From Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart
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On the "Plantation of Ulster," in the reign of King James the First of England, the following English and Scotch families obtained extensive grants of the confiscated lands in Fermanagh, as given in Pinnar's Survey, A.D. 1619, quoted in Harris's Hibernia:—Sir James Belford, Mr. Adwick, Sir Stephen Butler, ancestor of the earls of Lanesborough; John Sedborrow, Thomas Flowerdew, Edward Hatton, Sir Hugh Wirrall, Sir John Davies, who was Attorney-General to King James the First, and a celebrated writer; Sir Gerrard Lowther, John Archdall, Edward Sibthorp, Henry Flower, Thomas Blennerhasset, Sir Edward Blennerhasset, Francis Blennerhasset; Sir William Cole, ancestor of the earls of Enniskillen; Sir Henry Folliot (now Ffolliot), Captain Paul Gore, Captain Roger Atkinson, Malcolm Hamilton, George Humes, Sir John Humes, and John Dunbar. Two or three of the natives obtained grants, namely—Connor (Mac Shane) O'Neill, 1,500 acres; Bryan Maguire, 2,000 acres; and Connor Roe Maguire, who obtained large grants, and was created baron of Enniskillen.
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From a sad, comfortless childhood Giles Truelove developed into a reclusive and uncommunicative man whose sole passion was books. For so long they were the only meaning to his existence. But when fate eventually intervened to have the outside world intrude upon his life, he began to discover emotions that he never knew he had.
A touching story for the genuine booklover, written by an Irish bookseller under the pseudonym of Ralph St John Featherstonehaugh.
Annals of the Famine in Ireland
Annals of the Famine in Ireland, by Asenath Nicholson, still has the power to shock and sadden even though the events described are ever-receding further into the past. When you read, for example, of the poor widowed mother who was caught trying to salvage a few potatoes from her landlord's field, and what the magistrate discovered in the pot in her cabin, you cannot help but be appalled and distressed.
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Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger
This book, the prequel to Annals of the Famine in Ireland cannot be recommended highly enough to those interested in Irish social history. The author, Mrs Asenath Nicholson, travelled from her native America to assess the condition of the poor in Ireland during the mid 1840s. Refusing the luxury of hotels and first class travel, she stayed at a variety of lodging-houses, and even in the crude cabins of the very poorest. Not to be missed!
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Henry Ford Jones' book, first published in 1915 by Princeton University, is a classic in its field. It covers the history of the Scotch-Irish from the first settlement in Ulster to the American Revolutionary period and the foundation of the country.
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