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Editors: William Nolan is lecturer in Geography, University College, Dublin. Padraig G. Lane

Description

The thirteenth volume in the Irish County History Series and consists of twenty-six essays ranging over a variety of themes dealing with the county and its territorial precursors from earliest to modern times. Contributors are from a variety of disciplines. Some come from Laois and all share an interest in the county's

Contents:

Laois: An overview ot the county by John Feehan

Iron Age discoveries at Ballydavis by Valerie Keely

Early History and settlements of the Laigis by Diarmaid O Murchadha

The Vikings and the Kingdom of Laois by Eamonn Kelly & John Maas

Timahoe and the Loigse: Monasticism by Elva Johnston

Hiberno-Romanesque and the sculpture of Killeshin by Roger Stalley

The impact of the Anglo-Normans in Laois by Kieran O'Conor

Early Urban Developments in Co Loais

The MacGiolla Padraigs of Upper Ossary, 1532-1641

The end of the Gaelic political order: the O'Moore lordship of Laois 1536-160

The English Settlers in Queens County 1570-1603

Local office holdings and the Gentry of the Queens County c1600-1750

Portarlington & the Huguenots in Laois

Bishop Daniel Delaney

Captain Rock in Queens County

Medical Charities in Queens County 1765-1851

James Fintan Lalor of Tenakill

The Land War of 1879-82

Government surveillance of subversion, 1890-1916

The Cuckoo in the cabinet: Kevin O'Higgins, republicanism and the conservative revolution

Politics in Laois-Offaly 1922-1992

Canon O'Hanlon historian of the Queens County

Country houses of County Laois

Portlaoise: genisis and development

(1999). Hardback; 748 pp, 94 plates, 35 figures

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