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Irish and Irish-American Genealogy


Manuals, Handbooks, Guides, Bibliographies

Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your British and Irish Roots: A Complete Guide to Trancing Your English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Ancestors. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1999.
Location: Wilson Reference CS414 .B381x 1999

Blessing, Patrick J. The Irish in America: A Guide to the Literature and the Manuscript Collections. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1992.
Location: Wilson Reference E184 .I6 B54x 1992

Clare, Wallace. A Simple Guide to Irish Genealogy. 3rd ed. London: Irish Genealogical Research Society, 1966.
Location: Wilson Reference CS483 .C55 1966

Directory of Irish Archives. Ed. by Seamus Helferty and Raymond Refausse. Dublin : Four Courts, 1999.
Location: Wilson Reference CD1101 .D57 1999

Grenham, John. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993.
Location: Wilson Reference CS483 .G74 1993

Irish Genealogy: A Record Finder. Donald F. Begley, ed. Dublin, Ireland: Heraldic Artists, 1981.
Location: Wilson Reference CS483 .I74

Lester, DeeGee. Irish Research: A Guide to Collections in North America, Ireland, and Great Britain. New York: Greenwood press, 1987.
Location: Wilson Reference DA906 .L47x 1987

McKenna, Erin. A Student's Guide to Irish American Genealogy. Phoenix, Az.: Oryx Press, 1996
Location: Wilson Reference E184 .I6 M37 1996

National Library of Ireland. Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation (microform). Boston: G.K. Hall, 1965.
Location: Wilson Mfilm 3497 v.1-11

O'Neill, Thomas P. Sources of Irish Local History. Dublin: Library Assoc. of Ireland, 1958.
Location: Wilson 016.9415 On2

Quinn, Sean E. Trace Your Irish Ancestors. Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland: Irish Genealogy Press, 1996
Location: Coming soon

Ryan, James G. Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History. Ancestry Incorporated, 1997.
Location: Wilson Reference quarto CS483 .R93x 1997

Yurdan, Marilyn. Irish Family History. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1990.
Location: Wilson Reference CS480 .Y8x 1990

Personal Names

Cairney, C. Thomas. Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the Gael, A.D. 500-1750. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1989.
Location: Wilson Reference DA927 .C35 1989

MacLysaght, Edward. The Surnames of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985.
Location: Wilson Reference CS2415 .M24 1985

Woulfe, Patrick. Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames, Collected and Edited with Explanatory and Historical Notes. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1923.
Location: Wilson Reference CS2411 .W6

Parish Registers, Public Records, Obituaries

Irish Church Records: Their History, Availability, and Use in Family and Local History Research. Edited by James G. Ryan. Glenageary, Co. Dublin: Flyleaf Press, 1992.
Location: CS496 .C56 I75 1993

Irish Manuscripts Commission. The Civil Survey. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931-61. 10 v.
Location: Wilson 941.5 Ir24ci

Irish Manuscripts Commission. Quaker Records, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills. Edited by P. Beryl Eustace and Olive C. Goodbody. Dublin: Stationery Off., 1957.
Location: Wilson 941.7D85 Ir2

Musgrave, William, Sir, comp. Obituary Prior to 1800 (as far as relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland). London, 1899-1901.
Location: Wilson quarto 906 H22 V.44-49 v.1-6

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Guide to Church Records: An Irish Genealogical Source. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1994.
Location: Wilson quarto CS441 .G85x 1994

Registry of Deeds (Ireland). Abstracts of Wills. Edited by P. Beryl Eustace. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1954-1956.
Location: Wilson 941.5 Ir245 v.1-2

Vicars, Arthur Edward. Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810. Dublin : E. Ponsonby, 1897.
Location: Law Storage X-18,758

Clans and Heraldry

Burke, Bernard, Sir. Burke's Irish Family Records. New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1976.
Location: Wilson Reference

Cairney, C. Thomas. Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the Gael, A.D. 500-1750. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1989.
Location: Wilson Reference DA927 .C35 1989

Grenham, John. Clans and Families of Ireland: The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families. Goldenbridge, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1993.
Location: Wilson quarto DA927 .D74x 1993

Kelly, Patrick. Irish Family Names with Original, Meanings, Clans, Arms, Crests and Mottoes; Collected from the Living Gaelic and from Authoritative Books, Manuscripts and Public Documents. 1st ed. Chicago: O'Connor and Kelly, 1939.
Location: Wilson Reference CS2415 .K4

MacLysagth, Edward. Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., Ltd., 1957.
Location: Wilson Reference quarto CS498 .M3

O'Hart, John. The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry. Dublin: Irish U.P., 1969.
Location: Wilson 929.72 Oh105

O'Laughlin, Michael C. The Book of Irish Families. Kansas City, Mo.: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1992.
Location: Wilson Reference quarto CS482 .O43 1992

Walsh, Paul. Irish Chiefs and Leaders. Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles, 1960.
Location: Wilson 941.5 W1683

Emigration and Passenger Lists

Elliott, Bruce S. Irish Migrants in the Canada: A New Approach. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.
Location: Wilson F1035 .I6 E44x 1988

The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Ira A. Glazier, ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983-1984
Location: Wilson E184.I6 F25 1983 v. 1-4

Harris, Ruth-Ann Mellish. The Nearest Place that Wasn't Ireland: Early Nineteenth Century Irish Labor Migration. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.
Location: Wilson DA125 .I7 H37 1994

Weaver, Jack W., and DeeGee Lester, comp. Immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland: A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Sources in North America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Location: Wilson Reference E184 .B7 W4x 1986


Gazetteers and Maps

General Alphabetical Index to the Townland and Towns, Parishes, and Baronies of Ireland: Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984.
Location: Wilson Borchert Map (Gazetteer) DA979 .G46 1984

Mitchell, Brian. A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986.
Location: Wilson Borchert Map (Gazetteer) G1831 .F7 M5 1986

Miscellaneous

Griffin, William D., comp. The Irish in America, 550-1972: A Chronology and Fact Book. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1973.
Location: Wilson Reference E184 .I6 G74

Johnston, Patricia Condon. Minnesota's Irish. Afton, MN: Johnston Pub. Inc., 1984.
Location: Wilson F615 .I6 J64 1984

Lee, Grace Lawless. The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland. London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.
Location: Wilson 941.5 L512


Searching MNCAT

You can use MNCAT, the University Libraries' computerized catalog, to search for specific subjects. The following are some examples of useful subject terms for genealogists; other examples are found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books located in Wilson Reference.

archives--ireland
church records and registers--ireland
clans--ireland
ireland--biography
ireland--emigration and immigration
ireland--genealogy
ireland--genealogy--handbooks
ireland--maps
ireland--gazetteers
irish americans
irish americans--genealogy irish--canada
irish--united states
names geographical--ireland
names personal--ireland
registers of births etc--ireland
wills--ireland

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