Ireland - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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The history of Ireland , from the earliest account of time, to the invasion of the English under King Henry II, being a Series of the principal Transactions in that Kingdom, for upwards of 3000 Years. Interspers'd with many curious particulars, not to be met with in any one History of Ireland yet published.
Comerford, T.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- E-books
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A tour in Ireland with general observations on the present state of that kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779. By Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. Honorary Member of the Societies of Dublin, York and Manchester; the Imperial Society of Agriculture at Petersburgh; the Oeconomical Society of Berne; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture, at Manheim, and the Physical Society at Zurich. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes.
Arthur YoungDate: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- E-books
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Hibernia curiosa A letter from a gentleman in Dublin, to his friend at Dover in Kent. Giving a general view of the manners, customs, dispositions, &c. of the inhabitants of Ireland. With occasional Observations on the State of Trade and Agriculture in that Kingdom. And including an Account of some of its most remarkable Natural Curiosities, such as Salmon-Leaps, Water-Falls, Cascades, Glynns, Lakes, &c. With a more particular Description of the Giant's Causeway in the North; and the celebrated Lake of Kilarny in the South of Ireland; taken from an attentive Survey and Examination of the Originals. Collected in a Tour Through the Kingdom in the Year 1764: And ornamented with Plans of the principal Originals, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot.
Bush, John, of Tunbridge Wells.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- E-books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, d. 1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- E-books
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Apologie du Capitaine Thurot , extraite de diff�erens journaux de ses navigations sur les c�otes D'Irlande & d'�Ecosse, pendant les ann�ees 1757 & 1759. Contre l'auteur anonyme d'un journal, au sujet de ce brave marin.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]