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Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of IrelandReview by: D. B. QuinnIrish Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 67 (Mar., 1971), pp. 419-421Published by: Irish Historical Studies Publications LtdStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30005774 .

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progressive thinking about the Irish question in the interlude between the Easter rising and the 1919 declaration, and in so doing acquired the status of historical source-material. Its usefulness is very greatly enhanced by Dr McDowell's skilful use of unpublished papers and correspondence. One could perhaps wish that his work had been less consistently chronological, and I for one would willingly have sacrificed some of the detail about the convention procedures, and passing allusions to its lunch-time adjournments and evening parties-though the last evidently had their importance-for more critical assessment of the weight to be attached to, or the motives determining, the views expressed. Most of all would I have welcomed this in respect of Lloyd George, whose papers Dr McDowell has used. Did Lloyd George regard the convention as a failure? Or did he consider it a most useful and effective way of demon- strating, inter alia to the Americans, that something was being done on the Irish question, while preserving the comforting assurance that nothing could conceivably come of it, and that failure must inevitably be attributed to the inability of Irishmen to agree among themselves? Or to put it in more personal terms, was he simply using Redmond and Plunkett for his tactical purposes?

The book has a few, mostly trifling, proof-reading errors, e.g. Agar- Robertes for Robartes, p. 29; Wimbourne, p. 65; Mounteagle, p. 83; should not Laurences be Lawrences in the quotation on p. 93?; prime for prince, p. 160, Macphearson, p. 199. More important is the sugges- tion (p. 36) that South Africa had become a dominion through accept- ance (instead of rejection) of the federal principle. Finally, it should be added-since the reader is unlikely to anticipate this-the account of the convention is preceded by a valuable summary of the Irish question in the home rule era, once again making use of sources that have compar- atively recently been made available.

NICHOLAS MANSERGH

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND, VOIs XCVi- xcvix (1966-9).

Vols xcvi-xcvii (1966-7) A BIBLIOGRAPHY of the wrtings of H. G. Leask illustrates the range of studies which he commanded and the pioneer work he initiated (xcvi, 1-6). Anne O'Sullivan (xcvi, 179-80) publishes a colophon to Muiredach preserved by Ussher from the now mutilated psalter (B.M., Cott. MS, Vit. F XI), and indicates why this may be Muiredach of Monasterboice and the pvalter a product of his monastery. G. H. Hand (xcvii, 97-I 1I) illustrates from a wardship and marriage case, 1277-96, and the issue of regalian rights, I325-82 in which Christ Church, Dublin, was involved, the evolution in the Irish and English courts of common law precedents for Ireland. Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven (xcvii, 47-59) surveys a confused decade, I350-60, when Sir Thomas Rokeby and his successors, with small numbers of troops from England, were able only with intermittent success, to hold up the decline of the English interest in Ireland. D. W. Dykes

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(xcvi, I 1-2o) modifies John Barry's view (xcii, 78-91 above) of the appearance of the three crowns badge on Irish coins of the fifteenth century and discusses triangle and harp emblems from John to Henry VIII. Helene M. Roe (xcvi, io5-9) makes an eloquent plea for the systematic study of late medieval ('Irish Gothic') buildings and art, which E. C. Rae (xcvi, 59-91) admirably justifies by his detailed analysis of the cloister at Jerpont and its many religious and secular carvings (he dates them between 145o and 1525).

A. Clarke and D. Fenlon (xcvii, 85-90) continue from xciii, 161-7, xciv, 159-75, their debate on the parliament of 1634 and approach agree- ment. A. E. J. Went's notes (xcvi, 121-31) on the Lough Swilly fisheries contain some interesting matter on the plantation period and later times. Michael Quane (xcvi, 157-77) traces the vicissitudes of Bishop Hodson's Grammar School at Elphin from about 170o to the present, while C. B. Warren surveys (cvii, I19-27) the church plate of Waterford diocese, notably the collections presented by Bishop Thomas Milles in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. M. Mac an Bhaird (xcvii, 77-8) has a note on calico-printing in Co. Meath in the eighteenth century. A. K. Longfield (Mrs H. G. Leask) discusses (xcvi, 133-40) the exotic embossed pictures produced in Dublin by Samuel Dixon and his imitators. 1748- 56, while Catriona MacLeod illustrates seven late eighteenth century Dublin-made finger bowls. F. H. A. Aalen (xcvi, 47-58) argues closely that the gable-hearth house in western Ireland is a recent stage of devel- opment and that the hip-ended central-hearth house is basic, being descended from the clochan : he also discusses the implications of this theory for the east.

Vol. xcviii (1968) Michael Dolley discusses and publishes Hiberno-Norse coins found in

Tingstiide in 1966 and Luwwelunda (Gotland) in 1967 (pp 57-62, 197-9): the i8 coins range in date from c. 100oo5 to c. Iogo. Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, in a valuable paper (pp 37-46), discusses the Norman use of an army of tenants by knight-service (etc.) in Ireland and the levy of scutage (by proclamation I2I2-1480, and later), sometimes as an alternative to, later almost invariably as a tax additional to, the rising out. The latter continued until the beginning of the seventeenth century, but scutage appears to have faded away (beyond the limits of this paper) in the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. D. M. Waterman (pp 67-73) describes the rectangular thirteenth century keeps at Grenan (Co. Kilkenny) and Glanworth (Co. Cork), not hitherto discussed in detail. Michael Quane traces (pp 171-9o) the history of Wicklow Free School from 1613 to I858, using extracts from the Wicklow corporation minute-book between I682 and 1739. Oliver Snoddy prints (pp 79-87) the charter of the Dublin Guild of St Luke, 1670, on loan to the National Library. The guild took in cutlers, painter-stainers and stationers. N. H. Newhouse uses the Greer Papers (P.R.O.N.I.) to elucidate the founding of the Friends' School, Lisburn, i763-94. Aiken McClelland attempts (pp 191-9) to compile an outline of the early history of the

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Imperial Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth. Up to 1846 its origins are most obscure, arising from a Scottish 'Order' of Knights of Malta of the eighteenth century and various offshoots of the Orange Order which were mostly at variance with the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland. The Black chapters got their chance when the Grand Lodge was suppressed in 1836 and stole some of the Orange thunder, consti- tuting the Grand Black Chapter in 1846, which made its peace after some friction, 1846-62, with the Orange Order, with which close parallel development has since taken place.

Vol. xcix (1969) An interesting attempt (pp 39-54) by a team including H. J. Case,

G. F. Mitchell and V. B. Proudfoot is made to establish the sequential land use of Goodland townland, Co. Antrim, from prehistoric to modern times. J. Raftery discusses (pp 133-6) a hoard, from the wall of demol- ished rath, of four silver bracelets of the Viking period (dated c. 9oo- early i ith century in Britain) from Roosky, Co. Donegal. Among acquisitions of the National Museum for 1966 (p. o09) are a chalice and paten of silver from Mellifont Abbey (see R.I.A. Proc., Lxviii, C (1969), no. 2). Helen M. Roe (pp i-I9) traces and illustrates all surviving Irish cadaver (transi) effigial monuments. The date limits are mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century, the earlier date linked with their appearance elsewhere in Europe in the wake of the Black Death. Three Irish knife- daggers, with (or formerly with) decorated handles, are discussed by E. Rynne (pp 137-43). They 'may well belong to the type which was usually termed skean by the English' during the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. B. Raftery draws attention (pp 161-4) to an Ogham inscription, two lines of Irish, on an 1802 gravestone at Ahenny, Co. Tipperary, as a late survival of this art. Can Ogham have been used occasionally in later times when it would have been impolitic to use Irish 'in clear'? M. Herity (pp 21-37), on Irish antiquarian finds and collections of the early nineteenth century, throws some light on collecting habits and tastes of the period. A. E. J. Went (pp 55-61) discusses the restocking of the Ballisodare salmon fishery under an 1837 act of parliament, and also the longer history of the River Sligo fishery. R. B. Aldrige (pp 81-7) illustrates the types of burial grounds used for unbaptised infants and other communal burial grounds in Co. Mayo.

D. B. QUINN

ULSTER JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, 3rd series, vols xxix-xxxii (I966-9). Vol. xxix (1966)

OBITUARIES appear of George Barnett (xxix, 1-5) and Lady Dorothy Lowry-Corry (xxx, 1-2). D. M. Waterman reports (xxx, 53-82) pre- liminary excavations on two churches at Derry, near Portaferry (8th-I 2th centuries), probably originally part of a small monastery or communal hermitage; he gives (xxx, 83-6) some additional information, acquired

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