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⁵⁸ The series under the general editorship of William Nolan, of which Tipperary, Wexford (edited with K. Whelan); Kilkenny (again edited with K. Whelan); Waterford (with T. P. Power) and Cork (edited by P. O'Flanagan and C. G. Buttimer) have so far been published. Galway, Wicklow and Donegal are well advanced, and Down and Offaly are known to be in gestation. Other ventures include: Gillespie, R. G. and Moran, G. (eds.), ‘A various country’: essays in Mayo history 1500–1900 (Westport, 1987)Google Scholar; Gillespie, and Moran, , Longford; Gillespie, and O'Sullivan, H. (eds.), The borderlands: essays on the Ulster–Leinster border (Belfast, 1989)Google Scholar. The high quality of some, more local studies is demonstrated by Harrison, R. S., Cork city Quakers 1655–1939 (no place, 1991)Google Scholar, and the contributions to Séanchas Chairbre, III (1993)Google Scholar.

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