Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland by Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock (GT486)

Published 1970: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated Map - Includes the Original Large Fold-Out Map of Monastic Ireland in the Rear Pocket.

Original black cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 479 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. A very scarce original first edition. (GT486)

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Includes original large fold-out map of Monastic Ireland in rear pocket.

Map of Monastic Ireland' compiled by Hadcock and Gwynn, and published by the Ordnance Survey Office, Dublin, which when used with the carefully prepared indices, makes the identification and location of nearly every religious house a simple matter for the reader.

Aubrey Gwynn, SJ (1892-1983), historian, was a native of Dublin, who attended Clongowes in 1903-08. The son of Stephen Gwynn, nationalist MP and writer, he was brought up a Catholic by his convert mother. He graduated from UCD in 1912 with first-class honours in classics and became a Jesuit novice the same year. After study at Louvain and in the Netherlands, and a period teaching at Clongowes, he was ordained in 1924. In 1927 he began his academic career as a history lecturer in UCD and was the college’s first professor of medieval history in 1949-63, also serving as dean of the arts faculty. In 1958-61 he was president of the Royal Irish Academy. He was an important scholar who wrote or edited contributions on ancient, medieval and modern history. He published over a hundred journal articles, many reviews and several books, of which the best known and most widely consulted is the classic survey (in collaboration with Neville Hadcock) Medieval religious houses: Ireland (1970). A frail and modest man, he was the recipient of many international awards, but said that the letters SJ were the only qualifications he required. He was a keen supporter of St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society, editing for more than twenty years their quarterly magazine St Joseph’s Sheaf. His brother, Denis Gwynn (1893-1971), attended Clongowes in 1903-08. A journalist and historian, Denis Gwynn was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and held a research chair in modern Irish history at UCC, where he was also general editor for Cork University Press. {Google Books}