IRISH GENEALOGY, HERALDRY AND FAMILY HISTORY: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following material can be consulted via the Reading Room of the National Library of Ireland, in the usual way. Web pages are indicated where applicable.

McAnlis, Virginia Wade, The consolidated index to the records of the Genealogical Office, Dublin (Port Angeles, n.d.). [Now online at www.nli.ie/en/heraldry-collections.aspx ]

Sources: A National Library of Ireland database for Irish research, [ http://sources.nli.ie ] contains over 180,000 catalogue records for Irish manuscripts (including Genealogical Office manuscripts, and for articles in Irish periodicals. You can search across:

• All of the National Library's manuscripts catalogued up to 1989 (see the Library’s online catalogue for the manuscripts subsequently catalogued) • Irish manuscripts held in other libraries and archives in Ireland and worldwide, listed between the 1940s and the 1970s • Articles, reviews and other content that appeared in over 150 Irish periodicals up to 1969

Hood, Susan, Royal roots, republican inheritance: the survival of the Office of Arms (Dublin, 2002).

Ó Comáin, Micheál, The Poolbeg book of Irish heraldry (Dublin, 1991).

Williams, Nicholas, Armas ( Baile Átha Cliath, 2001).

Woulfe, Rev. Patrick, Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish names and surnames (Baile Átha Cliath, 1923).

MacLysaght (Edward), Irish families: their names, arms and origins (Dublin, various editions 1957 - ).

MacLysaght, Edward, More Irish families Dublin (Dublin, 1960).

MacLysaght, Edward, Supplement to Irish families (Dublin, 1960).

Kennedy, Patrick, Kennedy’s Book of arms (Canterbury, 1967).

Fox-Davies, Arthur C., The book of public arms……… (London, 1915). [Includes Irish arms.]

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh and Maguire, Fidelma, Irish names (Dublin 1981, 1990). Hanks, Patrick and Hodges, Flavia, A dictionary of surnames (Oxford 1990). [Irish surnames included.]

Burke, J. Bernard, The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (Baltimore, 1969). [1st edition 1842.]

Ó Muraile, ed., Leabhar Mor na nGenealach: the great book of Irish genealogies, compiled (1645-66) by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, vols. 1-V (Dublin, 2003). [Genealogies of Gaelic and Old English families.]

Grenham, John, Guide to the Genealogical Office (Dublin, 1998).

Grenham, John, Tracing your Irish ancestors (Dublin, 2006).

Mac Conghail, Máire and Gorry, Paul, Tracing Irish Ancestors; a practical guide to Irish genealogy (Glasgow, 1997).

Fairbairn, James, Fairbairn’s book of crests of the families of Great Britain and Ireland (Baltimore, 1993).

The following is a list of additional reference material relating to heraldry in general.

Brooke-Little, J.P., Boutells’s heraldry (London 1970).

Morenas, Henri Jougla de, Grand armorial de France, vols 1-6 (1934-49). [Includes Irish arms.]

Elvin, Charles Norton, A dictionary of heraldry (London, 1969).

Elvin, Charles Norton, Elvin’s handbook of Mottoes, revised with supplement and index by Charles Pinces ……… (London, 1971).

Friar, Stephen, A new dictionary of heraldry (London, 1987).

Gillespie, Fergus, ‘Heraldry in Ireland: an introduction’, The Double Tressure: Journal of the Heraldry Society of Scotland, 23, pp.6-25.