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Title |
Author |
Call Number |
Notes |
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All-Ireland Heritage |
D. R. H. Associates |
R941.5/A416 |
Periodical;
miscellaneous |
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Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland |
Papworth, John W. |
R929.8/P218A |
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American Irish: A History |
Kenny, Kevin |
R973.0491/K36A |
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Armagh Families |
Strothers, Thomas |
Q941.661/S888A |
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At the Ford of the Birches: The History of Ballybay, Its People and Vicinity |
Murnane, James H. & Peadar Murnane |
941.697/M977A |
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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape |
Allen, F. H. A. et al |
R941.5/A881 |
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Bibliography of Irish Family History |
MacLysaght, Edward |
941.5/M166B |
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Blennerville: Gateway to Tralee's Past |
Kelly, Liam et al |
R941.96/K29B |
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Book of Irish Americans |
Griffin, William D. |
973.049/G852B |
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Book of Irish Families |
O' Laughlin, Michael C. |
R929.42/O42B |
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Book of Irish Names: First, Family & Place Names |
Coghlan, Ronan et al |
929.4/C676B |
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British Sources for Irish History, 1485-1641 |
Donovan, Brian C. and David Edwards |
941.5/D687B |
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Castlemagner Parish, County Cork, Ireland |
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Q941.95/C353 |
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Celtic Book of Names: Traditional Names from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales |
Conway, D. J. |
R929.409/C767C |
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Celtic Knot |
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R941.5/C394 |
Periodical;
miscellaneous |
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Census Index: Ireland, 1831-1841 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #197 |
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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia |
Chalkley, Lyman |
R975.591/C436C |
3 vols. |
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Cill Slar Kilglas: The Church by the Stream |
Carroll, P. J. |
941.5/C319C |
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Civil Survey, A. D. 1654-1656 |
Stationary Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission |
330.9415/C582 |
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Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland |
Cairney, C. Thomas |
R941.5/C136C |
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County and City of Cork Post Office General Directory, 1842-3 |
941.9501/C855 |
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County Antrim, Ireland 1851 Census (Fragments): Transcription and Index |
Masterson, Josephine |
R941.612/M423C |
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County Longford and Its People: An Index to the 1901 Census for County Longford |
Leahy, David |
941.812/L434C |
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County Longford Survivors of the Great Famine |
Leahy, David |
R941.812/L434C and 941.812/L434C |
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Destiny of the Scotch-Irish: An Account of a Presbyterian Migration, 1720-1853 |
Porter, H. Leonard |
941.697/P845D |
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Dictionary of Irish Family Names |
Grehan, Ida |
R929.42/G818D |
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Directory of Irish Archives |
Helferty, Seamus and Raymond Refausse |
R941.5/D598 |
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Directory of Irish Family History Research |
Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild |
Q941.6/D598 |
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Discovering Your Irish Ancestors |
Radford, Dwight A. and Kyle J. Betit |
R929.1/R128G |
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Donegal Presbyterians: A Scots-Irish Congregation in Pennsylvania |
MacMaster, Richard K. |
R974.815/M167D |
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Early Irish Settlers in St. Louis Missouri and Dogtown Neighborhood, 1798-2000 |
Brunsmann, Sandra M. |
R977.866/B899E and Q977.866/B899E |
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Eire-Ireland |
Irish American Cultural Institute |
R941.5/E35I |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues |
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EIREphile |
Morris, Andrew J. |
R941.5/E35 |
Periodical; vols. 1-6 only |
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Emerald Isle in Maps |
Library of Congress |
Q941.5/E53 |
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Emigrants from Derry Port, 1847-49 |
Baker, Dessie |
R941.6081/P839 |
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Emigrants from Ireland, 1847-1852 |
Ellis, Eilish |
R941.5081/E47E |
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Encyclopedia of the Irish in America |
Glazier, Michael |
R973.049/E56 |
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Essays in Scotch-Irish History |
Green, E. R. R. |
941.6/E78 |
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Families of County Cork Ireland |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
R941.95/O42F |
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Families of County Dublin Ireland |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
R941.83/O42F |
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Families of County Galway Ireland |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
R941.74/O42F |
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Families of County Kerry, Ireland |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
R941.96/O42F and 941.96/O42F |
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Families of County Limerick Ireland |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
R941.94/O42F |
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Family Names of County Cork |
O'Murchadha, Diarmuid |
929.42/O57 |
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Family Ties in England, Scotland, Wales, & Ireland |
Reid, Judith P. |
R929.1/R356F |
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Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851 |
Glazier, Ira A. |
R929.3/F198 and 929.3/F198 |
7 vols. |
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Finding Your Irish Ancestors |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.5/M681F |
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Full Circle: A Story of Ballybay Presbyterians |
Nesbitt, David |
941.697/N458F |
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Gallon: The History of Three Townlands in County Tyrone from the Earliest Times to the Present |
Bradley, William John |
941.6/B811G |
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Genealogical Atlas of Ireland |
Gardner, David E. et al |
R941.5/G226G |
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Genealogical Research in Ireland |
Falley, Margaret D. |
Q941.5/F195G |
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General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes, and Baronies of Ireland |
R941.5/G326 and 941.5/G326 |
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General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales |
Burke, Bernard |
R929.6/B959G and 929.6/B959G |
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Glories of Ireland |
Dunn, Joseph and P. J. Lennox |
R941.5/D923G |
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Going to Ireland: A Genealogical Researcher's Guide |
Irvine, Sherry and Nora M. Hickey |
R929.1/I72G and 929.1/I72G |
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Gravestone Inscriptions: County Antrim |
Clarke, R. S. J. |
941.612/G776 |
Volume 1 only |
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Gravestone Inscriptions: County Down |
Clarke, R. S. J. |
941.656/C599G |
16 vols. |
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Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills |
Clare, Wallace |
R941.5/C591G |
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Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards |
Mitchell, Brian |
Q941.5/M681G |
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Guide to Irish Parish Registers |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.5/M681G and Q941.5/M681G |
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Guide to Irish Quaker Records, 1654-1860 |
Goodbody, Olive C. |
R941.5/G646G |
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Guide to Irish Roots |
Durning, William and Mary Durning |
R941.5/D963G |
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Guide to Irish Surnames |
MacLysaght, Edward |
929.4/M166G |
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Guide to Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors |
Ryan, James G. and Brian Smith |
941.835/R988G |
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Guide to Tracing Your Kerry Ancestors |
O'Connor, Michael H. |
941.96/O18G |
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Handbook of the United Diocese of Down & Connor & Dromore |
Ewart, Lavens M. |
R941.6/E94H |
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Handbook on Irish Genealogy |
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R929.1/H236 and 929.1/H236 |
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History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850 |
McGee, Thomas d'Arcy |
R973.004/M145H and 973.004/M145H |
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History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway |
Hardiman, James |
R941.745/H262H |
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How and Where to Research Your Ethnic-American Cultural Heritage: Irish Americans |
Reed, Robert D. |
R929.1/R325H |
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If You're a Wee Bit Irish: A Chart of Old Irish Families |
O'Duirnin, Ulliam |
R941.5/D963I and 941.5/D963I |
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 |
Myers, Albert Cook |
R974.8/M996I and 974.8/M996I |
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Immigration Records: Scotch-Irish Settlers In America, 1500s-1800s |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #276 |
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In Search of Your British & Irish Roots |
Baxter, Angus |
R929.1/B355I and 929.1/B355I |
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Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #188 |
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Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin [c.1638] to the Year 1800 |
Ireland Public Record Office |
941.835/I65I |
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Index to the Parish Register of Drung & Larah, Diocese of Kilmore, County Cavan, Ireland |
Hillman, Carol D. M. |
Q941.698/H654I |
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Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 |
Vicars, Arthur |
941.5/V629I |
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Indexes to Irish Wills |
Phillimore, W. P. W. |
R941.5/P556I and 941.5/P556I |
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Inside Ireland |
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R941.5/I59 |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues |
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Intermarriage in Ireland, 1550-1650 |
Jackson, Donald |
941.5/J12I |
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International Land Records: Irish Flax Grower's List, 1796 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #271 |
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International Land Records: Tithe Applotment Books of Ireland, 1823-1838 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #262 |
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Ireland 1831 Census Index |
Jackson, Ronald Vern |
R941.62/J13I |
2 vols. |
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Ireland 1841 Census Index |
Jackson, Ronald Vern |
R941.698/J13I |
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Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815 to the Famine |
Adams, William Forbes |
941.508/A219I |
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Ireland to Minnesota: Stories from the Heart |
Hibernians of Minnesota |
Q977.6/I65 |
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Ireland, Volume 1 |
Heritage Books Archives |
CD #HB1420 |
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Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland) |
Masterson, Josephine |
R941.6/M423I |
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Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Republic of Ireland) |
Masterson, Josephine |
R941.7/M423I |
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Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry |
MacLysaght, Edward |
R929.72/O36I |
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Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research |
Falley, Margaret D. |
R929.1/F195I and 929.1/F195I |
2 vols. |
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Irish Book of Arms |
O'Laughlin, Michael C. |
Q941.5/O42I |
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Irish Church Records |
Ryan, James G. |
R941.5/I68 |
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Irish Emigrants in North America |
Dobson, David |
R973.0491/D635I |
parts 1, 2, & 3 |
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Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839 |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.6081/M681I and 941.6081/M681I |
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Irish Families: Their Names, Arms, and Origins |
MacLysaght, Edward |
R929.2/M166I |
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Irish Family Links |
Irish Genealogical Association |
R941.5/F1981 |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues |
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Irish Family Names |
O'Donovan, Peadar |
929.4/O26I |
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Irish Family Names Society Newsletter |
Irish Family Names Society |
(on range 3A) |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues; ask at desk |
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Irish Family Names with Origins, Meanings, Clans, Arms, Crests and Mottoes |
Kelly, Patrick |
R929.4/K29I and 929.4/K29I |
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Irish Family Names: Highlights of 50 Family Histories |
Grehan, Ida |
R929.4/G823I |
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Irish Family Research Made Simple |
Collins, E. J. |
R929.1/C712I |
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Irish Genealogist |
Irish Genealogical Research Society |
R941.5/I68 |
Periodical; vols. 2-8 and miscellaneous issues |
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Irish Genealogy: A Reference Aid |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.5/M681I and Q941.5/M681I |
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Irish Gravestone Inscriptions: A Guide to Sources in Ulster |
O'Kane, William and Eoin Kerr |
R941.6/I68 and 941.6/I68 |
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Irish Heritage Links |
Irish Heritage Association |
R941.5/F1982 |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues |
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Irish Immigrants in Nineteenth Century Ohio: A Database |
Wolf, Donna M. |
R977.1/W853I and Q9771./W853I |
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Irish in Dakota |
Kemp, David |
R978.3/K32I |
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Irish in South Carolina |
Tobin, William A. |
975.7/T629I |
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Irish in the South: 1815-1877 |
Gleeson, David T. |
R975.0049/G555I |
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Irish Marriages: Being an Index to the Marriages in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1771 to 1812 |
Farrar, Henry |
R941.5/F242I |
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Irish Names and Surnames |
Woulfe, Patrick |
R929.4/W938I |
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Irish Passenger Lists, 1803-1806 |
Mitchell, Brian |
R929.3/I68 and 929.3/I68 |
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Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871 |
Mitchell, Brian |
R929.3/I68 and 929.3/I68 |
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Irish Pedigrees |
O'Hart, John |
R941.5/O36I and 941.5/O36I |
2 vols. |
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Irish Quaker Arrivals to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 |
Myers, Albert Cook |
974.8/M996I |
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Irish Rebellion of 1916 and Its Martyrs:Erin's Tragic Easter |
Colum, Padraic et al |
R941.5/C726I |
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Irish Records: Sources for Family & Local History |
Ryan, James G. |
R941.5/R988I and 941.5/R988I |
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Irish Refugee Tract Abstract Data and History of the Irish Accadians [sic] |
Maxwell, Fay |
R977.156/M465I |
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Irish Relatives and Friends from "Information Wanted" Ads in the Irish-American, 1850-1871 |
DeGrazia, Laura Murphy |
929.3/D321I |
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Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish" |
Linehan, John C. |
973.049162/L754I |
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Irish Settlers in America |
O'Brien, Michael J. |
R973.049162/O13I and 973.049162/O13I |
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Irish Source Records, 1500s-1800s |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #275 |
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Irish War |
Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County |
977.283/B968I |
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Irish-American Genealogist |
Augustan Society |
R941.5/I68A |
#17-32 only |
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Jane's Letters from Ireland, 1884-1886 |
Frantz, Peter B. |
941.508/F836J |
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Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society |
American-Irish Historical Society |
R973.049162/J86 and E184.I6A5 |
Periodical, vols. 1-14; 17-20; 29 and 30 |
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Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America |
Miller, Kerby and Patricia Mulholland Miller |
R973.0491/M648J |
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Land Owners in Ireland |
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R941.5/L253 and Q941.5/L253 |
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Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles |
McKittrick, David et al |
R941.60824/L88I |
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Marriages in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuam, Ireland, 1821-1829 |
Murphy, Helen M. and James R. Reilly |
R941.5/M978M |
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National Index of Parish Registers |
Steel, D. J. |
941.5/S813N |
Vols. 1-5; 9, part 4; 11, part 1;12 |
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New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.5/M681N |
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Parish Maps of Ireland |
Mitchell, Brian |
R941.6/P233 |
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Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #257 |
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Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #357 |
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Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, Volume 2, 1846-1886 |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #264 |
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Passenger Lists from Ireland |
Hackett, J. Dominick and Charles Montague Early |
R929.3/H121P and 929.3/H121P |
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Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817 |
Schlegel, Donald M. |
R929.3/S339P and 929.3/S339P |
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Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German |
Egle, William Henry |
R974.8/E31P |
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| Phillimore
Atlas & Index of Parish Registers |
Humphery-Smith, Cecil R. | R942/P556 | |
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Pioneer Irish in New England |
O'Brien, Michael J. |
974/O13P |
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Plantation of Ulster |
Robinson, Philip |
941.6/R663P |
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Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy |
Mitchell, Brian |
R929.1/M681P |
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Portrait of a Pious Bishop; or, the Life and Death of the Most Rev. Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala |
Lynch, John |
R941.73/L987P |
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Protestation Returns, 1641-1642 |
Gibson, Jeremy and Alan Dell |
Q929.341/G449P |
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Registry of Deeds: Dublin, Abstracts of Wills |
Eustace, P. Beryl |
941.5/R337A |
Vol. 1, 1708-1745; Vol. 2, 1746-1785 |
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Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records for the years 1954-1959 |
Government of Northern Ireland Public Record Office |
R941.6/N874R |
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Researching Armagh Ancestors |
Maxwell, Ian |
929.1072/M465R |
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Richard Griffith and His Valuations of Ireland |
Reilly, James R. |
R941.5/R362R |
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Saint Louis Irish |
Dolan, Ellen Meara |
R977.866/D659S and Q977.866/D659S |
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Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America |
Bolton, Charles Knowles |
941.6/B694S |
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Scotch-Irish |
Durning, William and Mary Durning |
R929.1/D963S |
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Scotch-Irish and Their First Settlements on the Tyger River and Other Neighboring Precincts in South Carolina |
Howe, George |
R975.7/H856S and F280.S4H8 1981 |
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Scotch-Irish Family Research Made Simple |
Campbell, R. G. |
R929.1/C189S |
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Scotch-Irish in America |
Ford, Henry Jones |
R973.049/F699S |
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Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 |
Stephenson, Jean |
R975.7/S836S and 975.7/S836S |
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Scotch-Irish or The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America |
Hanna, Charles A. |
R941.6/H243S |
2 vols. |
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Scotch-Irish: A Social History |
Leyburn, James G. |
R308.8/L682S and 308.8/L682S |
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Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee |
Kennedy, Billy |
976.8/K35S |
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Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725 |
Dobson, David |
R941.507/D635S |
Vol. 3 |
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Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I |
Perceval-Maxwell, M. |
941.6/P428S |
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Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot |
Harris, Ruth-Ann M. and Donald M. Jacobs |
R974.461/S439 |
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Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot, 1831-1920 |
New England Historic Genealogical Society |
CD #M42 |
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Septs |
Irish Genealogical Society, International |
R941.5/S4793 |
Vols. 18-22 and miscellaneous issues |
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Simple Guide to Irish Genealogy |
Clare, Wallace |
R929.1/C622S |
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Sources for Irish Family History |
Ryan, James G. |
R941.5/R988S |
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Special Report on Surnames in Ireland |
Matheson, Robert E. |
R929.4/M427S and 929.4/M427S |
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St. Louis Irish: An Unmatched Celtic Community |
Faherty, William Barnaby |
R977.866/F157S and 977.866/F157S |
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Supplement to Irish Families |
MacLysaght, Edward |
Q929.2/M166S |
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Supplemental Report on Genealogical Research in Ireland |
Falley, Margaret D. |
Q941.5/F195S |
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Surnames of Ireland |
MacLysaght, Edward |
R929.4/M166S |
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Tombstones of the Omey |
McGrew, William J. |
R941.647/M147T |
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Topographical Dictionaries: Lewis' Gazetteers of England, Ireland, and Scotland |
FamilyTreeMaker |
CD #270 |
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Townlands in Poor Law Unions |
Handran, George |
Q941.508/H236T |
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Tracing Your Cork Ancestors |
McCarthy, Tony and Tim Cadogan |
929.1/M123G |
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| Tracing
Your Limerick Ancestors |
Franklin, Margaret | R941.94/F833G | |
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Tracing Your Irish Ancestors |
Grenham, John |
R929.1/G826T |
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Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors |
Smith, Brian |
929.1/S643G |
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Ulster Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1775 |
Dickson, R. J. |
941.5/D554U |
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Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild Newsletter |
Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild |
(on range 3A) |
Periodical; miscellaneous issues; ask at desk |
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Ulster Sails West |
Marshall, William F. |
R973/049162/M369U and 973.049162/M369U |
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Visitation of Ireland |
Howard, Joseph Jackson and Frederick Arthur Crisp |
R941.5/H849V and 941.5/H849V |
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