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Scottish Land-Names: Their Origin and Meaning $21.00
Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Baltimore: Heritage, 1998, (1894) reprint
Even in the briefest study of Scotland, it quickly becomes apparent that it is a
place richly populated with names borne of a language different from that of the
present day. Names like Blairquhan, Knockshoggle, Mollandhu and Ochteralinachan
spring up from a map of Scotland and produce in our minds a picture of highland
mists and claymore-wielding chieftains.
The fact is that every one of these place-names means something, and this work
presents six highly informative lectures which provide a thorough understanding
of Scottish place-names and the people, language, geography and history which
produced them. Beginning with a discussion of general principles of the study of
place-names, the author then explains the languages of Scottish place-names,
including the two main branches of Celtic speech, differences between Gaelic and
Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, Old Norse and Danish, and races such as the
Iverian or Silurian, the Firbolg of the Irish Annalists, the Ernai, the Picts,
and the Q Celts and the P Celts. Many topics are included, such as Norse and
Saxon loan-words in English, mixture of languages in Strathclyde and other
regions, relative antiquity of certain place-names, test-words for Gaelic,
Welsh, Norse and other tongues, effects of aspiration and eclipse, and much
else. Finally the author discusses the lesson of place names, that is, what they
illustrate about the former appearance of the country, animals now extinct,
vegetation and crops, succession of races, occupation and trades, crime and
punishment, poverty and disease and other aspects of the past. At the end of the
book is a very handy index of place names with their translations. If you've
ever been mystified or intrigued by the fascinating tangle of names found in
this area you will find this book hard to resist.
220 pp., Softbound, glossary, original place-name index, paper, (New Book)
In Search of Hamish McBagpipes: A Concise Guide to Scottish Genealogy
$16.50
Douglas Bruce Goldie.
Baltimore: Heritage 1992
This book was designed for people who want to learn more of their Scottish family history,
but have been confused or intimidated by other instruction manuals; the author allows you
to work more efficiently and accomplish more. In addition, the author describes how to
acquire the background knowledge of Scottish history and geography necessary for accurate
interpretation of records.
116 pp., Softbound, bibl., append., index, (New Book)
England
Hugh Montgomery-Massingfield, Ed. Dir.
Burke’s Genealogical Series; 1972.
Table of contents:
Editorial Preface
Special Articles
Gentleman’s Estate by Anthony Lejeune
The Origins of the English Landed Gentry by Marc Bence-Jones
The Landed Gentry: A Personal Synopsis by W. A. A. Wells
Narrative Pedigrees of the Landed Gentry
Index of Families in the 18th Edition
Index of Seats in the 18th Edition
Addendum
987 pages, hardbound, no d/j.; illus. with line drawings representing
heraldic arms; fair condition, missing pages 395-398 (ending with “Greenly
of Titley Court” and resuming with “Greenwood of Swarcliffe Hall”),
otherwise good.
The Surname Detectives $14.95 (List price $30.00)
Investigating Surname Distribution in England, 1086-present day.
Colin D. Rodgers
Manchester University Press 1995
(from the introduction) "From the author of the best-selling Family tree detective, this helpful guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname.
Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centuries. If you have one of the 100 or so sample surnames, the book maps out your surname distribution through the centuries. If not, you can still learn how to find out where your namesakes live now, how they have moved about the country through time, and how the name started out - quite probably in the
medieval period as a place name, a nickname or Christian name, or as a tame based on your ancestor's job (like Carpenter or Smith).
Colin Rogers finishes this fascinating book by showing how the distribution
of surnames can be studied irrespective of the size of the surrounding population, and reaches some interesting conclusions about which names are more reliable guides to migration since the fourteenth century.
The surname detective is a must for genealogists and surname study addicts, but it also has much to interest the professional historian. population geographer and geneticist."
Table of contents: List of maps, List of abbreviations, Glossary, Acknowledgements,
Introduction, Part I The modern distribution of surnames, Part 2 The distribution of surnames since the Middle Ages,
Part 3 The distribution of surnames in medieval England, Epilogue,
References and further reading, Appendices: 1 List of prefixes and suffixes, 2 Published name maps, 3 Source of names prior to 1700, 4 List of names studied for background,
Surname index, General index.
260 pages, 6x9 hardbound, new.
The Register Booke of Christenings Marriages and Burials in St. Dustan's Canterbury,
England 1559 - 1800 $150.00
Edited by J. Meadows Cowper
The Canterbury Press 1887
Has index of persons and places.
215 pages 9x12 hardbound, 1 of 106 privately printed copies, Cover is water damaged
Descriptive Inventory of the English Collection at
the
Genealogical Society of Utah (FHL)
$5.00
Number 3 Finding Aids to the Microfilmed Manuscript Collection of the
Genealogical Society of Utah
Arlene H. Eakle, Arvilla Outsen, Richard S. Tompson
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1979
Table of Contents:
Government Records: National, County, Local
Legal Records:
National, County, Local
Church Records: National, Local
Corporate Records:
National, Local
Personal Records: Personal papers, Manuscript Collections, Pedigrees,
Histories, Monument Inscriptions
Research Aids: General, Genealogical Society of Utah
London:
Government Records: City,
Government Records: Local, Legal Records: County, Church Records: Church
of England, Church Records: Nonconformist, Corporate records, Personal
Records, Research Aids
168 pages, 9x12 softbound, ex library, good condition.
The Genealogist's Guide $10.00
George W. Marshall, LL.D.
Guildford: Billing and Sons, Privately Printed, 1903
Catalogue of genealogies and reference works relating to families (mostly
British sources). Organized alphabetically by family.
880 pages, 6x9 hardbound, fair condition, a bit musty, ex-library with
stickers and stamps.
B & G
Irish Research
Irish-American Landmarks $18.00
(In print at $52.00) (new book)
John A. Barnes
Gale Research, 1995
(from the back cover) For three Centuries the Irish have maintained a special relationship
with America. At the height of the potato famine in the mid-19th Century, more than a
million Irish traded what little they owned for passage aboard coffin-ships, hoping that a
better life waited oil new shores. Treated as second-class citizens upon arrival, they
embarked upon yet another extraordinary journey to become a political, religious and
economic force in the United States. Author John A. Barnes, driven by his passion to
discover his own ethnic heritage, takes you to the sites and memorials of the Irish in
America.
Visit Michigan's Emerald Isle, where breakaway Mormon leader Jesse James Strang proclaimed
himself king Discover Doyle's Cafe in Boston-a century-old monument to two great
Irish-American passions: hospitality and politics a Find out how James Concannon, a native
of the Aran Islands, brought wine-making to California a Learn about Margaret Gaffney
Haughey, who rose from poverty to open orphanages and asylums in New Orleans and became
the first woman in the U.S. to be memorialized with a statue.
With a timeline and more than 100 photos, Irish-American Landmarks is certain to delight
anyone with an interest in the amazing story of the Irish in this country.
590 pages,
hardbound, new book
Irish Pedigrees, the origin and stem of the Irish Nation Vol. 2
$99.95
John O'Hart
New York: Murphy & Son 1915
Anglo-Irish, Huguenots and a short chapter on the Ulster Plantation.
948 pages, 7½ x10, wear on edges top and bottom spine and on leather corners
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the Irish American Cultural Institute.
Buy them all for $30.00 & 5.00 s&h
Éire-Ireland, Spring 1992, Index Issue
1966-1988 Vol I-XXVIII $10.00
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
A comprehensive index to 1966-1988
Preface and Introduction
Articles by Subject
Articles by Author
Articles by Title
Book Reviews by Author
Book Reviews by Title
220 pages, softbound, good condition, one corner of the page edges is
darkened.
Éire-Ireland, Summer 1992, XXVII:2 $5.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
Irish Culture and the War Between the States:
Paddy McGann and Gone With the Wind by James P. Cantrell
Unattainable Alternatives: The Writing of Mervyn Wall by José Lanters
"No Freight Paid So Well": Irish Emigration to Pennsylvania on
the Eve of the American Revolution by Leroy V. Eid
Allegories of Dual Citizenship: Seamus Heaney’s The Haw Lantern by
John F. Desmond
Irish Immunity to Witch-Hunting, 1534-1711" by Elwyn C.
Lapoint
Naming the Characters of Synge’s: Playboy of the Western World by
Mitsuhiko Ito
Current Themes
Treasure Hunting in Ireland by Eamonn P. Kelly
Books and Authors
Wealth, Gender, Politics: Three Views of The Field Day Anthology of
Irish Writing by John C. Greene, Patricia L. Haberstroh, Adrian
Frazier
Book Reviews
143 pages, softbound, good condition, one corner is creased, light
scratches on cover edge.
Éire-Ireland, Fall 1992, XXVII:3 $6.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
Tradition and Technology in Irish Publishing by Hugh Carter Donahue
Life Class: The Student Revolution at the National College of Art, Dublin
1968—71 by John Turpin
Dánta Ura: New Poems by John Montague
Piques in Darien: Anthony C. West and his American Publishers by Audrey S.
Eyler
"Who Fears to Speak of ‘98?": The Rhetoric and Rituals of the
United Irishmen Centennial, 1898 by Timothy J. O’Keefe
‘S’crap": Colonialism Indicted in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon by
Jacqueline McCurry
Current Themes: Irish Urban Policy in an ‘Anti-Urban" Society by
David O. Rafter
Books and Authors: Jack Conroy’s The Disinherited, 1933 by Jack Morgan
Book Reviews
Notes and Queries
144 pages, softbound, as new.
Éire-Ireland, Winter 1992, XXVII:4 $6.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
The Tudors and the Stewarts: American Ancestors of Charles Stewart Parnell
by Jane Cote
Athlone’s John Broderick by Patrick Murray
Dánta Ura: New Poems by Peter Fallon
Nelson Mandela’s Irish Problem: Republican and Loyalist Links with South
Africa, 1970—1990
by Richard Davis
"Handcuffs Off": Jack B. Yeats and Other Painters by Hilary Pyle
Sir Edward Sullivan’s Book of Kells and Joyce’s Finnegans
Wake by Vern Lindquist
The Politics of Comedy in At Swim-Two-Birds by Joseph Devlin
Acts of Union: Seamus Heaney’s Tropes of Sex and Marriage by Jonathan
Allison
Current Themes: The Illinois and Michigan Canal: Historical Archaeology
and the Irish Experience in America by Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Book Reviews
Notes and Queries
144 pages, softbound, as new.
Éire-Ireland, Winter 1988, XXIII:4 $5.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
The Great Famine And Its Consequences by Victor A. Walsh
The Fenian Invasion of Canada and John McMahon: Priest, Saint or
Charlatan? by Joseph A. King
Of Myths and Men: An Analysis of Molly Maguireism in Nineteenth-Century
Pennsylvania by Edward G. Quinn
Woodrow Wilson, Self Determination and Ireland 1918- 1919: A View from the
Irish Newspapers by Ronan Brindley
Terminal Interviews: Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and James Duval
Phelan of San Francisco (illustrations) by James P. Walsh
Sean O’Casey’s Time To Go: Celtic Sea God’s Discipline
Invades Irish Village (Illustration)
by Ronald Rollins
Books and Authors: Seamus Heaney :
Queasy Proximity: Seamus Heaney’s Mythical Method by Nathalie F.
Anderson
The Female in Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Poetics and the Poetry of The
Haw Lantern by Jacqueline McCurry
Poet, Poetry, Painting, and Artist in Seamus Heaney’s North by
Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
Facing North Again: Polyphany, Contention by Paul Scott Stanfield
Current Themes Introducing Ireland’s Field Day by F.C. McGrath
Book Reviews
160 pages, softbound, good condition, minor corner wear.
Éire-Ireland, Summer 1991, XXVI:2 $5.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
The Rise and Fall of the Protestant Nation, 1690—1800 by Thomas Bartlett
An Ball Uaigneach Seo: Attachment to Place in Gaelic Literature by
Robbie Hannan
Dánta Ura: New Poems by Michael Davitt
John Fitzpatrick, 1871—1946: American
Labor Leader by L. A. O’Donnell
The Tarot in Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan by Kathryn Sullivan
Kruger
Wake Homes: Modern Novels of the Irish-American Family by Catherine Ward
Current Themes: Natural Science and Irish Culture by John Wilson Foster
Books and Authors
"Orphaned Like Us": Memory in the Poetry of Thomas McCarthy by
James Naiden
Book Reviews
144 pages, softbound, good condition, corner wear.
Eire-Ireland, Winter 1991, XXVI:4 $6.75
Éire-Ireland is a quarterly journal of Irish Studies published by the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
Table of contents:
Breaking Camp: Notes on a Belfast Upbringing by Gerald Dawe
The Aristocracy of Ireland’s Ancien Régime by Francis G. James
Privileged Assimilation: Maria Edgeworth’s Hope for the Ascendancy by
Meredith Cary
The Autobiographical Occult in Yeats’s "The Second Coming" by
Jane Lindskold
Protocol and International Politics, 1928: The Secretary of State Goes to
Ireland by Francis M. Carroll
Locke’s Swoon: Francis Stuart and the Politics of Despair by Jerry H.
Natterstad
American Methodism’s Christian Advocate and Irish Catholic
Immigration, 1830—1870 by D. Gregory Van Dussen
‘A Local Human Intensity": The Clash of Oppositions in the Writing
of J. M. Synge by John Glendening
Books and Authors : Darrell Figgis’s The House of Success: A
Forgotten Historical Novel by Alexander G. Gonzalez
Book Reviews
140 pages, softbound, as new.
Eire-Ireland, Winter 1994 $5.75
Eire-Ireland, Summer 1994 $5.75
Eire-Ireland, Fall 1994 $5.75
Eire-Ireland, Spring 1994 $5.75
Eire-Ireland, Winter 1994 $5.75
British History Illustrated
British History Illustrated February/March 1977
$3.00 & $1.50 s&h
Table of contents:
Bell Ring in Britain by John Camp.
Royal Marines Part II, by Alfred J Martini.
A Most Unhappy Queen (Mary Tudor)
The "Victoria" and "Camperdown Catastophe. by Captain
Donald McIntyre
The Scottish Guard by Donald A C McGill (Faithfully served the Kings of
France for nearly 400 years but for the first 243 they belonged to the
Monarchs of Scotland.)
9x12 sofbound magazine.