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The Aran Isles: or, A report of the excursion of the Ethnological section of the British association from Dublin to the western islands of Aran, in September, 1857

Author: Martin Haverty

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Electronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber

Additional proof corrections by Rebecca Daly

Funded by School of History, UCC

1. First draft.

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Text ID Number: E850007-001

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Notes

This is "a revised and extended version of the Report of the Aran excursion proceedings, originally published in the Freeman's journal." A hardcopy is available in the NLI and TCD Library, but not in the Boole Library, UCC. The book is available online at the Hathi Trust. CELT is grateful to volunteer Rebecca Daly for her help with proof-reading.

Sources

    Works mentioned in this report
  1. The Battle of Moytura. For bibliographic details please refer to CELT file G300010, Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired, edited by Elizabeth A. Gray.
  2. Roderic O'Flaherty, Ogygia seu, Rerum Hibernicarum chronologia: Ex pervetustis monumentis fideliter inter se collatis eruta, atque e sacris ac prophanis literis primarum orbis gentium tam genealogicis, quam chronologicis sufflaminata praesidiis. (...) (London 1685). (An English translation by the Reverend James Hely was published in Dublin 1793).
  3. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught: written A.D. 1684, ed. James Hardiman (Dublin 1846).
  4. John Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae (Leuven (=Louvain) 1645).
  5. The Annals of the Four Masters. For bibliographic details please refer to CELT file G100005D (Irish) and T100005D (English).
  6. Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica, 1188: J. F. Dimock (ed.), Topographia Hibernica et expugnatio Hibernica, Rolls Series 21. Vol. 5 of Giraldi Cambrensis Opera (London 1867).
  7. Samuel Ferguson, "Clonmacnoise, Clare, and Arran", Dublin University Magazine XLI (1853) part 1, January 79–95; part 2, April 492–505.
  8. On Sir Samuel Ferguson, see also Mary Catherine Ferguson (ed), Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his day, (Edinburgh and London 1896).
  9. Charles C. Babington, "On the Firbolgic Forts on the South Isles of Aran, Ireland", Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. iv, ser. iii, January, 1858, 96–103.
  10. George Petrie, The ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland: anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion, comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland (Dublin 1845).
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  12. John T. O'Flaherty, "A Sketch of the History and Antiquities of the Southern Islands of Aran, Lying off the West Coast of Ireland; with Observations on the Religion of the Celtic Nations, Pagan Monuments of the Early Irish, Druidic Rites, &c.", Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 14 (1825) 79–139 (available online on JSTOR.org at https://www.jstor.org/stable/30079121).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Aran Isles or a report of the excursion of the technological section of the British Association from Dublin to the western Isles of Aran in September 1857. Martin Haverty First edition [45 pages] Printed for the excursionists, at the University press, by M. H. Gill Dublin (1859)

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Created: By Martin Haverty (1859)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] A number of phrases, names and terms are in Irish.
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