A Selected Bibliography for Irish Research

Instructional Books and Guides to Sources

  • Begley, Donal F. Handbook of Irish Genealogy [Ireland G 5.1]
  • Begley, Donal F. Irish Genealogy: a Record Finder [Ireland G 5.11]
  • Betit, Kyle J. Ireland: a Genealogical Guide for North Americans [Ireland G 5.13]
  • Black, J. Anderson Your Irish Ancestors [Ireland G 16.5]
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Library Research Outline: Ireland [Ireland G 5.14]
  • DeBreffny, Brian Bibliography of Irish Family History and Genealogy [Ireland G 5.52]
  • Falley, Margaret Dickson Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research [Ireland G 5]
  • General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes, and Baronies of Ireland – Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851 [Ireland G 1.8]
  • Gibson, J.S.W. The Hearth Tax, Other Latter Stuart Tax Lists and the Association Oath Rolls [England G 14.717]
  • Gibson, J.S.W. Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills [England G 14.61]
  • Goodbody, Olive C., ed. Quaker Records, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills [Ireland L D852.6]
  • Grenham, John Tracing Your Irish Ancestors [Ireland G 5.12]
  • Handran, George B. Esq. Townlands in Poor Law Unions: a Reprint of Poor Law Union Pamphlets of the General Registrars Office [Ireland G 1.81]
  • Helferty, Seamus Directory of Irish Archives [IRELAND G 1.5 1999]
  • Irish Tourist Board Tracing Your Ancestors [Ireland G 1.45]
  • Irvine, Sherry and Nora M. Hickey Going to Ireland: a Genealogical Researcher's Guide [Ireland G 1.46]
  • Kissane, Noel ed. Treasures from the National Library of Ireland [IRE. G 60]
  • National Archives of Ireland Sources for Family History and Genealogy [Ireland G 5.17]
  • O'Duill, Eileen and Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl Irish Civil Registration: Where Do I Start? [IRELAND G 1.82]
  • O'Kane, William and Eoin Kerr, eds. Irish Gravestone Inscriptions: a Guide to Sources in Ulster [N. Ire. G 12]
  • O'Neill, Robert Keating Irish Libraries : Archives, Museums & Genealogical Centres [IRELAND G 1.55]
  • Pine, L.G., ed. Burke's Landed Gentry in Ireland [Ireland G 8]
  • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland How to Trace Your Family Tree [N. Ire. G 2]
  • Radford, Dwight A. and Kyle J. Betit A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering your Irish Ancestors: How to Find and Record your Unique Heritage [CS 21 R33]
  • Reilly, James R. Richard Griffith and his Valuations of Ireland: with an Inventory of the Books of the General Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland [IRELAND G 2.71]
  • Ryan, James G. Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History [Ireland G 5.08]
  • Ryan, James G. Sources of Irish Family History: a Listing of Books and Articles on the History of Irish Families [IRELAND G 1.51]
  • Townlands in Ulster: Local History Case Studies [N. IRE. G 4]

Local Histories, Guides, and Maps

  • Adams, William Forbes Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World From 1815 to the Famine [E184 I6 A5]
  • County Maps of Ireland (showing all baronies, parishes, villages, antiquities, demesnes, market towns, mountains, rivers, forts, Roman Catholic churches, castles, abbeys, round towers, lakes, roads, steam railways, canals, barracks, bridges, harbors, points, rocks, chapels, cemeteries, schools, and stations.) [FLAT FILE - MAPS (Ireland)]
  • Crawford, W.H. and R.H. Foy, editors Townlands in Ulster: Local History Case Studies [N. IRE. G 4]
  • Duffy, Godfrey F. A Guide to Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors [IRELAND L D716.1]
  • Exploring Family Origins and Old Carrick-on-Shannon [[IRELAND L L537.1]
  • Exploring Family Origins and Old Cavan Town [IRELAND L C314.3]
  • Exploring Family Origins and Old Longford Town [IRELAND L L857.5]
  • Franklin, Margaret A Guide to Tracing your Limerick Ancestors [IRELAND L L629.1]
  • Hood, Susan Royal Roots - Republican Inheritance: the Survival of the College of Arms [IRE. G 3.75]
  • Kerry: County Guide and Maps [IRELAND L K469]
  • Lewis, Samuel Topographical Dictionary of Ireland [IRELAND G 1.7 1990]
  • Mitchell, Brian A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland [IRELAND G 1.4 2002]
  • Murnane, James H. At the Ford of the Birches: the History of Ballybay, its People and Vicinity [IRELAND L B214.1]
  • O'Connor, Michael H. A Guide to Tracing your Kerry Ancestors [IRELAND L K469.1]
  • Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland
    • Parishes of County Antrim [N. IRE. L AN89.1]
    • Parishes of County Armagh, 1835-1838 [N. IRE. L AR54.1]
    • Parishes of County Donegal, 1833-5 [IRELAND L D716.2]
    • Parishes of County Down [N. IRE. L D757.5]
    • Parishes of County Fermanagh [N. IRE. L F385.1]
    • Parishes of County Londonderry [N. IRE. L L846.1]
    • Parishes of County Tyrone [N. IRE. L T984.1[
    • Counties of South Ulster, 1834-8 [Cavan, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan, Sligo] IRELAND G 60
  • Refaussé, Raymond, Ed. A Library on the Move: Twenty Five years of the Representative Church Body Library in Churchtown [IRELAND L D852.8]
  • Ryan, James G. A Guide to Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors [IRELAND G 5.06]
  • Smith, Brian A Guide to Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors [IRELAND L M454.1]

Churches

  • Galbraith, Charles Thomas Root Cause: Catholic Records and Genealogical Research in New York [E 184 I6 G35]
  • Irish Church Directory and Yearbook, 1976 [IRELAND G 13]
  • Irish Catholic Directory, 1975 [IRELAND G 51]
  • Mitchell, Brian A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards [IRELAND G 14]
  • Mitchell, Brian A Guide to Irish Parish Registers [IRELAND G 1.85]
  • Nesbitt, David Full Circle: a Story of Ballybay Presbyterians [IRELAND L B214]
  • Ryan, James G. Irish Church Records: Their History, Availability, and Use in Family and Local History [IRELAND G 5.2 2001]

Names

  • Ardolina, Rosemary Muscarella What's In a Name: a List of Christian Names and their Irish Nicknames, Variants, Irish & Latin Equivalents [IRELAND G 35]
  • Grehan, Ida Irish Family Names: Highlights of Fifty Family Histories [IRELAND G 37]
  • MacLysaght, Edward The Surnames of Ireland [IRELAND G 200]
  • Matheson, Sir Robert E. Special Report on Surnames in Ireland Together With Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland [IRELAND G 204]
  • Woulfe, Patrick Irish Names and Surnames [IRELAND G 36]

Records/Indexes

  • Dobson, David Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725 [N. IRE. G 9]
  • Farrar, Henry Irish Marriages: Being an Index to the Marriages in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1771-1812 [Ireland G 2]
  • ffolliott, Rosemary Indexes to Clonfert Marriage Licence Bonds, Wills and Administration Bonds [Ireland G 1.12]
  • ffolliott, Rosemary Index to Raphoe Marriage License Bonds, 1710-1755 and 1817-1830 [Ireland G 1.11]
  • Gibson, J.S.W. and M. Medlycott Militia Lists and Musters, 1757-1876 [England G 14.716]
  • Glazier, Ira and Michael H. Tepper The Famine Immigrant. Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York [E 184 I6 F25]
  • Hood, Susan Register of the Parish of Holy Trinity (Christ Church), Cork, 1643-1669 [IRELAND L C813.4]
  • Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871 [E 184 I6 I75]
  • Irish Emigration Lists, 1833 [E 184 I6 I73]
  • Masterson, Josephine Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Republic of Ireland) [Ireland G 2.5]
  • Masterson, Josephine Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland) [N. Ire. G 8]
  • Mills, James, Ed. Register of the Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699 [IRELAND L D852.71 2000]
  • Murphy, Helen M. Marriages in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuam, Ireland, 1820-1829 [Ireland L T79]
  • Pegley, Suzanne Register of the Parish of Leixlip, Co. Kildare, 1665 to 1778 [IRELAND L L537.7]
  • Phillimore, W.P.W. and Gertrude Thrift, eds. 1997 Indexes to Irish Wills [Ireland G 29 1997]
  • Refaussé, Raymond, Ed. The Register of the Church of St Thomas, Lisnagarvey, Co. Antrim 1637-1646 [N. IRE. L L681.1]
  • Refaussé, Raymond, Ed. The Register of the Parish of St. Thomas, Dublin, 1750-1791 [IRELAND L D852.45]
  • Rich, Kevin J. Irish Immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank: 1850-1853, Volume I [N.Y. L M314.72 E42.1]
  • Schlegel, Donald M. Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811-1817 [E184 I6 S34]
  • Thomas, Colin, Ed. Register of the Cathedral Church of St. Columb, Derry [N. IRE. L D448.2]
  • Townlands in Poor Law Union: a Reprint of Poor Law Union Pamphlets of the General Registrar's Office [Ireland G 1.81]
  • Vicars. Sir Arthur Index to Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810 [Ireland G 30]
  • Wood, Herbert Registers of the Parish of St. Catherine, Dublin, 1636-1715 [IRELAND L D852.41]
  • Woodham-Smith, Cecil The Great Hunger [Ireland G 15.5]

Irish in North America

  • DeGrazia, Laura Murphy and Diane Fitzpatrick Haberstroh Irish Relatives and Friends: From "Information Wanted" Ads in the Irish-American, 1850-1871 [E 184 I6 I77]
  • Dunkak. Harry M. Freedom, Culture, Labor the Irish of Early Westchester County, New York [N.Y. CO. W522.18]
  • Fitzgerald, Margaret E The Uncounted Irish in Canada and the United States [E 184 I6 F576]
  • Ford, Henry Jones The Scotch-Irish in America, 1851-1925 [E 184 S4 F67]
  • Goodrich, Victor B. Sending Money Home: the Accounts of an Immigrant Financial Agent in Deposit, New York, 1851-1860 [N.Y. L D441.8]
  • Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 [N.Y. L M314.55 G67]
  • McGee, Thomas D'Arcy A History of Irish Settlers in North America, From the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850 [E 184 I6 M16]
  • Myers, Albert Cook Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With Their Early History in Ireland [Penn. G 84.2]
  • O'Brien, Michael J. Pioneer Irish in New England [New Eng. G 58]
  • Ruddock, William T. Linen Threads and Broom Twines: an Irish and American Album and Directory of the People of the Dunbarton Mill, Greenwich, New York, 1879-1952 [N.Y. L G855.4]
  • The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot [E 184 I6 S43]
  • Shea, Ann M. and Marion R. Casey The Irish Experience in New York City: a Select Bibliography [N.Y.C. G 158.1]

Periodicals

  • Cumann Geinealais na hEireann: Journal of the Genealogical Society of Ireland [IRELAND G 1.061]
  • Irish At Home and Abroad [E 184 I6 I68]
  • Irish Genealogical Quarterly [WISC. G 20]
  • Irish Roots [Ireland G 1.08]
  • New York Irish History [N.Y.C. G 158.2]
  • Newsletter of the Irish Family History Forum [E 184 I6 I69]

Microfilms, Microforms, and CD-ROMs

  • 1821 Census: Counties Cavan, Kings, Meath, Galway (burnt fragments) [MICROFILM]
  • 1831 Census: County Londonderry (burnt fragments) [MICROFILM]
  • 1831 Census: County Londonderry [Fiche (Misc. – L)]
  • 1841 Census: County Cork (burnt fragments) [MICROFILM]
  • 1870: Irish in the U.S. Federal Census [CENSUS INDEXES 1870 COMP. DISK]
  • 1871 Townland Index of Ireland [FICHE-MISC (I)]
  • Annual report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, 1924-1953 Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (Itemizes government, church and private records acquired dating from the 17th
  • century on) [Microfilm (Northern Ireland)]
  • Carney, Michael T. Notes and Other Documents on the Carney/Kearney Family of Ireland and New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania [FILE 1 (C2177)]
  • Emigrant Savings Bank records [N.Y. L M314.72 E42 Microfilm]
  • Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864 [Ireland G 2.7 Comp. Disk]
  • Grenham, John Grenham's Irish Surnames [IRELAND G 36.5 COMP. DISK]
  • Griffith, Richard General Valuation of Rateable Property of Ireland [FICHE-MISC (I)]
  • International Land Records: Tithe Applotment Books (for counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone) [Ireland G 2.9 Comp. Disk]
  • International Land Records: Irish Flax Growers [Ireland G 2.91 Comp. Disk]
  • Inventory of the Shirley Papers in the National Library of Ireland (Information relates to the holdings of the Shirley family in the Barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan, 1607-1878) [File (Shirley Papers)]
  • Irish Memorials of the Dead: Journal of the Association fo rthe Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Vols. 1, 2 and 3 [Ireland G 2.8 Comp. Disk]
  • Irish to America, 1846-1865 [E 184 I6 I72 Comp. Disk]
  • O'Neill, David F. Fagan / Cantwell family from White Church, Mallardstown Mills, Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland [FILE 1 (F1313)]
  • Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865 [E 184 I6 I72 COMP. DISK]
  • Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 [E 184 I6 I711COMP. DISK]
  • Surname Index to the 1796 Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlements of Ireland [Fiche (Misc-Ireland)]
  • Tithe Defaulters – Ireland, 1831 (for counties of Limerick and Wexford) [Fiche (Misc. – I)]
  • Vital Records Index : British Isles [2nd ed.] [GREAT BRIT. G 17 COMP. DISK]

Biography/Genealogy

  • Corby, William Memoirs of Chaplain Life: Three Years With the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac [N.Y. G 46.5 69th C67]
  • De Courcy, B.W A Genealogical History of the Milesian Families of Ireland: with the Monument to Brian Boroimhe; the Chart of the Amorical Bearings of the Same Families [IRELAND G 44 1965]
  • Fennessy, Richard J. Fennessy of the County Tipperary: Chronicle of an Irish Family [G F 3636]
  • Inventory of the Shirley Papers in the National Library of Ireland (Information relates to the holdings of the Shirley family in the Barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan, 1607-1878) [FILE (SHIRLEY PAPERS)]
  • MacLysaght, Edward Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins [IRELAND G 16]
  • MacLysaght, Edward More Irish Families [IRELAND G 16]
  • McGuckin, John H. The McGuckins [G M 179]
  • Stothers, Thomas Armagh Families [N.IRE. L AR54.5]
  • Wallace, Martin Famous Irish Lives [IRELAND G 4.1]

Compiled by Catherine M. Ellard, Assistant Librarian

Note. The references listed in the excellent bibliography above are no longer available at the NYG&B Library. They are, however, available at the New York Public Library where our collection is now housed.