- WANTS LIST -

Last amended: 13 June 2011 - 200 entries approx. Some multiples.

This is our Roscommon Books/Periodicals “Want-List” If you have any books, magazines, newspapers etc. from Roscommon for sale or to trade, please contact us. If you have something that does not appear on this list, we might still want it. We might not have heard of it and therefore the omission. Please contact us anyway. Roscommon related ephemera – documents, billheads, posters, postcards, letters, photographs, envelopes, legal papers etc. etc. always wanted.

Book/Periodical Name

Author

Date

Remarks

1,500 Years of an Irish Priest  ?

Patrick A. Sharkey

1940’s?

Local history about Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon ?

1951 – 2001. All Ireland Minor Football Champions 1951 – Souvenir Programme. May 2001.

Committee

2001

Produced for a celebration of the 1951 win.

ü

1939

A General Account of the Roscommon Infirmary from the opening of it in Aug. 1767 to the 1^st. Aug. 1769.

1769?

W. Sleator, Dublin. Single page.

A Historical & Genealogical Memoir of the O’Connors, Kings of Connaught & their Descendants.

Roderick O’Connor

1861

A home in the West for the Redemptorist Order.

Francis Beirne

n.d.

One page leaflet.

A Lively Tour of Kiltoom.

John J. Kenny

1980’s?

Folklore from Kiltoom area. (Serialised in Roscommon Champion in 1980’s).

ü

A Monument Listing for Co. Roscommon.

A. Gannon

1972

n.d.

Susan Stairs (writer).

Anne S. King-Harman (artist).

1990

A Statistical Account of the County of Roscommon.

Rev. John Keogh

1683

31 pages? Was this part of a bigger report??

ca. 1977

1921

Age is Opportunity (Magazine).

Roscommon Active Age Group

1990 to date

1990, 91, 92, & 96 required. (First, second, third & seventh collections). 

An Abbey Town of Ireland.

Rev. James J. Kelly

1901

Dublin

ü

1909

Ardcarne Messenger.

Fr. Raymond Browne.

1958 - 1970

All issues required.

Ardcarne Telephone Directory.

St. Michaels GAA Club.

Two editions. 2^nd edition some years after 1^st.

?

1993

Ballintober Castle.

Robert P. McDonnell.

1913

Pamphlet (Ballintubber castle?)

Bishop Hodsons Grammar School, Centenary magazine 1869 – 1969.

1969

Boyle. 57 pp.

ü

Boyle Abbey & the architecture of the Cistercian Abbeys of Ireland.

G. M. Hills.

?

1913

1849

1993

Book of the Irvings.

Col. Richard Irving.

1907

Irvings of Rathmoyle, Co. Roscommon

Buildings & Sites of Historical / Artistic interest in Co. Roscommon.

Maurice Craig.

1976

An Foras Forbatha

Cam of St. Bride.

Maire C. Ní Ceallaigh.

1907

Athlone

Castlerea Parish GAA History 1884 – 1984.

Colm Hannelly.

1984

ü

Castlerea St. Kevins GAA Club newsletter.

1977

Were newsletters for any other year produced??

ü

1993

2010

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Strokestown.

Rev. Francis Beirne.

Poster w/ history.

Church of the Sacred Heart, Whitehall, Tarmonbarry 1897 – 1997.

Committee.

1997

Centenary Celebration 28^th. July 1997.

ü

Cloonbonniff Review.

???

1994

Annual?

Clooncan School Reunion Magazine.

1995

Cloonfad Annual Parish Magazine.

Parish Committee.

1992 to date

1994, 96, 98, 99, 2000, 01 and 03 required.

Cloverhill – A Social History.

Oran Development Committee.

Nov. 2000

ü

Co. Roscommon Annual Ploughing Championships - Souvenir Booklet.

Roscommon Ploughing Association.

Since 1994?

1^st. & 2^nd. (1994 – ‘95) and 8^th., 9^th & 10^th. (2001 – ’04) required.

Co. Roscommon Family History Society Publications /..

• Annual Journal
• Moyfinne Journal
• Irish Connections Journal
• Research Aids

Maureen Rendell / Co. Roscommon Family History Society.

Various

Since 1992?

Many issues of all publications required. If you have any please contact me.

Co. Roscommon Sports Directory?

????

1983

??

Comhdháil an Chraoibhín – Conference Proceedings.

Douglas Hyde Summer School.

1988 to ?

Need 1988, 1990, & 1992.

1992

Drumlion Centenary 1856 – 1956.

Sermon by Rev. F.C. Kellaher.

1956

History of church. Ever Published?

Drumlion Chalice Centenary Celebration 1884 – 1984.

1984

4 page pamphlet.

ü

Echoes (Newspaper).

Ballaghaderreen.

1986 to date

1987, 90, 92, 93, 97 and 98 required.

Elphin Community School Magazine. (Clover).

Elphin Community School.

2003 to date?

2003, 2005 issues required.

Emigrant & Émigré: George Thomas Plunkett, Easpag Aill Finne 1814 - 1827.

Rev. John J. McGreevy.

1992

Boyle.

Failte go Cortobair – Carrick on Shannon.

Cortober Residents Awareness Association.

2000

Fairymount Parish Remembers the Great Famine (or similar wording)?

 ??

1996

Boyle

Fairymount School, Parish Souvenir Booklet?

 ??

1996

Farm Report -Drumboylan Farm, Co. Roscommon.

Teagasc

1968

1918

Five Years of Playing Like Hell.

Dec. 1977

Kilmore GAA

ü

Fuerty News (Parish Newsletter).

Parish Council?

Rev. Thomas J. Lavin.

1970 - 1973

Several issues per year. All required.

ü

Fuinneóg.

Kilbegnet / Ballinakill Historical Society

1979, 1980 & 1981

All issues required.

GAA Football Programmes – Club & County.

Various

Many needed. Please contact us.

GAA Pitch Opening Programmes.

Club Committees.

1980

Jun’83

Jul’83

Aug’84

May’85

May’86

May’89

Ballaghaderreen

Oran

Western Gaels

St. Barry’s

Tulsk

Michael Glaveys

Kilglass

Genealogical History of the family of Brabazon.

Hercules Sharpe.

1825

Paris.

General Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland – County Roscommon.

Richard Griffith

1850’s

Various Unions required: Athlone, Ballintober North & South, Boyle, Moycarne etc.

1989

Heritage Guide to Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon.

Gerry Kennedy

1989

Killala, Co. Mayo

Historical & Genealogical Record of the Coote Family.

Rev. A. de Vlieger

1900

Lousanne.

Iris Leabhar na Feise Móire, Rát-Cruachain. (Rathcroghan Feis-Mór).

Local Committee

1924 to ?

Started in 1924: Cruachán. 1926: Strokestown? (Have 1924) Was it run in subsequent years?

Is this the right road to Gortaganny?

Gortaganny National School (Frances Healy)

1997

ü

Kilbride Parish Telephone Directory.

Local students.

First and second series. NOT 2006 (3^rd) issue.

Kilmurray Community Centre, Souvenir Booklet.

Rev. M. Mulvaney

1989?

Purcell Print, Boyle.

ü

Kingsland, county Roscommon, it’s people, past & present.

Kingsland National School Reunion Committee

1994

Kingsland N S Souvenir Booklet

ü

1980.

Lands of Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon, Returns to Orders of the House of Lords dated 16 & 19 February 1847.

House of Lords

1847

Government Report.

Lineal Descent of the O’Connors of the County of Roscommon.

Roderick O’Connor

1862

1846 & 1849

Lough Key.

Jim McGarry

1980’s?

Roscommon Herald, Boyle.

ü

Lough Ree.

M. Mac D. Gunning

1956?

Small 12 page, 5 inch X 4 inch pamphlet?

ü

Macalla (Magazine).

Convent of Mercy, Roscommon

1991 to date

Many issues required. Please contact us if you have any.

Mantua National School 1822 – 1997 Souvenir Book.

Michael Mulleady (ed)

1997?

Purcell Print, Boyle. 96 pp.

ü

Memoir of a controversy respecting the name borne by the O’Conors of Ballintubber, the title of Don and the legal representatives of the family.

Roderick O’Conor Esq.

1857

Dublin

Memoir of Madam O’Conor Don.

William Gibson

25 Nov. 1817

???

Memoir of the O’Conors of Ballintubber, Co. Roscommon.

R. O’Conor

1859

Dublin

Memoirs of Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare, with historical account of the family O’Conor.

C. O’Conor

1796

Dublin

Memories of the life & writings of the late Charles O’Conor of Balanagare Esq. MRIA.

Rev. Charles O’Conor DD

1796

J. Mehain, No. 49 Essex St., Dublin.

Memoir of the family of Irwin of Rathmoyle.

Arthur J. & Christopher J. Irwin

ca. 1912

Rathmoyle, Co. Roscommon.

The following titles by this author:

A Book of Brazil,

Chalk & Cheese,

Dogs Dinner,

Going Against Gravity

Nobody's Neighbour.

Rainbow Rhymes,

Ten Tales,

Vile Verse, and

Yahoo Yarns,

various.

Moore News (Annual Newspaper / Magazine).

Moore Community Council

1974 to date

All issues from 1979 to 1985 (inclusive), and 1987, required.

Mount Talbot Annual?

Centenary Committee

1992

???

Official Guide to County Roscommon.

Roscommon County Council

n.d.

1980’s?

Farnham Publishers, Cavan. Printed in Boyle.

ü

1984

Ordnance Survey Name Books, Roscommon ?

Compiled by M. O’Flanagan.

1931

4 vols. Were these ever on public sale???

ca. 1962

Parochial Survey No. XVIII. Parish of Elphin, Co. of Roscommon.

William Digby

1816

A separate publication or part of bigger book ???

Parochial Survey of Kilmore

Rev. William Thompson

1816

Published by Mr. Mason! ??? Separate publication ?

Piseog & Telling Stories.

Boyle VTOS

1994

1843

Prov: for Summary Proceedings. Kenagh District, Co. of Roscommon. Report to the Commissioners on drainage and improvement of the lands in the above District.

T. J. Mulvaney

1847

Dublin

Rathmoyle Cemetery.

Laurence Mannion & Manus Tiernan.

1996

??

Recollections of Skeffington Gibbon, from 1796 to the present year 1829..etc.

Skeffington Gibbon

1829

Dublin

ü

Recorded Monuments Protected under section 12 of the National Monuments (Amdt) Act 1994 - Roscommon.

Archaeological Survey of Ireland

1997

Rededication of Church of St. Bridget, Cloonbonniffe, Souvenir Booklet.

1984

Boyle.

Reflections 1979.

Magazine Committee.

1979

ü

1920

Report & Rules of the Roscommon Union Agricultural Society.

Roscommon Union Agricultural Society.

Estd. 1841

At least 3 reports. All required

(3^rd. Report, Lennon, Main St., Roscommon (1845).

Report of the Castlerea Agricultural Society.

Castlerea Agricultural Society.

Early 1840’s to ca. 1845.

All required.

Report to the Commissioners appointed under the Drainage Act on the proposed drainage of the lands along the River Scramogue and it’s tributaries, near Strokestown, in the County Roscommon, Ireland.

J. McMahon CE

1844

8 vo. Dublin

1849

1867

n.d.

River Shannon Flood Problems. “Report of First Stage of Investigations”.

OPW & ESB. /

Stationary Office.

Government Publications.

6 June 1961

Was there a final report?

Rosc Chomáin (Magazine).

CBS Roscommon. Transition Year Students Committee.

1967 to date

Require No. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8,9 & 10 (1966 –75) 1977,78,79,81,82,83,84, 85,86,87,88,89,90,91,93, 94,95,98,99, 2001 & 02.

ü

Roscommon Boy’s Deprived of Secondary Education for 100 years.

Benny Lane

1995?

ü

Roscommon Castle.

Robert P. McDonnell

1913

Pamphlet

Roscommon Champion - Golden Jubilee Supplement.

Roscommon Champion

1977

Broadsheet, insert with newspaper.

Roscommon County Committee of Agriculture Annual Report.

Roscommon County Committee of Agriculture

?

Issued free to Roscommon farmers. Require all except 1932, 38 to 41, 50, 51, 55, 56, 60, 63, 65 to 71, 75, 77, & 78.

Roscommon County Council Annual Reports.

Roscommon County Council

Various

Require all except:

(A5) 1982,86,89,90 & 91.

(A4) 1993, 95, 96, 97, 2000, 01, 03 & 04.

Roscommon Directory (Commercial & Historical).

W. H. Cartor

1920

- ?

First printed 1920 (not needed), 1921 and later? dates required.

Roscommon GAA Yearbooks.

Roscommon GAA County Board

Various

1970 required & ??

Roscommon Guide.

Ros. Co. Co. / Ros Town Commissioners.

1970’s?

Printed by Kerryman, Tralee.

ü

2001

Roscommon Journal  1922 Yearbook.

Roscommon Journal

1922

Was this the only year???

Roscommon Rugby Annual Yearbook.

Roscommon Rugby Club.

(Creggs?)

?

All required.

Roscommon Vocational School (“Inspirations  1984 – 1994”).

Vocational School,

Roscommon

1994

Student Magazine.

ü

Roscommon Vocational School Magazine. (Inspirations)

Vocational School, Roscommon

1981 – 1983

Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 required. (Vol. 3 was May 83)

Roscommon Vocational School Newspaper (Newsview).

Roscommon Vocational School

1984 to ?

All issues required.

n.d.

Rules of Fairymount and Tibohine Co. Operative Agricultural & Dairy Society Ltd.

1898

Dublin

Scoil Chroist an Rí School Annual.

Scoil Chroise an Rí, Boyle

?

All issues except 1985, 86 & 87 required.

Scoil Mhuire Magazine (Horizons).

Transition Year Students

2003

Scoil Mhuire TY School Mag. 2002/03.

ü

Scoil Mhuire Magazine (Sources).

Transition Year Students

2001

Scoil Mhuire TY School Mag. 2000/01

ü

Short Narrative of the Home Colonies of Castle Sampson & Iskerhone, established for the Rt. Hon. Lord Clonbrock, upon his estate in the County of Roscommon, in Ireland.

Thomas Bermingham

1833

Dublin

Solemn Dedication of the Church of St. Anne, Scramogue.

1986

Souvenir Booklet

Solemn Dedication of the Church of The Sacred Heart, Kilglass.

1992

30 August 1992.

Solemn rededication of Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. (Aughrim).

Rev. Francis Beirne

1985

Souvenir Booklet.

Souvenir Handbook of the Centenary Re-Enactment of the First Meeting of Roscommon County Council 28 June 1999.

Jim Gibbons

1999

Souvenir Booklet!

(This is NOT “100 years of Local Government” book!)

ü

Souvenir of ceremony in St. Michaels Church, Drumlion. 22 July 1945.

1945

4 page pamphlet.

Souvenir of Granlahan Monastery & Primary Schools Reunion 1850 – 1996. Parish of Kiltullagh.

Reunion Committee.

1996

ü

Souvenir of Solemn Blessing and Opening of New Church, Rahara.

1967

Souvenir Booklet

ü

Souvenir Programme of Official Opening and Blessing of Oran Grounds & Club House.

Committee.

5^th. June 1983

Souvenir Programme.

ü

St. Patrick’s Church, Castlerea: Centenary 1896 – 1996.

Rev. Oliver McDonagh (ed)

1996

Boyle.

Stair na gCondae 1 – Ros Comáin.

Fr. O’Flanagan

1938

Oifig an tSolathair, Dublin

ü

Statistical Account of the Parish of Kilronin in Ireland & of the Neighbouring District.

Charles O’Conor

1773

1773 (1^st ed) 1798 (2^nd ed).

British Catalogue No. 18:976

Any edition required!

1994?

Summerhill College Annual.

Various

All issues required.

Taughmaconnell Mission Booklet.

1885

16 pages. Dublin. (Protestant Mission)

Termon N.S. Centenary 1890 – 1990.

Martin Lavin (ed)

1990

60 pp.

ü

The Ancient Monasteries of Boyle.

Right Rev. Monsignor Kelly

1897

Lecture delivered on Tuesday, December 8^th, 1896. Boyle Herald.

ü

The anonymous claim of Mr. Arthur O’Conor as “A member of the Belanagare Family” of descent from the O’Conor of Ballintubber, considered in relation to Public Records.

Roderick O’Conor

1859

Dublin

The Bonfire - Newsletter.

Ballykilcline Society USA

1999 -

2 issues per year (Spring & Fall). All issues required.

The Church of the Sacred Heart, Roscommon. Souvenir Booklet.

1903

Original. Printed for church opening in 1903.

NOT the later issue.

The Davy’s Family Records .. from 1693 to 1832 .. Printed from originals in the possession of the family.

S.F. O’Cidnain MB (?)

1931

Longford Printing & Publishing Co.

The Dominicans of Roscommon.

Luke Taheny

1990

Tallagh, Dublin 63 pp

1976

The Flock Book of Roscommon Long Wool Sheep.

Roscommon Sheep Breeders Association.

1896

- 1924

10 volumes. (Not consecutive). All required.

The Four Masters; The Annals of Boyle & other information of a local nature.

M. Mac D. Gunning

??

Pamphlet? This text is on page 12 of “Lough Ree” (see above). Could it be a mistake ?????

The Frenchs of Frenchpark.

Maurice French

(1999?)

Privately printed for family.

ü

The Golden Book – A Record of National Service in Co. Roscommon from 1939 to 1945.

?? Listed in Ros. Library Catalogue 1982 ???

The History of Roscommon 1566 -

Timothy Cronin

1977

Dept. of Education. Notes & film strip.

ü

The History of the Parish of Drumlion.

Drumlion National School Students.

1970’s

?

The House of O’Conor.

James P. McGarry

1971

1999?

The Kings, Earls of Kingston.

R.D. King-Harman

1957

Cambridge, UK

1994

The letters of Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare.

C.C. & R.E. Ward (eds)

1980

2 vols. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

The Life of St. Grellan, patron of the O’Kellys of the tribe of Hy Maine.

Rev. J. O’Hanlon

1851

Duffy, Dublin

The MacDermots of Moylurg & Coolavin.

Sir. D. Mac Dermot

1985

Dunlavin.   2 vols?

Not the single vol. Book!

The O’Conors of Connaught: An historical memoir.

C. O’ Conor Don

1891

Hodges & Figgis, Dublin

1891

1981

The Parish of Creagh.

1998?

The Redemptorists come to Esker.

Rev. John J. McGreevy

1992

Two page leaflet.

The Story of Mote – Family History of Lord Crofton.

Francis G. Crofton

1895

The Strokestown Famine Papers: The Mahon Family & Strokestown Estate 1845 – 1848.

Stephen Campbell

?

“soon to be published” in 1996. Was it ever produced ???

The Third Order of the Carmelites of Tisrara?

Tommy Moran ???

1997

Mount Talbot ??? Ever published?

The Tisrara Medieval Church, Carrowntemple, Four Roads. It’s Archaeology and History.

Jim Higgins M.A.

1995

Published by the Tisrara Heritage and Graveyard Restoration Committee.

ü

The White Lady. A Legend of Artagh.

T. W. B. (Thomas Wentworth Beaumont 1792 – 1848)

1837

Manning & Smithson, St. Paul's, London. (Artagh is now known as Tibohine).

Two different editions available.

Tibohine Community Centre – a Souvenir History.

Tibohine Community Centre Committee

1987

Souvenir Booklet

ü

Urban Archaeological Survey – Co. Roscommon.

J. Bradley & N. Dunne

1988

1996

ü

Walking through time. Sliabh Bán, Co. Roscommon. Linking the natural & cultural landscapes.

Strokestown Community Dev. Assoc. & Western Dev. Tourism (Grant Aided by Arigna Leader)

n.d.

Fold out map and text. Walking route on Sliabh Bán and local history notes. A2? Double sided, colour.

1997

Whitehall National School 1892 – 1992. 100 years.

Anniversary Committee.

1992

Centenary History.

ü

1897

1790

Full title: Συλλεγόμενα (Sullegomena) of the Antiquities of Killmackumpshaugh, in the County of Roscommon and Kingdom of Ireland, in which it is clearly proved that Ireland was originally peopled by Ægyptians. Dublin 1790. 51 pp (plus). Two engravings.

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