Byrne's Dictionary of Irish Local History: From Earliest Times to c. 1900

An extensive range of key local-history terminology - a must for all local historians.Covers a lot of terminology that is specific to use in Ireland and Irish English (including many familiar words but which have a particular meaning in the Irish historical context); as well as historical legal terminology; borrowings from Irish Gaelic; names of historical organisations; archaic occupational, religious, and other terms; names of various records and other works, with information on what they contain; historical land divisions and other jurisdictions; obsolete units of measure; etc., etc.Will be of considerable interest to genealogists as well as historians and history students, and also to readers (and writers!) of historical fiction. What was a mark? Livery of seisin? Letters patent? This remarkable Dictionary of Irish Local History will be able to tell you. Entries are fully cross-referenced and come replete with full biographical paraphernalia to enable readers to engage in further reading. Primarily intended for local historians, but the interconnectedness of the local and wider worlds is recognised by the inclusion of a range of entries relating to national institutions, religion, archaeology, education, land issues, lay associations and political movements. It is an indispensable work, which will enable local historians to make better sense of the evidence for the past. A one-stop resource for all local historians. This dictionary brings together, for the first time, in a single volume, an extensive range of key local history terminology from earliest times to 1900