Kenneth Nicholls

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Kenneth Nicholas, also known as Kenneth W. Nicholls, Irish academic and historian.

Formerly Profesor of History at University College Cork, Nicholls is the author of the ground-breaking Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, first published in 1972, reprinted 2003. His areas of professional interests include:

  • Late medieval and early modern Ireland, including topics such as
    • genealogy, population studies, place-names, marriage, law, institutions
  • Scottish history, particularly legal and institutional)
  • extinction of animals within historical times.
  • agrarian history

He retired in 2004.


Contents

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  • Tuath Bailenangeadh (Twoghballyneges etc) in "Dinnseanchas", 2/3, 1967, p.89.
  • Tobar Finnmhuighe - Slan Padraig, Dinnseanchas, 2/4, 1967, p.97-98.
  • Some placenames from The Red Book of the Earls of Kildare, "Dinnseanchas, 3/2, (1968), p.25-37.
  • The descendants of Oliver FitzGerald of Belagh, in The Irish Genealogist, 4/1 (1968), p.2-9.
  • The Lisgoole agreement of 1580, in Clougher Record 7/1 (1969), p.27-33.
  • Some documents on Irish law and custom in the sixteenth century, in Analaecta Hibernica, #26, (1970), pp.27-33.
  • The Kavanaghs, 1400-1700 (I), in The Irish Genealogist, 5/4, (1977), pp.435-47
  • The Kavanaghs, 1400-1700 (II), in
  • The Kavanaghs, 1400-1700 (III), in The Irish Genealogist, 5/6, (1979), pp.130-4.
  • Kinelmeaky and the Munster Plantation, in O'Mahony Journal, 10 (1980), p.10-14.
  • Notes on the genealogy of Clann Eoin Mhoir, in West Highland Notes and Queries, 1991, p.11-24.
  • Richard Tyrell, Solider Extraordinary, in The Battle of Kinsale, ed. Hiram Morgan, pp.160-78, Dublin, 2004.


[edit] Books

  • Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill History of Ireland 4, Dublin, 1972; revised and reprinted by Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2003.
  • The O'Doyne (Ó Duinn) Manuscript, Irish Historical Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1985.


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