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An eagerly awaited book 'Mayo: History & Society' is due to go to press in the next few months. It contains 38 essays on Mayo's social history and archaeology. The publication is edited by two of Mayo's finest academics, Dr. Gerard P Moran of Castlebar and Dr. Nollaig O Muraile of Knock. It will be in the bookshops in Summer 2014. We will keep you posted as to its publication date.
Mayo: History and Society
Editors: Gerard Moran & Nollaig O Muraile
Published by Geography Publications, Templeogue, Dublin 6W
Publication Date: Summer 2014
Contents & Contributors
Chapter 1 Croagh Patrick, Mount Brandon and prehistoric mountain pilgrimage in Ireland : Modern myth or ancient reality? by Michael Gibbons
Chapter 2 The archaeology of east County Mayo by Bernard O'Hara,
GMIT
Chapter 3 The Céide Fields and Belderrig Valley: four score years of
research by Séamus Caulfield, UCD
Chapter 4 Early churches of Mayo by Chris Corlett, National Monuments Service
Chapter 5 Oidhreacht Ghaelach Chontae Mhaigh Eo le Nollaig Ó Muraíle,
NUIG
Chapter 6 The placenames of Mayo by Fiachra Mac Gabhann, Mayo VEC, formerly QUB/NUIG
Chapter 7 Croagh Patrick's early associations, Patrician and Non-Patrician by Pádraig and Diarmaid Ó Riain, UCC
Chapter 8 ‘The early history of Mayo of the Saxons' by Vera Orschel, UCD
Chapter 9 Medieval Gaelic families of Mayo by Emmett O'Byrne,
Independent Scholar
Chapter 10 The late medieval friaries of the mendicant orders in County
Mayo by Yvonne McDermott, GMIT Castlebar
Chapter 11 Manuscript cultures in early modern Mayo by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth
Chapter 12 Cromwellian County Mayo by John Cunningham, Univ. of Freiburg
Chapter 13 Sources for the history of landed estates in County Mayo by Marie Boran
and Bridget Clesham, NUIG)
Chapter 14 Traidisiúin na hamhránaíochta Gaeilge i gContae Mhaigh Eo le
Lillis Ó Laoire, NUIG
Chapter 15 Protestantism in Mayo in the twentieth century by Miriam Moffat, NUI
Maynooth
Chapter 16 The Catholic Church and religious culture in nineteenth-century Mayo by
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, NUIG
Chapter 17 In pursuit of a people's hero. Remembering Father Manus Sweeney and The Year of the French by Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Chapter 18 The politics of Protestant ascendancy in County Mayo 1600-1830 by James
Kelly, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
Chapter 19 Elections in Mayo, 1800-1880 by John Coakley, UCD
Chapter 20 A Polish Count in County Mayo. Paul de Strzelecki and the Great Famine
by Christine Kinealy
Chapter 21 Michael Davitt and The United Irish League by Carla King, St
Patrick's College, Drumcondra)
Chapter 22 ‘Farewell to Kilkelly, Ireland': Emigration from Post-Famine Mayo by Gerard Moran, NUI Maynooth
Chapter 23 George Moore (1852-1933): the fictions and confessions of a
Wild Goose by W.J. McCormack, formerly Goldsmiths' College, London
Chapter 24 ‘For the love of the jersey': An oral history of the GAA in Mayo 1884-2011
by Arlene Crampsie, UCD
Chapter 25 ‘The most important town in Mayo': Local government in Ballina since 1723 by Matthew Potter, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Chapter 26 The contest for Mayo in 1918: Eamon de Valera and John Dillon
by Kieran Rankin, TCD
Chapter 27 The Dillons: A Mayo family by John M. Dillon, TCD
Chapter 28 Folklore collecting in Mayo under the auspices of the Irish Folklore
Commission (1935-1970) by Séamas Ó Catháin, UCD
Chapter 29 Fifty years of collecting folklife - the National Museum in Mayo 1947-1997
by Anne O'Dowd, National Museum of Ireland, Castlebar
Chapter 30 Clann na Talmhan in Mayo by Tony Varley, NUIG
Chapter 31 Tourist's expectations and experiences in Co. Mayo by Mary Cawley, NUIG
Chapter 32 T.J. O'Connell: Labour TD and teachers' union activist by John
Cunningham, NUIG
Chapter 33 ‘That feeling of special loss': Emigration and its perplexities in the
autobiographical writings of Bill Naughton (1910-1992) by
Liam Harte, University of Manchester
Chapter 34 Gaeltacht Mhaigh Eo an lae Inniu: Staidéar Cainníochtúil by Laoise Ní
Dhúda, NUIG
Chapter 35 Folk tradition and oral history of Mayo landlords by Séamas Mac Philip
NMI
Chapter 36 Visitors to Mayo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Richard Davis,
University of Tasmania
Chapter 37 Politics in Co. Mayo in the twentieth century by Michael Gallagher, TCD
Chapter 38 Select Bibliography of Mayo by Ivor Hamrock, Mayo County Library
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