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Got a story of a Scots
ancestor? Then do send it in for inclusion on these pages to alastair@electricscotland.com
- Clans
and Families of Ireland and Scotland
Here you will find excellent information on the history of the
Gael and a good read to get you started on understanding the ties
between Ireland and Scotland.
- Annals
of the Four Masters
The Annals of the Four
Masters is an extremely large and complex work and is considered
anonymous but covers the history of Ireland from BC up to
1616. If you are looking for cross references to battles,
people and places you'd be advised to download this so it can be
searched. This CELT site also provides many other historical
texts.
- A
history of the Irish Race
The Irish race of today is popularly known as the
Milesian Race, because the genuine Irish (Celtic) people were
supposed to be descended from Milesius of Spain, whose sons, say the
legendary accounts, invaded and possessed themselves of Ireland a
thousand years before Christ. Here you will find a very interesting
account of the history of Ireland.
- Irish
History on the Web
This is a site dedicated to providing you with the history of
Ireland and many links to historical sites. Rather than try to
replicate this ourselves we feel this one site will lead you to
pretty well as much history as you can handle.
- Cookstown
A short history of the town of Cookstown.
- OGYGIA, or,
A Chronological Account of Irish Events
Collected from very Ancient Documents, faithfully compared with each
other, and supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Writings
of the First Nations of the Globe, written originally in Latin by
Roderic O'Flaherty, Translated by The Rev. James Hely, A.B. in two
volumes (1793)
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Wild Sports of the West
With Legendary Tales and Local Sketches by William Hamilton Maxwell
(1832) (pdf)
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Illustrations of the Scenes of Killarney
By Isaac Weld (1812) (pdf)
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