D’ALTON, Right Rev. Monsignor. History of the Archdiocese of Tuam. With folding map of the diocese, and illustrations.

Two volumes. Dublin: The Phoenix Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo. pp. (1) xv, 388, (2) xi, 379. Green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt. A very good set. Very scarce.
The contents includes chapters on: Pre-Christian Times; The Introduction of Christianity; Early Christian Times; During the Danish Wars; The First Archbishops; Tuam in the Thirteenth Century; Irish and Anglo-Irish; The Fifteenth Century; The Reformation Period; Troubled Times; The Suppressed Religious Houses; Under the Stuarts; O’Queely and De Burgo; The Penal Times; The Dawn of Toleration; The Union Period; The Nineteenth Century; John McHale; The Famine and After; Proselytism and Evictions; The Closing Years; The New Regime; The Twentieth Century; The Chapter of Tuam; The Deanery of Ballinrobe; The Deanery of Castlebar; The Deanery of Claremorris; The Deanery of Clifden; The Deanery of Tuam; The Deanery of Westport; Writers of the Archdiocese.

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