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JGAHS Vol. 64 (2012) 

Christiaan Corlett: Cursing Stones in Ireland
Patrick Larkin: The Castles of Lough Derg: an Illustrated Survey
Eva Maguire & Michael Quinn: Galway's Medieval Heart - the history and Modern redevelopment of Kirwan's Lane
Joseph Mannion: Elizabethan County Galway: The origin and evolution of Tudor Local Government
Pádraig G. Lane: The Image in Fiction of 1798 in Connacht
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh & Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh: Business Records in Counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo
Seán Mac Giollarnáth: Seanchas Fola: Folklore from East Galway
Cathal Smith: The Ballinasloe Agricultural Reform in an Era of High Farming and Famine, 1840-1850
Edward Walsh: The Poetry of Canon Anthony Fahy O.P. (1805-71)
Ciarán Ó Coigligh: John Millington Synge, Baile Átha Cliath agus Oileán Arann
John Cunningham: The 1911 Irish Trade Union Congress in Galway

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 63 (2011) 

Marta Muniz-Pérez, Nóra Bermingham & Jerry O'Sullivan:  Archaeological Excavations in Treanbaun, on the M6 motorway.
Sue Zajac & Brendan Walsh:  A Bronze Age Round House at Killybrone, Killala, Co. Mayo.
Emily Murray, Michael Gibbons and Finbar McCormick:  An early medieval broken-dogwelk midden at Culfin, Connemara.
Paul Mohr:  The deBerminghams, Barons of Athenry.
Yvonne McDermott:  Rosserk Franciscan Friary.
Christopher McGinn:  Elizabethan coin found at Terryland Castle, Galway.
Bríd Mercer:  History of the Woodland Estate: 1550-1800.
Anne Carey:  St. Mary's Church, Hollymount, Co. Mayo.
James Mitchell:  The rescue of the passengers and crew of the Connaught, October 7, 1860.
Clark A. Colohan:  William Colohan: a Galway sea-captain in California.
Nollaig Mac Congáil:  Domhnall Ó Duibhne: (1863-1923) Gníomhaí Eiseamláireach Gaelach.
Philip O'Leary:  Lady Gregory and popular theatre in Irish.
Patrick Conlan:  A Galwayman in China - Mgr. Maurice Connaughton, O.F.M.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 62 (2010) 

Liam McKinstry  Burnt mounds at Doughiska.
Liam McKinstry  The excavations of a ringfort and souterrain at Kilcloghans, Co. Galway.
Philip McEvansoneya  The 'Ardrahan' Brooch.
Paul McNulty  The genealogy of the Anglo-Norman Lynches who settled in Galway.
Nollaig Ó Muraíle  The Ó Ceallaigh Rulers of Uí Mhaine - A Genealogical Fragment, c. 1400 Part 11.
Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin  The Lally Inventory.
Alf McLochlainn  Scéal i mBarr Bata?
James Roy  Four Irish miniatures of the Persse Family, Moyode Castle, Co. Galway (continued).
Paul Gosling, Sabine Springer, Moya Cannon, Joe Murphy  The grave of Eliza Murphy on Island Eddy, Co. Galway.
Pádraig G. Lane  Galway & Mayo fisheries in the mid nineteenth century.
Nollaig MacCongáil  Fíoradh na Físe Gaelaí?
John Dunleavy  'Turbulent Priest'.
Amandine Plantivaux, Arnaud Daron, Penelope Walker  Bee Boles at Moycullen.
Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill  Bobby Burke and the Tuam Parish Council of Muinter na Tíre.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 61 (2009) 

Emily Murray: Late Mesolithic shell midden at Tullybeg
Penny Johnston, John Tierney and Mick Drumm: A spade mill and lime kiln at Coololla
John Tierney, Farina Sternke and Penny Johnston: Early Mesolithic finds from Barnacragh and Urraghry
Jerry O'Sullivan: Killeen burial grounds in St. Laurencefields
Jim McKeon: The Dominican priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Athenry.
Tom Janes: Persse holdings in East Galway - excavations
Brian McCuarta: A presentment of Recusants, East Galway 1632
James Mitchell: The Catholics of Galway, 1708-13
Toby Bernard: A description of Gort in 1752
James Roy: Miniatures of the Persse family
Patricia Byrne: Brother Paul Carney (1844-1928)
Fidelma Mullane: Distorted views of the Claddagh
Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill: The O'Kellys of Creeraun - a postscript
Nollaig MacCongáil An Ghaeilge agus The Connacht Tribune

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 60 (2008) 

Martin Fitzpatrick: Archaeological Excavation of a Souterrain at Killaghmore, New Inn, County Galway.
Joseph Mannion: Tech Saxan: An Anglo-Saxon Monastic Settlement in Early Medieval East Galway.
Anne Carey: St. Coman's Church, Kinvara.
Nollaig Ó Muraíle: The Ó Ceallaigh Rulers of Uí Mhaine - A Genealogical Fragment, c. 1400 Part 1.
Gerald Power: The Viceroy and his Critics - Leonard Grey's journey through the West of Ireland, June-July 1538.
John Cronin: 'A Gentleman of a Good Family and Fortune': John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640-1685.
Ciarán Ó Murchadha: Letter to John Vesey, Bishop of Tuam, July 1711.
Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin: Fontenoy and Aughrim - A Recent Galway Connection.
Padraig G. Lane: The Tedious Business of Unwanted Tenants: Galway and Mayo in the 1850s.
Peadar O’Dowd: Holy Wells of Galway City
Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh: Cumann na nGaedheal, The Land Issue  and West Galway 1923-1932.
Desmond Travers: Soviet Military Mapping of Ireland during the Cold War: Galway and the Western Littoral.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 59 (2007) 

Karen Molloy & Michael O’Connell:

Fresh insights into long-term environmental change on the Aran Islands based on Palaeoecological investigations of lake sediments on Inis Oírr.

Joseph Mannion:

Vestiges of Celtic Mythology in the Placenames of Lough Corrib and its hinterland.

Colmán Ó Clabaigh:

The Mendicant Friars in the Medieval Diocese of Clonfert.

Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin:

Men of the West in the Galleys of France

Claire E. Lyons:

A re-discovered letter of Sylvester O’Halloran to Dr. de Salis, 1 February 1777.

Patrick Hogan:

The role of Connacht’s landed Gentry in the passing of the legislative Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland , in 1800.

Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill:

‘Full of the old Galway Spirit’ The O’Kellys of Creeraun and Cooloo.

James Mitchell:

Thomas Drane, Professor of Civil Engineering, Queens College Galway 1849.

Pádraig G. Lane:

Rentals and communities in Galway in the immediate aftermath of the Famine.

John Dunleavy:

Michael Davitt’s Lancashire apprenticeship.

Danny Denton:

On the truth of the ‘German Plot’.

Cian Marnell:

Social History and oral art – reflections on the collected folklore of Menlo, near Galway City.

Martin Jones:

Eating Out – prehistoric food preparation sites on the route of the Loughrea by-pass, Co. Galway.

Brendan Walsh:

A possible Viking Ship setting at Treanbeg, Co. Mayo.

George Geddes:

The Buildings of the Loughrea-Attymon Light Railway.

Maura Scannell:

‘The Rush Gatherers, Lough Corrib, Connemara, Ireland ’. A chromolithograph of a painting by J.J. Hill.

Graham Hull:

A mid-19th century view of Galway City.

Peadar O’Dowd:

Galway Golf Course Spandrel.


 

JGAHS Vol. 58 (2006)

Nollaig O Muraíle:

‘Dubtaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and County Mayo’.

Eoghan O hAnnracháin:

‘William O Shaughnessy’.

Patrick Hogan:

‘The Support of Connacht’s Catholic Hierarchy for the Legislative Union’.

Pádraig G Lane:

Connacht Agrarian Unrest in Fiction c. 1800-1850'.

James Mitchell:

‘Thomas Skilling (1793-1865): Part 2'.

Geraldine Curtin:

‘Archival Holdings of the Michael Davitt Museum’.

Kieran Waldron:

‘The Making of the Archbishops of Tuam’.

John Morrissey:

Ireland ’s Great War’.

Una Newell:

‘The Rising of the Moon: Galway 1916'.

Sean Mac Giollarnáth:

(Gerald O’Connor), ‘James Connolly’.

Susan Jones:

‘Alice Kinkead and the last Portrait of Conrad’.

Joseph Mannion:

‘The Seanchineoil and the Sogain’.

Graham Hull:

‘A Later Medieval and Post-Medieval Structure at Derrylea, near Clifden, Co Galway’.

Fiona White:

‘Post-Medieval Pottery’.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 57 (2005)

Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin:

A Galway Scion in India.

Denis Browne:

From Reaction to Reform: The Mellowing of a Connacht Squire – the Right Hon. Denis Browne, MP, (1763-1822).

David Synnott:

Marcella Gerrard’s Estate.

James Mitchell:

Thomas Skilling (1793-1865) Professor of Agriculture, Queens College Galway (Part1: His Career to 1849).

John Cunningham:

Lord Wallscourt of Ardfry (1797-1849): An Early Irish Socialist.

Ann Caraway Ivins:

Dick Dowling, Galway’s Hero of Confederate Texas.

Sean MacGiollarnáth:

Patrick H. Pearse: A Sketch of his Life.

Michael Gibbons & Myles Gibbons:

Hiberno-Norse Ringed Pin from Omey Fechín, Connemara – Its Historical and Cultural Setting.

Martin Jones:

Human Remains and the Ruins of a Dwelling at Tullagh Upper, near Loughrea, Co. Galway.

R.M. Chapple:

Tattooed Lady?: A Carved Stone Head from the Graveyard of Killogilleen, Co. Galway.

Ann Carey & Hugh Carey:

Architectural Appraisal of 6-8 High Street, Galway.

Brigid Clesham:

The Ritchie Pickow Photographic Collection.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 56 (2004)

K.R. Moore:

Historical use of Stone and Metal in Western Ireland.

Suzanne Zajac and Frances Scully:

Excavations on an Enclosure at Castlegar, Co. Mayo.

Anne Carey and Rosanne Meenan:

Excavation of a Post-Medieval Pottery Kiln, Tuam.

Bernadette Cunningham:

A Galway Hearth Money Roll for 1724.

Eoghan Ó hAnnrachain:

Lally, the Regime’s Scapegoat.

James Charles Roy:

Letters to and from County Galway Emigrants 1843-1856.

Pádraig G. Lane:

Some Roundstone Issues 1826-1861.

James Mitchell:

The Contribution of Professor W.E. Hearn to the Preparation of Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends.

Mrs. G. Cloud (ed. Tadhg Foley):

A Lone Woman in Ireland.

Timothy Collins:

Rhymes and Races.

Tony Varley:

Irish Land Reform and the West between the Wars.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 55 (2003)

John A. Claffey:

A very puzzling Irish Missal.

Freya Verstraten:

Both King and Vassal: Feidhlim Ua Conchobair of Connacht, 1230-65.

Margaret Murphy:

Roscommon Castle: Underestimated in terms of location?

Rene d’Ambrieres & Eamon Ó Ciosáin:

John Lynch of Galway (c. 1599-1677): his career, exile and writing.

Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin:

Two Score Galway Troopers in France.

James Mitchell:

The battle of Rushveala’: Origin and outcome of a faction fight at Oughterard , Co. Galway, on 8th December 1837.

Alf Mac Lochlainn:

Galway Catholic Parish Churches, 1846.

Timothy Collins:

From Anatomy to Zoophragy: A Biographical note on Frank Buckland.

Kieran Jordan & Tom O’Connor:

Archaeological Sites of interest surrounding the Turoe Stone.

Kieran R. Hickey:

An Assessment of the Meteorological Archives from N.U.I. Galway 1861-1966.

Tony Varley:

A Region of Sturdy Smallholders? Western Nationalists and Agrarian politics during the First World War.

Patrick Sheeran:

Landscape and Literature.

Dick Lyng & Ann and Len Ivins:

Tributes to Joe O’Halloran.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 54 (2002)

Ó hAnnracháin, Eoghan:

Some Wild Geese of the West.

Clesham, Brigid:

Lord Altamont's letter to Lord Lucan about the Act of Union, 1800.

Mitchell, James:

The parish church of St. Mary, Oughterard: the background to its construction, with an account of the dispute concerning title to its site.

Carey, Anne:

Excavations at Knockcarrigeen Hill, Tuam, Co. Galway.

O'Conor, Kieran & Finan, Tom:

The moated site at Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon.

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth:

Galway; or, the City of the Tribes [edited and introduced by Tadhg Foley].

Conroy, Jane:

Ballinasloe, 1826: Catholic emancipation, political tourism and the French liberal agenda.

Ó Cearbhaill, Diarmuid:

The Colahans—a remarkable Galway family. Snadh na Sean.

Collins, Timothy:

The Helga/Muirchu: her contribution to Galway maritime history.

Boran, Marie:

The Ireland that we made: a Galway tribute to Arthur J. Balfour.

Curtin, Geraldine:

Female prisoners in Galway Gaol in the late nineteenth century.

Stafford, Seán:

Taibhdearc na Gaillimhe: Galway's Gaelic theatre.

Fitzpatrick, Martin:

The excavation of a souterrain entrance at Loughrea Golf Course, County Galway.

Higgins, Jim:

A Bronze Age rattle pendant from Cloon townland, Co. Galway.

Mac Lochlainn: Alf:

James Joyce on the Galway harbour scheme.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 53 (2001)

Katharine Simms:

A Lost Tribe – The Clan Murtagh O’Conors.

Nollaig Ó Muraíle:

Some thoughts on Matters Omnastic.

Tim P. Ó Neill:

Doing Local History.

Timothy Collins:

From Hoekers to Hookers: A survey of the Literature and Annotated Bibliography on the origins of the Galway Hooker.

Kieran Hoare:

A Guide to the Archival Holdings of the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.

Peadar O’Dowd:

On Roads and Milestones in County Galway.

Amy Louise Harris & Jon Bayliss:

An unusual Memento from 16th century Galway.

Siubhán Comer:

The Gate-lodges of East Galway: An overview.

Pádraig G. Lane:

James Thorngate – Archetypal or Atypical 1850’s Landowner?

Eoin Bourke:

Paddy & the Pig’ German Travel Writers in the ‘Wild West’, 1828-1858.

James Mitchell:

Some Observations relating to Appointments at Queens College, Galway, 1849-1850.

Joe O’Halloran:

‘By Time Everything is Revealed’: the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, 1900-1999.

Alf Mac Lochlainn:

Amhráin Mhuighe Seola.

Seán Mac Giollarnáth:

Pádraic Ó Conaire.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 52 (2000)

Harbison Peter:

Church reform and Irish monastic culture in the twelfth century.

Etchingham, Colmán:

Episcopal hierarchy in Connacht and Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair.

Andrews, J.H.:

Post-Armada cartography in Galway.

Mitchell, James:

‘Scandalous almost beyond endurance’: Bishop Laurence O’Donnell and his advocacy of Queen’s College Galway.

O’Halloran, Joe:

The correspondence of Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson: letters from members of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 1919–47.

Mulveen, Jack:

Old Galway’s occupational fraternity.

Ryan, David:  

Ribbonism’ and agrarian violence in County Galway, 1819–1820.

Fitzpatrick, Martin & Crumlish, Richard

The excavation of three burnt mounds on the outskirts of Galway City.

Roy, James Charles

Caher na Earle (The Earl’s Chair).

Chapple, Robert M.:

A statistical analysis and preliminary classification of gravestones from Craughwell, Co. Galway.

 


 

JGAHS Vol. 51 (1999)

Mitchell James:

The appointment of Revd. J.W. Kirwan as first President of Queen’s College, Galway and his years in office: 1845–1849.

O’Sullivan, M.D.:

The centenary of Galway College (the text of a centenary lecture delivered on the 19th November, 1949, prepared for publication by Joe O’Halloran).

Corlett, Christiaan:

Rock art on Drumcoggy Mountain, Co. Mayo.

Casey, Markus:

Excavation at the promontory fort at Doonamo, Aughernacalliagh, Co. Mayo.

Lohan, Máire:

Ceremonial monuments in Moytura, Co. Mayo.

Ó Broin, Tomás:

Inis Thíar: Naming and misnaming.

Langan-Egan, Maureen:

Some aspects of the Great Famine in Galway.

Fennessy, Ignatius:

Hugh Charles Horan of Galway and Mother Mary MacKillop.

Ó Cearbhaill, Diarmuid:

From Dooghcloon to Chicago: the life and career of Congressman Lawrence E. McGann 1852–1928.

Mulveen, Jack:

Tóchar Phádraic: Mayo’s penitential and sculptured highway.

Marnell, Cian:

Healing wells of Kiltartan.

O’Dowd, Peadar:

James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and its Galway connections.

 


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