Romanticism, Nationalism and Irish Antiquarian Societies, 1840-8

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Romanticism, Nationalism and Irish Antiquarian Societies, 1840-80
Damien Murray
Maynooth Monographs Series Minor lll
The Department of Old and Middle Irish National University of Ireland Maynooth 2000
ISBN 0 901519

Written in English.

The subjects of this book are three societies who published historical documents and manuscript texts during the period 1840-80. The three societies in question were the Irish Archaeological Society (founded in 1840) and the Celtic Society ) 1845) – these two merged in 1854 – and the Ossianic Society (1853).
Among them the three societies issued thirty-nine volumes.