Culture

Ballads

• Paddy Berry,
  Wexford Ballads. Foillstheoiri Cois Slaine, 1982
   
• Paddy Berry,
  More Wexford Ballads. Wexford. 1987
   
• Joseph Ranson,
  Songs of the Wexford Coast. Enniscorthy. 1948
   
• Diarmaid O’Muirithe (ed),
  The Wexford Carols. Portlaoise. The Dolmen Press, 1982.
  ISBN: 0 85195 376 9

Opera Festival

• Barrie Dowdall (director),
  Ruby Backdrop, a short film capturing the uniqueness of Wexford, its people, glitz, fringe razzmatazz and more, framed in festival mood. Telwell Video Productions, 1991
   
• Ian Fox (ed.),
  100 Nights at the Opera. Dublin. Townhouse, 1991ISBN : 0 948524 32 4
   
• Kevin Lewis,
  Memories of Wexford Festival Opera, its artistes and repertoire. Wexford 1984
   
• Report of the Wexford Festival Development Ctte 1980
   
• Gus Smith,
  Ring Up the Curtain. Dublin. Celtic Publishers Ltd., 1976
   
• Wexford Festival Programme 1951

Dialects

• William Barnes (ed),
  A glossary with some pieces of verse of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, formerly collected by Jacob Poole of Growtown, Tagmon, County of Wexford. London. J. Russell Smith, 1867
   
• Kathleen A Browne,
  Ancient Dialect of the Forth and Bargy. Antiquaries of Ireland, 1939 (offprint)
   
• T.P. Dolan & Diarmaid O Muirthe,
  The Dialect of the Forth and Bargy County Wexford. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1996. ISBN : 1 85182 200 3

Education

• Eamonn Barrett (ed),
  Piercestown National School 150th. Anniversary Souvenir 1846-1996. Wexford, 1996
   
• Monica Crofton,
  Memories of the Faythe School. Wexford. undated
   
• Mark Codd,
  Rathgarogue - A history of its schools. Rathgarogue Parochial Ctte, 1988
   
• Patrick Donovan,
  The Christian Brothers in New Ross, First Century, 1849-1949: a history of Mount St. Joseph, monastery and schools interwoven with local history, compiled chiefly from manuscript sources, with commentaries on schools and schooling in Ross from Norman times, education systems in Ireland, the Christian Brothers system of teaching. New Ross, 1952
   
• "Annual" College of Good Counsel, New Ross, 1911
   
• Padraig McManus,
  The Road to School, 1887-1987. (Glenbrien N.S.), 1998
   
• Jim Jenkins,
  A tete-a-tete about the Tate School Wexford 1867-1949, its history and educational background. Wexford, undated
   
• Petrus, Wexford. St. Peter’s College

Folklore

• Patrick Kennedy, (a.k.a. Henry Whitney)
  Banks of the Boro, a Chronicle of the County of Wexford. Wexford. Duffry Press, 1989 (reprint)
   
• Patrick Kennedy,
  Evenings in the Duffrey, Dublin. McGlashan and Gill, 1869
   
• Patrick Kennedy,
  Legends of Mount Leinster. Wexford. Duffrey Press, 1989 (reprint)

Churches

• Matthew Berney (ed),
  The Centenary Record of Wexford’s Twin Churches. 1958
   
• John Casey,
  Castledockrell Church 1842-1992
   
• James B. Curtis,
  Church of the Annunciation, Wexford. 1974
   
• Enniscorthy 1846-1946,
  Souvenir of the Consecration and Centenary of St. Aidan’s Cathedral.
   
• Walter Forde,
  St Michael’s Church, Gorey, 1839-1989
   
• Fr. Paul, O. F. M.,
  Wexford Friary, a short account of the history and the traditions of the Franciscan Friary at Wexford. Wexford, 1949
   
• Athanasius Giblin,
  The History and Traditions of Wexford Friary. Wexford. Undated
   
• T. B. Gibson,
  Ferns Cathedral and the Restoration Work 1901. Dublin. Church of Ireland Printing and Publishing, 1901
   
• Aine O’Mahoney,
  St. Mary’s New Ross. Wexford. New Ross Historical Society, 1989
   
• John Pierce,
  Dunbrody Abbey Co. Wexford, monastery and monument. Wexford. Duchas Books, 1994. ISBN: 0 9524237 0 7
   
• Rev. N. Power et al,
  Centenary Star of the Sea 1896-1996. Duncannon, 1996 (souvenir booklet)
   
• Norman Ruddock and Naomi Kloss,
  Unending Worship. (St. Iberius Church, Wexford) Wexford, 1997
   
• M. J. Wall,
  Centenary 1881-1981 Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, the Riverchapel, Courtown Harbour, Riverchapel. Riverchapel Parish Council, 1981
   
• Kevin Whelan, (ed)
  Tintern Abbey County Wexford, Cistercians and Colcloughs, Eight Centuries of Occupation. Wexford. Friends of Tintern, undated

Religious Orders

• Thomas C. Butler, O.S.A.,
  Near Restful Waters - the Augustinians in Wexford. Dublin. Good Counsel Press, undated
   
• Clericus Amicus,
  A powerhouse of prayer, how perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament was begun and continued in Catholic Wexford. Dublin. M. H. Gill & Son, 1939
   
• Thomas S. Flynn,
  The Dominicans of Rosbercon (1267 - c.1800). 1981
   
• Fergal Grannell,
  The Franciscans in Wexford. Undated
   
• J. W. O’Byrne,
  History of the Wexford Men’s Confraternity of the Holy Family. Wexford. 1910

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