Irish Libraries: Archives, Museums & Genealogical Centres: A Visitors’ Guide

This volume grew out of the updating of the author’s earlier Ulster Libraries: Archives, Museums & Ancestral Heritage Centres (1997), being broadened in scope to include the whole island. A number of caveats need to be made at the start. The author states that the “primary target of this guide is the visitor, chiefly the North American visitor, who may be taking or contemplating a trip to Ireland for the first time”. Family history and genealogy, therefore, provide the main orientation. Comprehensiveness is limited to some extent by response – some institutions did not respond, or asked not to be...