical reading material, while in Nunber 47, under the heading

" Researches in Irish History in Irish Univer

sities, 1960-61," we have a list of particulars of theses on Irish historical subjects or on subjects having a distinct bearing on Irish history which were successfully completed during i960 or were in progress in January, 1961, in the universities of Ireland, and which weiil, we hope, find their

way into learned journals. jp

H.A. BULLETIN

Published by Historical Abstracts. Vol. 7, No. 1. March, 1961

The H.A. Bulletin is published primarily to satisfy the needs for a personal copy of an

inexpensive reference quarterly on the part of scholars and students who are not able to subscribe to Historical Abstracts. It contains only those abstracts published in Historical Abstracts which are of general historical interest and which are classified under the headings of : 1. General Biblio

graphical Articles; 2. Methodology and Research Methods; 3. Historiography; 4. Philosophy and

Interpretation of History. j.p.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISLE OF MAN NATURAL HISTORY AND

ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

Vol. VI, No. 2. April, 1958 to March, i960

In "

Farm and Village at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century "?the 1959 Presidential

Address?J. W. Cowley nostalgically looks back at how the people lived in the Isle of Man sixty years ago.

" William Kennish, Poet, Inventor, Engineer and Explorer

" was the subject of the

Presidential Address, 1959-1960 by Mrs. G. E. Quayle. Samples of his poetry are given, many of his inventions mentioned, his engineering feats recounred, especially with regard to the Panama

Canal, and his explorations followed. Einar Brun tells of six months spent by himself and his wife

studying ornithology in the bird sanctuary of the Calf of Man. Neil Mathieson looks through the files of some early newspapers in the Isle of Man. W. R. Serjeant, writing of

" Hall Caine in

Manx Politics," says that though he made valuable use of his personal and political contacts in

England to foster Manx claims and keep them before the authorities, yet he was scarcely taken

seriously on the island and has left little, if any, impression, politically speaking, on the minds of the Manx people for the reason that the one absolutely vital requirement for the politician is

single-mindedness, a quality Hall Caine never possessed. B. K. Walton looks at the Manx Cat from many angles and though he always sees a stumpy tail, yet the animal is not descended from a rabbit or a hare but is really a tailless mutant of the species

" Felis catus." John C. Crellin

gives a short account of the farm and estate known as Ballachurry. G. E. Quayle describes a

variety of uses to wThich rushes were put in days gone by. Finally, N. Mathieson relates how a

Peel man, Henry Corrin, made the journey from the Irish Sea to the Caribbean, found a fortune and caused a lot of trouble to many people. The list of summer excursions shows that this Society believes in going places.

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