Five new volumes in the well-respected Maynooth Studies in Local History series have been published by the Dublin-based Four Courts Press. Each volume runs to 64 pages, is illustrated and is currently on offer from the publishers at €8.95 (standard price €9.95).
Titles and authors are as follows:
- Denis Brenan Bullen (1802-66), Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster – The controversial career of a Cork surgeon, by Michael Hanna.
ISBN: 978-1-84682-969-7. More information. - Peadar Cowan (1903-62), Westmeath GAA administrator and political maverick, by Tom Hunt.
ISBN: 978-1-84682-970-3. More information. - Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo, by Frank Mayes. ISBN: 978-1-84682-971-0. More information.
- The Dublin Cattle Market's decline, 1955-73, by Declan O'Brien.
ISBN: 978-1-84682-972-2. More information. - The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69, by David Byrne. ISBN: 978-1-84682-973-4. More information.
