O’DWYER, Sir Michael. The History of the O’Dwyers. Originally published as The O’Dwyers of Kilnamanagh. The History of an Irish Sept.

Preface and biographical profile by Tom O’Dwyer. With coloured coat of arms, illustrations and maps. Limerick: Celtic Bookshop, 2000. Second edition. Octavo. pp. viii, 468. Special edition bound in quarter calf on brown buckram boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket.
Here is described the economic history of a typical Irish sept or clan settled in the heart of Tipperary from the seventh to the seventeenth century. This book throws new light on the Civil War in Munster, the Treaty of Cahir in 1652 with Colonel Sankey (representing Cromwell), by which Colonel Edmund O’Dwyer transferred his brigade to the Spanish service, the O’Dwyers in the Irish Brigades of France and Spain, the translation of the remnants of the sept beyond the Shannon, the distribution of Kilnamanagh under the Cromwellian and Restoration settlements, and the Land War of two centuries, ending in the recent recovery by some of the sept of a portion of their lost possessions.

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