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Researches in the South of Ireland

Author: Thomas Crofton Croker

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Sources

    Editions
  1. Thomas Crofton Croker, Researches in the south of Ireland illustrative of the scenery, architectural remains, and the manners and superstitions of the peasantry, with an appendix containing a private narrative of the rebellion of 1798; introduction by Kevin Danaher (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969).
    Further reading
  1. Thomas Churchyard, Worthines of Wales (first published London 1587; reprinted London 1776).
  2. Edmund Borlase, The history of the excrable Irish rebellion: trac'd from many preceding acts, to the grand eruption the 23d of October, 1641. And thence pursued to the act of settlement, MDCLXII (London: Printed for Robert Clavel, in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1680).
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  4. Richard Cox, Hibernia Anglicana; or the History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English to this present Time. With an Introductory Discourse touching the Ancient State of that Kingdom; and a new and Exact Map of the same, 2 vols. (London: H. Clark and Joseph Watts 1689–90).
  5. Jonathan Swift, Carberiae Rupes (Dublin 1723).
  6. John Loveday, Diary of a Tour in 1732, through parts of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, made by John Loveday of Caversham, and now for the first time printed from a manuscript in the possession of his great-grandson John Edward Taylor Loveday, with an Introduction and an Itinerary (Edinburgh 1890).
  7. Charles Smith, Natural and Civil History of Waterford (Dublin 1746).
  8. William Rufus Chetwood (ascribed), A Tour through Ireland. In several entertaining letters. Wherein the present state of that kingdom is consider'd: and the most noted cities, towns, seats, rivers, buildings, &c. are described ... To which is prefix'd, a description of the road from London to Holy-Head. By two English Gentlemen, (J. Roberts: London, 1748).
  9. Charles Smith, Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (Dublin 1750).
  10. John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, 4 volumes (London 1754).
  11. Thomas Burke, Hibernia Dominicana: sive historia provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum [...] (Coloniae Agrippinae (= Cologne) 1762).
  12. Edmund Spenser, A view of the state of Ireland as it was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: written by way of dialogue between Eudoxus and Ireneus [...] to which is prefix'd the author's life, and an index added (Dublin 1763). [A later edition is available online at CELT.]
  13. John O'Brien, Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English dictionary [...] (Paris 1768).
  14. John Bush, Hibernia Curiosa, a letter from a gentleman in Dublin, to his friend at Dover in Kent: giving a general view of the manners, customs, dispositions, &c. of the inhabitants of Ireland [...] collected in a tour through the kingdom in the year 1764, ornamented with a map of the city of Dublin and several copper plates (Dublin 1769).
  15. William Lithgow, Travels and Voyages through Europe, Asia and Africa, for nineteen years [...] (Edinburgh 1770) [According to copac.ac.uk first published in 1614 as 'A most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke'.]
  16. [Thomas Campbell,] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson (Dublin 1778). [Available online at CELT.]
  17. Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland, with general observations on the present state of that kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779. London, printed by H. Goldney, for T. Cadell and J. Dodsley, 1780; Dublin, printed by George Bonham, for Messrs. Whitestone, Sleater, Sheppard, Williams, Burnet, Wilson Jenkin, Wogan, Vallance, White, Beatty, Byrn, and Burton, 1780. [Available online at CELT.]
  18. Reverend Mervyn Archdall, Monasticum Hibernicum; or an History of the Abbies, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland, 2 volumes (London 1786).
  19. Joseph Cooper Walker, Historical memoirs of the Irish bards, interspersed with anecdotes of the music of Ireland. Also, an appendix. (Dublin 1786).
  20. John Ferrar, The history of Limerick, ecclesiastical, civil and military, from the earliest records, to the year 1787, illustrated by fifteen engravings. To which are added the charter of Limerick and an essay on Castle Connell spa, on water in general and cold bathing (Limerick 1787).
  21. The Antiquities of Ireland: by Francis Grose (ed. and for the most part written by Edward Ledwich) 2 vols., (London 1791[–94].
  22. Charles Jackson, A narrative of the sufferings and escape of Charles Jackson, late resident at Wexford in Ireland: including an account, by way of journal, of several barbarous atrocities committed in June 1798 by the Irish rebels in that town while it was in their possession, to the greater part of which he was an eye-witness (Dublin: J. Milliken 1798).
  23. George Holmes, Sketches of some of the Southern Counties, Collected During a Tour in the Autumn, 1797. In a Series of Letters (London 1801).
  24. Isaac Weld, Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the surrounding Country (London 1805).
  25. Horatio Townsend, A general and statistical survey of the county of Cork (...) (Dublin 1810).
  26. T. F. Dillon Croker, 'Memoir of the Late Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq.,' Gentleman's Magazine (October 1854). [Reprinted in 'Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland', editions of 1859 and 1862.]
  27. Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. First published 1825; republished with a Memoir of T. C. Croker by his son, T. F. Dillon Croker (London: William Tegg 1862).
  28. Charles John Robinson, 'The family of Croker', The Herald and Genealogist 8, edited by J. G. Nichols (London 1874) 377–391.
  29. John Derricke, The image of Irelande: with a discoverie of woodkarne, 1581; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott, edited, with introduction, by John Small (Edinburgh 1883).
  30. John T. Gilbert (ed), A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland. First published 1892; facsimile Shannon 1971. [Available online at CELT.]
  31. Robert O'Connell, Richard O'Ferrall, Commentarius Rinuccinianus de Sedis apostolicae legatione ad Foederatos Hiberniae catholicos per annos 1645–1649 ed. Stanislaus Kavanagh et al. (6 vols, Dublin 1932–49).
  32. Edmund Curtis (ed.), 'The unpublished letters of T. Crofton Croker', Irish Book Lover 28 (1941) 6–12, 27–33.
  33. B. G. MacCarthy, 'Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798–1854', Studies 32 (1943) 539–556.
  34. John Hennig, 'The Brothers Grimm and T. C. Croker', The Modern Language Review 41/1 (January 1946) 44–54.
  35. Richard M. Dorson, 'The First Group of British Folklorists', The Journal of American Folklore 68, no. 267 (January to March 1955) 1–8.
  36. Gerard J. Lyne (ed), Lewis Dillwyn's Visit to Kerry, 1809, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 15-16 (1983) 83–111. [Available online at CELT]
  37. Gerard J. Lyne and M. E. Mitchell (eds), 'A scientific tour through Munster: the travels of Joseph Woods, architect and botanist, 1809', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 27 (1985) 15–61. [Available online at CELT]
  38. Gerard J. Lyne (ed), 'Rev. Daniel A. Beaufort's tour of Kerry, 1788', Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 18 (1985) 183–214. [Available online at CELT]
  39. Gerard J. Lyne (ed), 'Lewis Dillwyn's visit to Waterford, Cork and Tipperary in 1809', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 91 (1986) 85–104. [Available online at CELT]
  40. Michelle O'Riordan, The Gaelic mind and the collapse of the Gaelic world (Studies in Irish history) (Cork 1991).
  41. R. O'Donnell and B. Reece, 'A clean beast: Crofton Croker's fairy tale of General Holt', Eighteenth-Century Ireland 7 (1992) 7–42.
  42. Morfydd E. Owen, 'A Cambro-Hibernian alliance: Maria Jane Williams and Thomas Crofton Croker', Archaeologia Cambrensis 143 (1994 [1996]), 1–36.
  43. W. J. McCormack, 'Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004.
  44. Hiram Morgan, The Battle of Kinsale (Bray 2004).
  45. Thomas Crofton Croker, The keen of the south of Ireland as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions; collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker; edited and with an introduction and notes by Neil C. Hultin and Warren U. Ober. Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints Series, v. 552 (Ann Arbor: 2005).
  46. Michelle O'Riordan, Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality (Cork 2007).
  47. Thomas Crofton Croker, Legends of the lakes: or, sayings and doings at Killarney: collected chiefly from the manuscripts of R. Adolphus Lynch; by T. Crofton Croker; a facsimile reproduction edited and with an introduction and notes by Neil C. Hultin and Warren U. Ober. Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints Series v. 557 (Ann Arbor: 2008).
  48. Eoin Bourke, Poor Green Erin (Frankfurt am Main 2011).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Researches in the south of Ireland: illustrative of the scenery, architectural remains, and the manners and superstitions of the peasantry; with an appendix containing a private narrative of the Rebellion of 1798. Thomas Crofton Croker First edition [385 pages] John MurrayLondon (1824)

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Created: By Thomas Crofton Croker (1798–1854) Date range: 1812–1822.

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