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O'Ruairc Family Resources
This page is an attempt to locate and list various historical and genealogical resources that may be available to the researcher of the O'Ruairc, O'Rourke, O'Rorke, Rourke, Ruark, Roark, Rook, etc. family lines. Also included at this site are transcriptions of some of the more important Irish genealogical sources.
If you are aware of any resource materials which may be useful, please share these and I'll get them listed for the good of the Clan. If you can provide a short description of any of the books listed, please contact me. Thank you for your support of the O'Ruairc Clan.
History Books on the family of O'Ruairc
TITLE: O Ruairc of Breifne
DESCRIPTION: History and Folklore of early O'Rourkes, 224 pages
AUTHOR: Betty Mac Dermot
PUBLISHED: Drumlin Publications
Nure, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, 1990
AVAILABLE: Interlibrary loan. also... National Library of Ireland Ir 9292 o 45
ORDER: Kenny's Bookshop
http://rdb.iol.ie/kenny-bin/BookSearch.pl
(search for Ruairc, or Breifne)
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Amazon Books (UK)
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(search for Breifne)
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Waterstone's Bookstore,
7 Dawson St.
County Dublin, 2 Ireland
Tel.: 00-353-1-6791415
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TITLE: An Irish Odyssey: History of the Family of O'Rourke
DESCRIPTION: History of the O'Rourkes from their ancient origins through their migration to the New World.
AUTHOR: Steven Vincent O'Rourke
PUBLISHED: 1999, Higginsons Book Co., paperback
148 Washington St.
Salem MA 01970, USA
ORDER: Higginsons Book Co. http://www.Higginsonbooks.com/
Tel.: 978/745-7170
Fax: 978/745-8025
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TITLE: O'Rourke Strongholds of West Breifne
DESCRIPTION: Photographs, historic notes and maps, 74 pages
AUTHOR: Dunta ui Ruairc
PUBLISHED: printed by The Sligo Champion - 1993
AVAILABLE: National Library of Ireland Ir 941 p 137 (6)
also... search 'Used Books'
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TITLE: Origins of the O'Rourkes with a history of the sept
DESCRIPTION: 58 pages, with 3 photos and a surname map of Ireland
AUTHOR: Anthony Mathews
PUBLISHED: Diamond Press, Dublin 1970, small paperback
AVAILABLE: Interlibrary loan, or search 'Used Books'
also... National Library of Ireland 9292 o 31 (1)
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TITLE: Documents and Materials for the history of the O'Rourke family.
DESCRIPTION: two Patents of Nobility, letters and documents of Count Owen O'Rourke who
died in Vienna in 1743; letters from members of Count Owen's family in Ireland, etc.
AUTHOR: Bishop Count Eduard Fraf O'Rourke, Danzig
PUBLISHED: 1925
AVAILABLE: the 'Danzig letters' are on microfilm at the Nat'l Library in Dublin
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TITLE: A Tract on the O Rourkes
DESCRIPTION: Information about 15th - 17th century O Rourkes, O Rourke pedigrees, etc.
AUTHOR: Possibly Father Patrick O Curneen, originally written in 1714
PUBLISHED: Royal Irish Academy MS. C.IV.I.
a portion translated by Prof. James Carney and published in 1950 (Celtica, Vol. 1)
AVAILABLE: at the Royal Irish Academy
portions of this text are also translated in Betty Mac Dermot's book: O Ruairc of Breifne
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TITLE: Captain Thady Roirk his book
DESCRIPTION: A collection of genealogies and poems of O Rourke and other families, written in 17th century.
AUTHOR: Tadhg (Thady) O Rourke, from material borrowed from O Duigenan records.
PUBLISHED: Royal Irish Academy, MS C.iv.1. Sec.d.
AVAILABLE: at the Royal Irish Academy, copies in the National Library
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TITLE: The Uí Briúin Bréifni Genealogies
PUBLISHED: The journal of the Royal Society of antiquaries of Ireland.
Vol. LXIV, part II. 31 December 1934.
Series 7, 4:90-137, 213-56.
aka RSAI 64 (1934) 90-137, 213-56.
AUTHOR: Michael Duignan
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TITLE: The Compossicion Booke of Conought.
DESCRIPTION: Book covers agreement in 1585 between the Connacht Chieftains & Royal Commission
under Sir Richard Bingham for resettlement of the county on feudal lines
EDITOR: Alexander Martin Freeman
PUBLISHED: DUBLIN, Irish Manuscript Commission. 1936. 179 pages
AVAILABLE: Used Book search; Interlibrary Loan
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TITLE: Irish Kings and High Kings.
DESCRIPTION: Has important history on the O'Rourkes and their tribal origins. Contains an Ua Ruairc
pedigree chart.
AUTHOR: Francis J. Byrne
PUBLISHED: London, B.T. Batsford LTD, 1973; Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2nd edition, 2001
AVAILABLE: Used Book search; Interlibrary Loan
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TITLE: `On the elegy of Erard MacCoise, chief chronicler of the Gaels over the tomb of Fergal
O'Ruairc, chief of Brefny at Clonmacnoise'
PUBLISHED: Journal - Kilkenny Archaeol Soc ns 1 (1857) 341-56
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TITLE: Notes on the history of the kingdom of Bréifni
PUBLISHED: Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiq. of Ireland, 1935,
65 (1935) 113-40.
AUTHOR: Michael Duignan
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TITLE: The Arms of the O'Rourkes: a metal casting from County Leitrim seventeenth-century foundries
PUBLISHED: Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiq. of Ireland, Vol. XXXVI (1906),
Part II, 30 June 1906, pp 123-42.
AUTHOR: Joseph Meehan
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TITLE: 'Brian of the Ramparts: O'Rourke 1566 91'
PUBLISHED: Breifne. Journal of Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne.
volume II (1962); pp 50-79
AUTHOR: Domhnall Mac An Ghallóglaigh (Daniel Gallogly)
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TITLE: Bréifne and its chieftains 1300-1560 (part II)
PUBLISHED: Breifne. Journal of Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne.
volume VIII, number 1 (1989-90); pp 62-79
AUTHOR: Domhnall Mac An Ghallóglaigh
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TITLE: Early colonisation of Bhreifne; The Prehistory of the Breifne Region
PUBLISHED: Breifne. Journal of Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne.
volume I, number 1; 8vo. 84 pages
AUTHOR: various
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TITLE: 'Extradition and treason-trial of a Gaelic lord: the case of Brian O'Rourke'
PUBLISHED: The Irish Jurist, 22, 1987, 285-301
AUTHOR: Hiram Morgan
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TITLE: The Diocese of Kilmore: its History and Antiquities
PUBLISHED: Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1937
AUTHOR: Philip O'Connell
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TITLE: History of Leitrim
PUBLISHED: Dublin, 1937
AUTHOR: T. O'Flynn
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TITLE: A New History of Ireland
DESCRIPTION: Contains a list of O Ruairc, Kings of Breifne, c.1128-1605
PUBLISHED: Vol IX, 1984
AUTHOR: ed. Byrne, Martin, Moody
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TITLE: Manutiana: the poems of Manus O'Rourke (c.1658-1743)
PUBLISHED: Celtica 1 (1946-50) 1-63
AUTHOR: Canice Mooney
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TITLE: Moylough, a people's heritage
DESCRIPTION:
AUTHOR: Carol Regan
PUBLISHED: Moylough Community Council Moylough 1993
AVAILABLE: National Library of Ireland Ir 94124 p 5(4)
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TITLE: O’Ruarc, An Irish Tale.
PUBLISHED: Dublin: Richard Milliken and Son, 104, Grafton-Street, 1832. ii, 126p. 8vo.
DESCRIPTION: Preface, pp. [i]–ii, signed ‘The Author, Trinity College, June 1832’.
This is addressed to Lady Morgan (unknown to the author), and expresses admiration
of Morgan’s talent, especially her ‘recording of Irish grievances and observations on
events resulting from absentee landlords’. The work originated from ‘an idea inspired
by her "Absenteeism" in which she notes the "wild legend" surrounding the death of
O’Ruarc, Prince of Breffini’. The author’s motives for writing are explained: ‘to attract
attention, particularly of young people towards the history of their own country’,
patriotic curiosity, and the ‘desolating effects of absenteeism on the country’.
AUTHOR: Anonymous
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TITLE: The Family O'Rourke
DESCRIPTION: Follow the dramatic journey of the sisters O'Rourke,
Rossa & Kitty, children forced to make their way in
the world when the famine destroys their family. With
nothing but their beauty & determination to keep them
going, they manage to rise to heights.
AUTHOR: Helene Thornton
PUBLISHED: 1980 Fawcett Gold Medal PB
AVAILABLE: Search the out-of-print web links below (e.g. Adv Book Ex)
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TITLE: The Children of Master O'Rourke
DESCRIPTION: This family so appealed to the journalist Smith, that he
wrote of the schoolmaster of Ballycarrick and his fifteen
children In the telling, the story of Ireland, from the
1916 Rising to its development as a Nation, unfolds in the
background.
AUTHOR: J.C. Smith
PUBLISHED: London 1978
AVAILABLE: Interlibrary loan
also... National Library of Ireland Ir 9292 o 37
also.. search the out-of-print web links below
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