City and Parish of Armagh - History - Book List

NLI = National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
QUB = Queen's University, Belfast.

• ---, Armagh history & society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Iri... , Geography Publications, Dublin, 2001 (QUB)
• ---, The Earle of Corkes victorie, and Tyrones overthrow. Being a warranted relation of the great overthrow which the Earle of Corke gave to the rebels at foure severall times, which makes most of the rebels flye out of cities and townes, and keepe themselves in the woods. Also the driving away of the rebels out of the city of Armagh. With the copy of a letter sent from the Earle of Tyrone to Sir Iohn Burlacie one of the Lord chiefe justices in Ireland. All which newes was brought into London upon Munday the 13. of December by John Hodges one of the Irish posts, printed by John Greensmith, London, 1641 (NLI)
• Aitchison, Nicholas Boyter, Armagh and the royal centres in early medieval Ireland : monuments, cosmolog... , Cruithne Press, Glasgow; Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk; 1994 (QUB)
• Allison, Herbert Thackwray (1854-1947), [compiled by] Desmond Fitzgerald and Roger Weatherup, The way we were - historic Armagh photographs from the Allison Collection, Friar's Bush, Belfast, in association with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1993 (NLI, QUB)
• Armagh District Lunatic Asylum, Fifth annual report of the Armagh District Lunatic Asylum, submitted by the manager, to the Board of Directors, printed by R. Stevenson, 38, Scotch-Street, Armagh 1831 (NLI)
• Betham, William, Sir (1779-1853), Irish antiquarian researches, by Sir William Betham, W. Curry, jun. and co.: Dublin, [etc., etc., 1826]-27 (NLI)
• Butler, John (Christopher John), Seeing stars - two hundred years of astronomy in Armagh, 1790-1990, catalogue written by John Butler, Armagh Observatory, [Armagh Observatory], Armagh, [1990] (NLI)
• Currie, James Russell Leslie, The runaway train: Armagh (1889), David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971 (NLI, QUB)
• Day, Charles Stephen, Political violence in the Newry/Armagh area, 1912-1925 (QUB)
• Dreyer, J. L. E. (John Louis Emil) (1852-1926), An historical account of the Armagh observatory, H. Greenwood, Printer, Armagh, 1883 (NLI)
• Farmer, Jacob, 17th cent., A letter sent out of Ireland. To one Mr. Bell, a merchant, at this time living in St. Thomas Apostles. Being, a true relation of the present estate of Ireland, as it now stands under the present persecution of the papists. Also, their carriage towards Dublin, and their cruell and most ty-tyranicall [sic] burning of Armath. Sent over by a gentleman from Ireland, unto a worthy merchant of this citie in a letter, the which letter was openly read on Friday last, upon the Royall Exchange in London, and the contents confirmed by a gentleman, who but lately arrived from Ireland, and was spectator of most of those bloody and tragicall proceedings, printed for Iohn Smith, London, 1642 (NLI)
• Gwynn, John, D.D., D.C.L., ed., The Book of Armagh; edited with introduction and appendices by John Gwynn, D.D., D.C.L, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1913 (NLI)
• Harkness, David, and Mary O'Dowd, editors, The town in Ireland: papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, Belfast, 30 May-2 June 1979, by Irish Conference of Historians (1979 : Belfast, Northern Ireland),Appletree Press, Belfast, 1981, ISBN: 090465172X (NLI)
• Harris, Walter (1686-1761), (Index locorum Hiberniae: Armagh Public Library ms g.III.2) (QUB)
• Hughes, A.J. and William Nolan, Armagh History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, Geography Publications, 2001, ISBN 090660236X
• Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1737-1745: Devonshire), By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, offering a reward for the apprehending and convicting of the persons concerned in the robbing of the post-boy, between Newry and Armagh, printed by George Grierson, Dublin, 1737 [i.e. 1738] (NLI)
• Jackson, Thomas, Remarks on Dr. Jacob's pamphlet, respecting "the bye-laws for the district asylums in Ireland." Addressed to the governors of the Armagh Asylum, John M'Watters, [pr.], Armagh, 1834 (NLI)
• Matthews, Gail Roberta, The early history and archaeology of Armagh City (QUB)
• McCafferty, Nell (1944-), The Armagh women, Co-op Books, Dublin, 1981 (QUB)
• McCreary, Alf, St Patrick's City: the story of Armagh, Blackstaff, Belfast, 2001 (QUB)
• Miller, David W. [David William] (1940-), Armagh troubles: 1785-1795 (QUB)
• Montague, John (1929-), Time in Armagh, Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, 1993 (QUB)
• Moore, Patrick (1923-), Armagh Observatory a history, 1790-1967, Armagh Observatory, [Armagh], 1967 (NLI, QUB)
• Ó Muirí­, Réamonn, Orangemen, Repealers and the killing of John Boyle in Armagh, 12 July 1845, [n.p., the author?, 1986] (NLI)
• O'Neill, C. P. & S.P., Armagh Post Office : its history and post-marks, Annaverne Press, [Armagh?], [1984?] (NLI, QUB)
• Paterson, T. G. F., The historical background of the Beresford Arms Hotel, Armagh, Universal Publishing Co., Glengormley, [1969] (NLI)
• Robinson, Rev. T.R., Armagh Observatory, Places of 5,345 stars observed from 1828 to 1854, at the Armagh observatory, Printed at the expense of Her Majesty's government, on the recommendation of the Royal society, A. Thom & sons, Dublin, 1859 (NLI)
• Rogers, Edward, A record of the City of Armagh from the earliest period to the present time, Printed at the Armagh Guardian Office, by John Thompson, Armagh, 1861 (NLI)
• Salmon, James (17th cent.), Bloudy nevves from Ireland, or the barbarous crueltie by the papists used in that kingdome. By putting men to the svvord, deflovvring women, and dragging them up and downe the streets, and cruelly murdering them, and thrusting their speeres through their little infants before their eyes, and carrying them up and downe on pike-points, in great reproach, and hanging mens quarters on their gates in the street, at Armagh, Logall, at the Fort of Lease, and divers other places in Ireland. As also, the bloudy acts of Lord Mack-queere their ri[n]g-leader, and cousin to that arch-rebell Mack-queere Generall to Tyron, in the time of Queene Elizabeth of never dying memory. Related by James Salmon lately come from thence, who hath lived there with his wife and children, these 10 yeeres last past, and now to escape the bloud-thirsty rebels, made an escape away by night, who is here resident in this city, Decemb. the 1. 1641, printed for Marke Rookes, and are to be sold in Grubstreet, neare to the Flying Horse, London, 1641 (NLI)
• Stuart, James, 1764-1842, Historical memoirs of the city of Armagh: for a period of 1373 years, comprising a considerable position of the general history of Ireland; a refutation of the opinions of Dr. Ledwich, respecting the non-existence of St. Patrick; and an appendix, of the learning, antiquities, and religion of the Irish nation, printed by Alexander Wilkinson ...for Longman ...[et.al.], Newry, 1819 (NLI)
• Stuart, James (1764-1842), Historical memoirs of the city of Armagh, Browne & Nolan, Dublin, 1900 (NLI)
• Waterman, Dudley; compiled and edited by C.J. Lynn, Excavations at Navan Fort, 1961-71, County Armagh, Stationary Office, Belfast, 1997 (NLI)
• Weatherup, Roger, Armagh historic photographs of the primatial city, Friar's Bush Press, Belfast, [1990] (NLI, QUB)
• Weir, David Alan, An environmental history of the Navan area of C. Armagh (QUB)
• Woods, Damian, The fateful day: a commemorative book of the Armagh railway disaster June 12th 1889, Armagh District Council in close cooperation with Armagh County Museum, 1989 (NLI, QUB)