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Description

The twelfth volume in the Irish County History Series. This is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary study ever undertaken on Derry. Archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, and historians of economics, culture and politics combine to provide an attractive account of this key region

Content

Great undertakings in the County of Coleraine by Sam Burnside

Introduction

Microliths, megaliths, beakers and bronze - The Prehistoric archaeology of County Londonderry, 7,000-400BC

County Derry in the Early Historic Period

Derry, Iona, England and the Governance of the Columban Church

Tir Eoghain 'North of the Mountain'

Derry Diocese on the eve of the Plantation

The Fishmongers' Company and the Plantation

The Legacy of John Bramhall as Laud's Alter-Eg

The Lagan Arm and the First Siege of Derry, 1649

Londonderry and Coleraine: walled towns, epitome or exception

The City of Londonderry: demographic trends and socio-economic characteristics, 1650-1900

The Cromwellian and Restoration land settlement, 1640-1685

The sad fate of the besiegers of Derry

The O'Kanes - recently discovered poems

The Siege: Its history and legacy, 1688-1889

Landscape development in north-west and south-east Derry, 1700-1840

Changing farming methods in County Derry

Catholic and Protestant relations in Derry in the episcopacy of Charles O'Donnell, 1798-1823

Emigration from Derry: A study in source-materials

Food and Famine: diet in County Londonderry, 1820-1860

Contradiction and diversity: The musical life of Derry in the 1830s

Religious residential segregation in urban County Derry, 1831-1991: A study of variation in space and time

Aspects of Poor Law and Workhouse administration in Derry, 1838-1948

The Broighter Hoard: A question of ownership

Radical Nationalist activities in County Derry, 1900-1921

Seamus Heaney: an interpretation

Nationalist politics in Derry, 1945-1969

Housing and conflict: social change and collective action in Derry in the 1960s

'Our Magee Problem': Stormont and the second university

Editor: Gerard O'Brien. Hardback.

Others in this series:

Vol 1. County Tipperary

Vol 2. County Wexford

Vol 3. County Kilkenny

Vol 4. County Waterford

Vol 5. County Dublin

Vol 6. County Cork

Vol 7. County Wicklow

Vol 8. County Donegal

Vol 9. County Galway

Vol 10. County Down

Vol 11. County Offaly

Vol 12. County Derry & Londonderry

Vol 13. County Laois

Vol 14. County Tyrone

Vol 15. County Armagh