James S. Donnelly - The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question

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THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORK

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORK

The Rural Economy and the Land Question

JAMES S. DONNELLY, JR.

First published in 1975 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd; reprinted in 1987

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THE LAND
AND THE PEOPLE OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
CORK

The Rural Economy and
the Land Question

by

JAMES S. DONNELLY, JR.

Routledge & Kegan Paul

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published in Great Britain in 1975

Reprinted in 1987

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Note: For other abbreviations used in footnotes, see Rules for contributors to Irish Historical Studies, second edition, by T. W. Moody, in Irish Historical Studies, supplement I (Jan. 1968).

IT IS BEYOND my ability either to recall all of my obligations or to acknowledge properly those which I do remember. My ardent wish would be to do both. Among the many individuals who generously assisted me in locating manuscripts and other documents in private keeping, I am particularly grateful to Sir John Ainsworth, Mr C. J. F. MacCarthy, Mr Michael Mulcahy, Professor David O'Mahony, the late Eoin O'Mahony, Mr Seamus Coigligh, and Dom Mark Tierney, O.S.B. For countless favours in this respect as well as many others, I gladly record my deep indebtedness to my friend Pdraig Maidn, Cork County Librarian.

For their generosity in allowing me to consult records in private ownership and possession, or to quote from documents in copyright, I wish to thank Charles M. Barry and Son, P. W. Bass and Company, Mr R. P. Beamish, Sir Richard La Touche Colthurst, the late Henry L. Conner and his executors, Mr John F. Conolly, the Secretary of the Cork Archives Council, Viscountess Doneraile, Sir Terence E. P. Falkiner, Mr Thomas H. M. Gollock, Mrs Beatrice Grosvenor, Miss Phyllis Hodder, Mr H. H. D. Holroyd-Smyth, the Director of the Irish Folklore Commission, Commander M. C. M. Jephson, the late Brigadier M. D. Jephson, C.B.E., the Directors of Lismore Estates Ltd, Miss Cynthia Longfield, the Earl of Midleton, the Directors of Midleton Estates Ltd, Mr J. W. Moher, Moore, Keily, and Lloyd, the Director and Trustees of the National Library, Dublin, Mr W. P. Worth Newenham, W. E. O'Brien and Company, The O'Donovan, the Rev. Thomas A. O'Regan, Lord Ormathwaite, Mr Michael Powell, the Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office, Dublin, Mrs C. E. M. Shelswell-White, the late Benjamin Shorten, and Warrens, Solicitors, of London. Without their co-operation and willingness to suffer inconvenience, this book would not have been written. Extracts from two letters in the Cowdray Archives appear by courtesy of the Right Hon. the Viscount Cowdray, with acknowledgments to the County Archivist of West Sussex. I am also grateful to the Cork University Press for permission to reprint a table from Raymond D. Crotty's Irish agricultural production: its volume and structure (1966).

For their expert advice and efficient service, I am heavily indebted to the staffs of the Boston College Library, the British Museum Newspaper Library, the Baker Library of Columbia University, the Cork City Library, the Cork County Library, the Cork Public Museum, the Guildford Museum and Muniment Room, the Kress, Law School, and Widener Libraries of Harvard University, the House of Lords Record Office, the Irish Folklore Commission, the Kinsale Regional Museum, the Customs House Library, London, the National Library of Ireland, the National Registry of Archives, the Public Record Office, Dublin, the Public Record Office, London, the Royal Irish Academy, the State Paper Office, Dublin Castle, the Tipperary County Library, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, the Fletcher Library of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the West Sussex County Record Office.

I have benefited at various stages of my work from conversations or correspondence with Professor Galen Broeker, Professor Thomas N. Brown, the late K. H. Connell, Dr Kevin Danaher, Professor J. H. Delargy, Professor E. R. R. Green, Professor Emmet Larkin, Mr Frank Mawson, Professor Kevin B. Nowlan, Professor John O'Donovan, Dr Liam O'Sullivan, Mr Sen Silleabhin, Dr Barbara L. Solow, Professor F. M. L. Thompson, the late Maureen Wall, and Dr Thomas Wall.