Offaly Family History Bibliography
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AINSWORTH (John). Report on the Dunne papers. In Anal. Hib., no. 20 (1967), pp 123-147.
APPLEYARD (Rollo). Charles Parsons, his life and work. London, 1983.
ATKINSON (N.D.). Sir Lawrence Parsons, second earl of Rosse, 1756-1841. Ph.D. thesis, University of Dublin (1962).
BAILEY (Bel.). The Bells of Banagher. In Irish Roots no. 26 (1998), p. 6.
BALL WRIGHT (W.B). The Ussher memoirs. London, 1889.
BALL WRIGHT (William). The Boyne peerage case, a forgotten story of the eighteenth century. In The Genealogical Magazine iv (1900-1901), pp 392-397, continued at pp 432-37: continued at pp 497-500. A dispute over the succession to the Boyne peerage and the clandestine marriage of Elizabeth Hadley of Tullamore to Frederick, the third Lord Boyne.
BARRY (Susan). Photograph from the Birr darkroom. Mary, countess of Rosse (1813-1885): early photographer and benefactor. In Stars, shells and bluebells: women scientists and pioneers, Dublin 1997, pp 48-55.
BEWLEY (Edward Thomas). The family of Mulock. Dublin, 1905.
BEWLEY (Edmund Thomas). Some royal descents of the families of Fleetwood, Berry and Homan Mulock. Dublin, 1908.
BOND, WARWICK (R.). (ed). The Marlay Letters, 1778-1820. London, 1937.
BROWN (Robert W.). The Turpin family of Tullamore, Co. Offaly. In The Irish Ancestor, xvi, no. 1 (1984), pp 1-6. Includes Revd. Peter Turpin of Brookfield, chaplain to the earl of Charleville.
BUTLER (Beatrice Bayley). and BUTLER (Katherine). Mrs John O'Brien her life, her work, her friends. In Dublin Hist. Rec., xxxiii, no. 4 (Sept 1980), pp 140-156.
BYRNE (Michael) and KEARNEY (John). Kings County (County Offaly) subscribers to Crimean War 'Patriotic Fund' [Extracted from the King's County Chronicle, 10 Jan. 1855]. In Ir. Fam. Hist. Jn., i (1985), pp 58-64.
CALLAN (Patrick). Rambles in Eireann, by William Bulfin. In Studies (Summer, Winter, 1982), pp 391 - 397.
CAMPBELL (Harriet C.B.). A journey to Florence in 1817. London, 1951. A diary written by the wife of the second earl of Charleville.
CANDY (Catherine). Priestly fictions: popular Irish novelists of the early 20th century. Dublin 1995. Includes a study of Joseph Guinan (1863-1932) born at Cloghan, County Offaly.
CARROLL. True version of the pedigree of Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland. In R.S.A.I. Jn., xvi (1883), pp 187-94.
CARY (Sydney) (ed.). Index to the wills of the diocese of Kildare in the Public Record Office of Ireland. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., iv, no. 6 (July 1905) pp 473-491.
CARY (George Sydney). Index to the intestate administration of the diocese of Kildare, in the Public Record Office of Ireland. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., v, no. 3 (Jan. 1907), pp 185-192.
CONHEADY (Patricia). The Pierce family from Offaly. In Irish Family History Jn., vii (1992), pp 78-83.
COX (Liam). The Magawleys of Calry. In Old Athlone Soc. Jour., i (1969-75), pp 61-71 and 147-60.
COX (Liam). The Mageoghegans. In Riocht na Midhe, iv, no. 3 (1969), pp 63-86.
COX (Liam). The Foxes of Muintir Thaidgean. In Riocht na Midhe, iv, no. 4 (1970), pp 6-23.
COX (Liam). O'Molloys of Fircall. In Riocht na Midhe, v, no. 3 (1973), pp 14-45.
COX (Liam). The MacCoghlans of Delvin Eathra. In Ir. Geneal. iv, no. 6 (Nov. 1973), pp 534-46. Continued in v, no. 1 (Nov. 1974), pp 21-32.
COX (Liam). Leic Mhichil and cnoc Buadha identified. In Riocht na Midhe vi, no. 2 (1976), pp 81-88. Inauguration stones of Molloys, Foxes and Mageoghegans.
COX (Liam). The Moony family of the Doon, County Offaly and other kindred lines. In Irish Family History Jn., ii, (1986), pp 71-82.
COX (Liam). Some account of the O'Shiels of Westmeath and Offaly. In Riocht na Midhe, viii, no. 3 (1990-91), pp 72-87.
COX (Liam). Origin of O'Higgins families. In Riocht na Midhe, ix, no. 3, (1997) pp 62-72.
CUSACK-SMITH (Sir Berry). Leaves from a family tree: being the life of the honourable Sir William Cusack Smith, Baronet, Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland. Brighton, n.d. but c.1900.
DAUNT (O'Neill W.J.). A Life spent for Ireland. London, 1896.
DIGBY (Lettice). My ancestors: being the history of the Digby and Strutt families. London, 1928.
DUNNE (Joe). Dunne - people and places. Ballinakella, 1996.
EGAN (Michael J. S.). Fr. Stephen Daly, Ireland's first capuchin. In Irish Family History Jn., xii, (1996), pp 41-45. A native of the parish of Tisaran.
EGAN (Wm. M.) (ed.). Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878. Major Howard Egan's diary etc. Utah, 1917. Reprinted c.1995. Born near Tullamore.
EGAN-BAKER (Maryan). Edward Egan: "The Poet Egan". In Irish Family History Jn., xi (1995), pp 22-26.
FFOLLIOTT (Rosemary). Game licences for Co. Offaly and Co. Galway in 1821. In The Irish Ancestor, xvii, no. 1 (1985), pp 23-25.
FITZGERALD (Walter). The history and antiquities of the Queen's County barony of Portnahinch, with a pedigree of the O'Dempseys of Clanmaliere and maps of the Clanmaliere territory and a portion of Offaly, c. 1563. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., iv (1903-05), pp 396-454.
FITZGERALD (Walter). The Coat of Arms of the O'Connors of Offaly, and of Lisagh O'Connor of Leixlip, Co. Kildare. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., vi, no. 3 (Jan. 1910), pp241-244.
FITZGERALD (Walter). The duel between two of the O' Connors of Offaly in Dublin Castle on the 12th September 1583. In R.S.A.I. Jn., xl (1910), pp 1-5.
FITZGERALD (Walter). Notes on Sir John MacCoghlan, Knight of Cloghan, Chief of Delvin-MacCoghlan, who died 1590. In R.S.A.I. Jn., xliii (1913), pp 223-31.
FITZGERALD REYNOLDS (H.Y.). Handy of Coolylough and Bracca castle, Co. Westmeath. In Notes and Queries, 21 March 1942, pp 160-162.
FITZGERALD REYNOLDS (Henry). Samuel Handy of Coolylough. In Notes and Queries, no. 74 (1942) p. 240.
FITZPATRICK (Elizabeth). Mairgreag an Einigh O Cearbhaill: "The best of the women of the Gaedhil". In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., xviii (1992-93), pp 20-38.
FRAZER SIMONS (P.). Tenants no more. Richmond, Australia, 1996.
GOODBODY (Michael I. A.). The Goodbody family of Ireland. Essex, 1980.
GOODBODY (Michael I. A.). A Goodbody reunion. In Irish Family History Jn., v(1989), pp 92-93.
GOODBODY (Olive C.). Quaker inventories. In The Irish Ancestor, iii, no. 1 (1971), pp52-62. Includes full inventory of goods of Robert Fayle of Killowen, Castlejordan of 1758.
GRAHAM (D. L.). The Odlums of Offaly. In Irish Family History Jn., v (1989), pp 71-79.
GUIDERA (Patrick). The Story of my Life. Dublin, 1992.
HARRY (Owen G.). The Hon. Mrs. Ward (1827-69), artist, naturalist, astronomer and Ireland's first lady of the microscope. In The Irish Naturalist Journal, xxi, no. 5 (Jan. 1984), pp 193-200.
HAYES CROFTON (Denis). Andrew Hayes leaves the King's County. Kent, 1990.
HENCHY (Patrick). The Joly family: Jaspar Robert Joly and the National Library. In Ir. University Rev., vii, no. 2 (1977), pp 184-198.
HICKEY (E). The Wakelys of Navan and Ballyburly: a discussion of a sixteenth century family. In Riocht na Midhe, v no. 4 (1974), pp 3-19.
HICKEY (Nora M.). The De Berminghams of Leinster, 1170-1370: a study of an anglo-norman family. BA. dissertation. Dept. of Modern History, Maynooth, 1978.
HITCHCOCK (F.C.). Stand to: a diary of the Trenches, 1915-18. London 1937. Reprinted, London, 1988. Son of F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock of Kinnitty and attached to the Leinster regiment.
HOYSTED (Frank). Reminiscences of a chauffeur. n.p., n.d., but 1997. Reminiscences of the chauffeur to the sixth earl of Rosse.
HOWARD-BURY (Charles) and MALLORY (George Leigh). Everest Reconnaissance: the first expedition of 1921. London, 1991. A new edition by Marian Keaney of Bury's and others, Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. (London, 1921).
HOWARD-BURY (Charles). Marian Keaney (ed.). Mountains of Heaven: travels in the Tian Shan mountains, 1913. London, 1990.
HUGHES (Vera). The strange story of Sarah Kelly. Moate, 1983.
ILLINGWORTH (Ruth). Colonel Howard Bury. In Irish Family History Jn., vii (1991), pp 21-25.
JOLY (John). 1857-1933. In Obituary notices of the Royal Society of London, no. 3 (Dec. 1934), pp 259-86.
JOLLY (M.A.). A Portarlington settler and his descendants. London, 1935.
KAVANAGH (Ita). Mistress of the microscope. Mary Ward (the Hon. Mrs W., 1827-1869), an early pioneer of the microscope. In Stars, shells and bluebells: women scientists and pioneers, Dublin, 1997, pp 56-65.
KEARNEY (John). From King's County to Queensland. In Irish Family History Jn., i(1985), pp 58-64.
KEARNEY (John). Surnames of County Offaly. In Irish Roots (1995, no. 4), pp 26-27.
KELLY (Kathleen). Big Mick. Mullingar 1991
KELLY (Margaret). All in a lifetime. n.p., n.d. but c. 1996 Social history of Lusmagh and elsewhere.
KELLY (Martin J.). Father Mogue Kearns. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., xviii, pt 3 (1996-97), pp 348-350. Hanged at Edenderry with Colonel Perry, July 1798.
KIELY (Benedict). Man from the Pampas. In The Capuchin Annual 1948, pp 428 - 436. William Bulfin of Derrinlough, Birr.
LE FANU (T.P.). French veterans at Portarlington. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., xi, no. 4 (1933), pp 177-200.
LINANE (T. J.) and MECHAM (F. A.). The men of '38 and other pioneer priests by 'John O'Brien'. Kilmne, Victoria, Au., 1975. Rev. Michael McAlroy and others inc. Rev. Patrick Dunne. pp 201-223.
LOEBER (Rolf). Biographical dictionary of engineers in Ireland, 1600 - 1730. In Ir. Sword, xiii, no. 52 (1978 - 79) pp 230 - 55. John Hallam of Hallam Hill, Co. Offaly.
MAGAN (William). Umma - More: the story of an Irish Family. Wiltshire, 1983.
MAGAN (William). An Irish boyhood. Durham, 1996.
MASTERS (J.M.). The Ushers of Birr, in Ir. Geneal. v, no. 5 (1978), pp 606-24.
MATHEWS (Thomas). An account of the O'Dempseys chiefs of Clan Maliere. Dublin, 1903.
McGRATH (Cuthbert). Notes on I Dhuinn family. In Collectanea Hibernica no. 2 (1959), pp 13-17.
McKENNA LAWLOR (Susan M. P.). Whatever shines should be observed [quicquid nited notandum]. Dublin, 1998. Two of the five Irish female scientists featured here are Mary Ward (1827-1869) pp 29-55 and Mary, countess of Rosse (1813-1885), pp 15-28. The bibliographical detail on Mary Ward will interest collectors and the biographical detail encourage young scientists.
MELEADY (Breda). The Joly family. Typescript, 1992, OCL.
MOORE (Desmond). Love's Old Sweet Song. Tullamore, 1997. A short work on the songwriter, James Lynam Molloy, of the Cornalour, Rahan and Clara family.
NICHOLLS (K.W.). The O Dunnes of Iregan. Typescript, 1973. O.H.A.S. library.
NICHOLLS (K.W.) (ed). The O Molloys of Fear Ceall. Typescript, 1975. O.H.A.S. library.
NICHOLLS (K. W.). The MacCoghlans. In The Irish Genealogist, vi, no. 4 (1983), pp 445-460.
NICHOLLS (K. W.) (ed.). The O Doyne (O Duinn) Manuscript. Dublin 1983.
NUTTALL SMITH (G. N.). The chronicles of a puritan family in Ireland: [Smith (formerly) of Glasshouse, Shinrone]. Oxford, 1923.
O'BYRNE (Robert). Couture for a countess: Lady Rosse's wardrobe. In Irish Arts Review, xii (1996), pp 156-163. On the fashion and visual sense of Anne Messel, later sixth countess of Rosse, 1902-1992.
O'CARROLL (E.). Pedigree of the O' Carroll family. 1883.
O'CARROLL (Simon). The genealogy and rulers of Eile O Cearbhaill. In Eile, ii (1983-84), pp 1-27.
O'CONNOR MORRIS (William). Memories and thoughts of a life. London, 1895.
O'CONNOR MORRIS (William). Memoirs of Gerald O' Connor of the princely house of the O'Connors of Offaly in the kingdom of Ireland. London, 1903. More fiction than fact.
O'DONOVAN (JOHN). Covenant between Mageoghegan and Fox, with brief historical notices of the two families. In The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society, Dublin, 1846, pp 179-197.
O'DUIBIR (Pol). Captain John Warneford Armstrong and the Sheares brothers. In Ir. Sword, xiii, no. 50 (Summer 1977), pp 70-72. Excerpts from Armstrong's diary, 1792-1851. Now in T.C.D. (ms 6409/10).
O'GRADY (Guillamore). Index to Kildare marriage licence bonds. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., xi (1930-33), no. 2, pp 43-58. Continued at xi, no. 3, pp 114-133, xii (1935-45), no. 1, pp 12-29 and pp 74-98.
O'LEARY (Liam). Rex Ingram; master of the silent cinema. First published 1980, second edition, 1993. The life of Reginald I.M. Hitchcock, son of the historian and rector of Kinnitty, F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock.
O'MAOLEACHLAINN (Padraig I.). Anthony Macgeoghegan, (1598-1664), In Teathba, i, no. 4 (1978), pp 290-308. For a note on this writer see Marian Keaney Westmeath Authors (Mullingar, 1969), p. 12 where reference is made to two unpublished thesis dealing with Anthony MacGeoghegan and secondly Clonmacnois and the 12th century synod.
ORPEN (Goddard H.). The Fitzgeralds, Barons of Offaly. In R.S.A.I. Jn., xliv (1914), pp 99-113.
OWENS BLACKBURNE (E.). 'Margaret O'Carroll' in Illustrious Irishwomen, being memoirs of some of the most noted Irishwomen from the earliest ages to the present century, (London, 1877), pp 61-71.
PARSONS (Charles). The scientific papers of William Parsons, third earl of Rosse, 1800-1867. London, 1926.
REYNOLDS (Adrian P.). The man who walked off the map: Lt. Col. Charles K. Howard Bury (1883-1963): M.A. dissertation, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1997.
RICHARDSON (J. M.). Six generations of friends in Ireland, 1655 to 1690. London, 1893. Thomas Wilson of Edenderry, pp 1-76.
ROLLESTON (C. H.). Portrait of an Irishman: a biographical sketch of T. W. Rolleston. London, 1939.
ROSSE (Earl of). William Parsons, third earl of Rosse. In Hermathena, cvii (Autumn 1968), pp 5-13.
RYAN (Brendan). Where the Brosna flows: the life and poetry of John M. Doyle. Ferbane, 1991.
SADLEIR (T.U.). Kildare diocesan wills. In Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., XII, NO. 3 (1935-45), pp 115-123. Continued at no. 4, pp 188-89, continued at no. 6 (1941-42), pp 269-272, continued at xii no. 7 (1943), pp 330-31; continued at xii, no. 8 (1944-45), pp 425-27.
SCHARF (John H.). The Bi-centenary celebrations of the birth of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 1737-1937. Baltimore 1988. Signatory of the American declaration of independence and a descendant of O'Carrolls of Ely.
SHAW (J.C.H.). The family of Charlton, of Clonmacnoise and formerly of Curraghtown. In Ir. Geneal., iv, no. 2 (Oct. 1969), pp 117-121.
SMITH (Ken). Turbina: the story of Charles Parsons and his ocean greyhound. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996.
STODDART (John). A brief journal of the life, travels and labours of love... Thomas Wilson who departed this life, at his own habitation near Edenderry... 1725. London, new edition, 1784.
STODDART (John). A brief narrative of the Life... John Barcroft who (died) 1723. Dublin, 1730. A member of the Quaker meeting at Edenderry.
STONE (M.E.). Some notes on the Fox family of Kilcoursey in King's Co. Chicago, 1890.
STONEY (Major). Some old annals of the Stoney family. London, 1879.
STONEY and the electron: papers from a seminar held in the Royal Dublin Society on Nov. 20 1991 to commemorate the centenary of the naming of the electron by George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911). R.D.S., Dublin, 1993. Stoney was born at Clareen. The papers are by James O'Hara and James McConnell.
STOREY (Harold J.). Notes on some Portarlington families, 1860-1893. In The Irish Ancestor, xvii, no. 2 (1985), pp 82-95.
TODD (J.H.). Obits of Kilcormac. In The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society, Dublin, 1846, pp99-105. Principally concerns the family of O'Molloy.
VAN DEVANTER (Ann C.). (ed.). 'Anywhere so long as there be freedom'. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, his family and his Maryland. Baltimore, 1975.
WALSH (Laurence). Richard Heaton of Ballyskenagh, 1601 - 1666. Roscrea, 1978.
WALSH (Micheline). Further notes towards a history of the womenfolk of the Wild Geese. In Ir. Sword, v no. 2 (Summer 1962), pp 133 - 145. Magawly family of Kilcormac pp 139 - 141 also reference to a microfilm of Magawly family archives in U.C.D.
WALSH (Paul). The Mageoghegans. In Colm O Lochlainn (ed.), Irish Chiefs and Leaders, Dublin, 1960, pp 226-69.
WALSH (Paul). O Maolmhuaidh of Fir Ceall. In Colm O Lochlainn (ed.), Irish Chiefs and Leaders. Dublin, 1960, pp 281-84. For further information on Paul Walsh see Marian Keaney, Westmeath Authors (Mullingar, 1969), pp 198-226. This includes John Brady 'The writings of Paul Walsh in Ir. Hist. Studies, iii, no. 10 (Sept, 1942), pp 193-208.
WARBURTON (Richard). Memoir of the Warburton family of Garryhinch, King's Co. Dublin, 1848; 2nd edition, 1881.
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