James Hardiman

Hardiman, James, a distinguished Irish writer, a lawyer, probably a native of Galway, was born about the end of the 18th century. His important work, The History of Galway, 4to., with plates, appeared in Dublin in 1820; his Irish Minstrelsy, 2 vols. 8vo., in London in 1831; Statute of Kilkenny, 4to. 1843; and in 1846 he edited O'Flaherty's West or H-Iar Connaught for the Irish Archaeological Society. He was a prominent member of the Royal Irish Academy, and was for some time sub-commissioner on the public records: he spent the latter part of his life in Galway as librarian to the Queen's College, and died in 1855, probably in November.

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15. Athenaeum, The—Principally referred to under No. 233.

233. Manuscript and Special Information, and Current Periodicals.