DWYER, Rev. Philip. The Diocese of Killaloe. From the Reformation to the Close of the Eighteenth Century. With an appendix, folding map of the diocese and illustrations.

Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. Octavo. pp. vi, 602. Brown cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on spine. Rebacked, new endpapers. A very good copy. Very scarce.
Rev. Canon Philip Dwyer was born in Dublin (1822-1905) the son of a barrister and after studying at Trinity College, Dublin, was ordained as a priest with his first appointment in 1846 to the parish of Dunkerrin, County Clare. For the next thirty-eight years Dwyer served as a priest and later as a Prebend and vicar in the county, during which time he initiated the building of the new St. Columba’s Church and gained the reputation as the ‘historian of Clare’. Dwyer published six books on county Clare and his Diocese of Killaloe was published shortly before he left Ireland for Canada. Drawing heavily on State Papers, Patent Roles, Inquisitions, Fiants and other manuscript material available to him, Dwyer was also the first historian to make particular use the Depositions made during the reign of Charles I.

[Cat 160]