General Introductions to History of the County

• Bernard Browne,Living by the Pen: a biographical dictionary of County Wexford, Wexford.  Bernard Browne, 1997. Brief biographies of Wexford writers and details of their publications. ISBN: 0 9525771 27
   
• Elizabeth Brown & Tom Wickham (ed),
  The County Wexford Extracts from Samuel Lewis, Topographical dictionary of Ireland, originally published in 1837, and arranged alphabetically by civil parish. Lewis’s Wexford, Enniscorthy.  1983
   
• Billy Colfer, The County of Wexford.  Wexford.  Foillsitheoiri Cois Slaine, 1981. A brief, informative account of the county’s history.
   
• H. Grattan Flood, History of the Diocese of Ferns.  Waterford.  Downey & Co, 1916. A parish by parish account of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ferns.
   
• Nicholas Furlong & John Hayes, County Wexford in the Rare Oul’ Times, Wexford. Old Distillery Press,
  Vol 1 (1985); Vol 2 (1987) ISBN: 0 9512812 0 8;
  Vol 3 (1996) ISBN: 0 9512812 2 4
  These are important introductions to the photographic record of the county.
   
• George Griffith, Chronicles of County Wexford, Enniscorthy, 1877.  A record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences and crimes, also biographies of eminent persons brought down to the year, 1877.
   
• Philip H Hore, History of the Town and County of Wexford. Elliot Stock,
  Vol 1 (1900); Vol 2 (1901); Vol 3 (1901); Vol 4 (1904); Vol 5 (1906); Vol 6 (1911). This standard ‘county history’ contains little nineteenth century information.
   
• J. B.Leslie, Ferns Clergy and Parishes. Dublin. Church of Ireland Printing, 1936. A parish-by-parish history of the Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns.
   
• Mary Tubridy & Ted Culleton (eds), County Wexford Guides Series:
  No. 1 Introducing County Wexford
  No 2 Traces of County Wexford’s Past
  No.3 Nature and landscape in County Wexford
  No 4 Culture, farming and villages of Wexford. Wexford
  Wexford Organisation for Rural Development, (WORD) 1994.
   
• Kevin Whelan, & William Nolan (ed), Wexford: History and Society.  Dublin. Geography Publications,1987, ISBN: 0 906602 0 68. A collection of essays by national and local historians on aspects of the county’s history. 

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