HISTORY OF CLARE AND THE DALCASSIAN CLANS OF TIPPERARY, LIMERICK, AND GALWAY. By Rev. P. White. M. H. Gill & Son: Dublin, 1893. xv + 398 pages, plus two oversized maps.

This interesting and rather scarce work is an important reference for the Irish researcher. Genealogists must be reminded again and again that their family genealogies will make more sense, and be easier to trace, if they first get a good grasp on the history of the area their ancestors lived. Well, here is just such a history for southwestern Ireland. Also included is much information on the history of the Dalcassian Septs, especially O'Brien, O'Donnell, MacNamara, O'Grady and O'Shaughnessy. As was common with books of that era, each chapter includes a brief description at the beginning of what one can expect from that chapter. Here are a few of the subject headings given:

Extent -- Population -- Geographical Features -- Earliest known History -- Origin and Division of the Thomond Clans -- St. Patrick blesses Clare -- Mode of election of Chief, Prince, and King -- Danish Invasion -- Mortogh Mor, last Dalcassian Ard Righ -- Diarmid MacMurrough -- English Invasion --O'Heney, Bishop of Killaloe-- Clare Castle--Battle of Dysart O'Dea -- The Black Death -- O'Daly of Corcomroe -- Introduction of Clan Sheehy and Clan Sweeney -- First Great Confiscation -- Proposed Extermination of Catholics-- John O'Maloney of Killaloe surprised near Quin -- Families Transported to Clare--Origin of Titles of most Present Owners-- Charles Lucas-- Thomas Dermody -- Tom Steele --Father Murphy of Corofin--Workhouses--The Famine--O'Gorman, O'Donnell, and Doyle-- Fenianism.

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