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Editor Lindsay Proudfoot

Description

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

Contents:

• Introduction (Lindsay Proudfoot)

• Down in Prehistory

• Farming and Food in Medieval Lecale

• The Early Church in County Down to the Twelfth Century

• County Down in the Later Middle Ages

• The Diocese of Dromore on the Eve of the Tudor Reformation

• The social world of county Down in the seventeenth century

• The Magennis lordship of Iveagh in the early modern period, 1534 to 1691

• Land Ownership and Improvement, c.1700-1845

• Trees and Woodlands of County Down

• Rebels and Radicals: the United Irishmen in County Down

• Landowners and parliamentary elections in county Down, 1801-1921

• The Provision and Practice of Prison Reform in County Down 1745-1894

• The Great Famine in County Down

• Population Change in County Down 1841-1911

• The Herring Industry in County Down 1840-1940

• The Irish Language in County Down

• Religion and Society. Protestantism in nineteenth-century County Down

• The Catholic chapel and the Catholic community: observance and tradition in nineteenth-century County Down

• Beliefs in County Down Folklore

• Rural paths of Capitalist development: Class formation, paternalism and gender in County Down's linen industry

• Communications in County Down

• East Belfast and the suburbanisation of north-west County Down during the nineteenth century

Hardback; 694 pp, 64 plates, 43 figures.

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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