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FRIENDS HISTORICAL LIBRARY, DUBLINPublications of the Historical Committee of Ireland Yearly Meeting and other books and pamphletsavailable from The Friends Historical Library, Stocking Lane, Dublin 16 D16 V3F8 . Emaillibrary@quakers.ieThe library is open every Thursday morning when people may browse publications (and buy at list price).When ordering books by post or email, add 5 for those priced up to 10 and 10 for all others. Paymentdetails are given at the end of this catalogue.Many of the books have either been published by the Historical Committee, or been produced with heavyinvolvement from that committee or resources from the library itself. All profits arising from sales are usedto support the work of the library.Butler, David M. 2004. The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland. Thehistory and features of about 150 Meeting Houses and 100 burialgrounds used by Quakers in Ireland since they settled their first meetingsin 1654. 254 pp, with extensive plans and sketches. Dublin: HistoricalCommittee. ISBN 0 9519870 6 2, 256, pp. 25Cameron, Janet with Simon Lamb, Aidan McCartney and DavidMorton 2002. The Friendly Guide to Quakerism. An illustratedoutline of the history, beliefs and practices of Quakers and the worldwide family of Friends. Dublin: Ireland Yearly Meeting YouthCommittee. 32 pp in colour. 5.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 1

Central Relief Committee 1852. Transactions of the Central ReliefCommittee of the Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland in 1846and 1847. The full story of the Committee’s work during the famine yearsand afterwards, one of the most comprehensive accounts of the GreatFamine. New edition by Joan C. Johnson, 1995, with index. 530 pp.Dublin: Eamon de Burca. ISBN 0 946130 15 9. 30.Chapman, Arthur G. 1997. History of the Religious Society of Friends inLurgan. Begins with the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland which took placein Lurgan in 1654. Tells of the contribution Friends have made to thedistrict over three and a half centuries. Lurgan: Friends Meeting. ISBN09530622 0 1, 73 pp, illustrated 5Chapman, Arthur G. 2005. 100 Years and More – History of Friends inPortadown. Although the Meeting House in Portadown is only 100 yearsold, Friends have been active in the area for three and a half centuries.This is their story. ISBN 0 9530622 1 X, 71 pp, illustrated. Lurgan:Friends Meeting. 5Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 2

Annals of Ballitore. A compilation of Annals of Ballitore by MaryLeadbeater (1758-1826) and Ballitore and its Inhabitants Seventy Years Agoby Betsy Shackleton (1783-1843). ISBN 978-0-9561244-0-1 (978-09561244-0-8 hardback), 320 pp. Kildare: County Library. 20 (hardback 30).Douglas, J. Glynn 1998. Friends and 1798, Quaker witness to nonviolence in 18th Century Ireland. Extracts from contemporary records andpersonal recollections of the 1798 uprising by members of the Society ofFriends. 95 pp, illustrated. Dublin: Historical Committee. ISBN 09519870 3 8, 95 pp. 10.Douglas, J. Glynn; Rob Goodbody, Alice Mauger and John Davey 2012.Bloomfield: a history 1812-2012. A history of the Dublin Quaker mentalhospital. ISBN 978 1 901658 84 2, 288 pp. Dublin: 30.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 3

Douglas, J. Glynn (ed.) 2016. The 1916 Rising Easter Week and its aftermathby three Dublin Quakers. Dublin: Historical Committee. Occasional Papersin Irish Quaker History No. 5. ISSN 0791 0791 7686, 28 pp. 5.Douglas, John M. 2004. The Beginnings of Quakerism in 17th CenturyIreland. Address given at the Tercentenary Conference in 1954. It examinesthe background of the first fifty years of Quakers in Ireland. Dublin:Historical Committee. Occasional Papers in Irish Quaker History No 2.ISSN 0791 0791 768, 20 pp. 5.Edwards, Kenneth 2017. As I see it. Stories of personal experience whichled the author to greater understanding. Cork: Lettertec. 63 pp. 10.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 4

Goodbody, Michael 2011. The Goodbodys, The Story of an IrishQuaker Family 1630-1950 and the family’s involvement in theindustrialisation of Ireland. Dublin: Ashfield Press. ISBN 978-1901658-82-8, 532 pp. 20.Goodbody, Rob 1995. Quaker relief work in Ireland’s GreatHunger. Summarizes the work done by the Central ReliefCommittee and explains the Quaker Tapestry panel depicting thepotato famine of 1846-49. 32 pp, illustrated. Kendal: QuakerTapestry Booklets. ISBN 0 9511581 7 1, 32 pp. 5.Goodbody, Rob 1995. A Suitable Channel. The story of the QuakerCentral Relief Committee involvement in famine relief. Includes theextra material that would not fit inside the author’s Quaker Tapestrybooklet. Dublin: Pale Publishing. ISBN 0 9522663 2 6, 99 pp. 10.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 5

Groeger, Kieran 2019. The much-maligned Mary Pike. Historical novel onthe abduction and subsequent life of an 18th century Quaker heiress, givinga wealth of background to social conditions in 18th and early 19th centuryIreland. Dublin: The Manuscript Publisher. ISBN 978-1-911442-20-2, 193pp. 10.Grubb, Clodagh 2015. Quaker Girl Anne Grubb: Plain Living and FancySewing Mountmellick School, Ireland, 1815. Dublin: Friends HistoricalLibrary. 8 pp . 5Grubb, Clodagh 2020. Samplers, Sewing and Simplicity in QuakerIreland. The definitive study of samplers and other needlework in theDublin Friends Library and other collections, with 128 illustrations,mostly in colour. Dublin: Friends Historical Library. ISBN 978-19161092-1-6, 178 pp 20 paperback (hardback 30).Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 6

Grubb, Isabel 2018. Irish Quakers: Social conditions in Ireland in theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as illustrated by early Quakerrecords. First printing of the author’s MA thesis. 142 pp. Cork:Risteárd Mac Annraoi. 10.Harrison, Richard S 2008. A Biographical Dictionary of IrishQuakers, 2nd Edition. The lives of 300 Irish Friends from the 350years of Quakers in Ireland. Biographical observations and anecdotescollected over a thirty-year period. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN94—1-84682-100-4, 123 pp. 30.Harrison, Richard S. 2011. Dr John Rutty of Dublin (1698-1775).Biography of the naturalist, medical man, philosopher and Quakerhistorian. Dublin: Original Writing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-908024-17-6,271 pp. 20.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 7

Harrison, Richard S. 2009. The Richardsons of Bessbrook. An accountof the Ulster linen industry 1845-1921 through three generations of theRichardson family outlining the development of Bessbrook village,involvement in temperance and the life of a Liberal MP. Dublin:Original Writing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906018-83-2, 235 pp 235illustrated. 20.Harrison, Richard S. 2006. Merchants, Mystics & Philanthropists, 350years of Cork Quakers and their historic connection with Cork City andsurroundings. Cork: Monthly Meeting. 235 pp, illustrated. 20.Harrison, Richard S. 2015. Time and Eternity: The Quakers of Corkand Youghal. Dublin: Historical Committee. Occasional Papers inIrish Quaker History No. 4. ISSN 0791 0791 768 16 pp. 10.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 8

Harrison, Richard S, 2018. Dublin Quakers (1650-1900). A historyof Dublin Quakers, their organisation, beliefs and contribution,economic and philanthropic, to the wider public. Cork: Risteárd MacAnnrai. 164 pp. 20.Hussey, John, 2017 (reprint 2020). The Quakers of Baltyboys, Co.Wicklow, Ireland An account of the community established in westWicklow in the 17th century, which developed a weaving industry.Dublin: Historical Committee ISBN 978-1-911345-56-5, 53 pp. 15.Jackson, Bill (ed.) 2011. Them Wild Woods – The transatlantic lettersof an Irish Quaker family 1818-1877. Letters of Greeves, O’Brien &Sinton families. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. 400 pp. 30.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 9

Jacob, Philip R 2011. A Fortunate Fellow. The memoirs of an 80 yearold life-long Irish Friend. Dublin: Jacob Books. ISBN 978-0-956-1167-10, 280 pp. 15.Jacob, Philip R. 2008 A Jacob Family, Tramore in the 1900s. Historyof the Jacob family from their arrival in Ireland up to 1950. Dublin:Jacob Books. ISBN 09561167-0-3, 239 pp 15.Johnson, Joan C 2000 James & Mary Ellis, Quaker famine relief inLetterfrack. An account of the Ellis response to the appallingdestitution found in Co. Galway when, at the age of 56, James boughtland and became a resident landlord in 1849. Historical Committee.ISBN 978 0 9519870 4 9, 81 pp, illustrated. 10.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 10

Johnson, Joan C 2019 Sophia Sturge and the Connemara BasketIndustry in Letterfrack 1888-1905. The development, by anEnglish Quaker, of an industry which used locally grown rawmaterials to produce craftwork of the highest quality. Dublin:Historical Committee ISBN 978-1-9161092-0-9, 112 pp.illustrated. 20.Lamb, Charles B. (ed.) 2006 Sean Harrington – Pacifist Quaker1900 -1976. Reminiscences of a war of independence veteran,who became a Section Commander of the IRA, subsequentlydiscovered pacifism and Friends and joined the Society in 1943.Roscrea: CBL Services. ISBN 978-0-9552961-0-9, 36 pp 10.Lamb, Charles B. (ed.) 2017 George Fox’s formative years 16241651. 10th edition. An annotated selection from the ‘Journal’ of thefounder of Quakerism. Roscrea: CBL Services. ISBN 9780955296161, 111 pp 10.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 11

Lamb, Charles B. (ed.) 2017 To all that would know the way to thekingdom An annotated version of an early tract by George Fox, thefounder of Quakerism. Roscrea: CBL Services. ISBN 9 78095529613030 pp 10.McCrum, Seán and Anthony Kelly, 2018 (withphotographs by Doreen Kennedy) 2018 Temple HillBurial Ground Blackrock, Co. Dublin from 1860 to 2018. A history of the Burial Ground with a CD interviewwith Christopher Nuzum. Dublin: Farpoint Recordings.ISBN 978-1-9164019-0-7, 42 pp, illustrated. 15.Minihan, Julianna 2018. Quakers and the Enlightenment: thecontext of schism in the early 18th century. Dublin: HistoricalCommittee Occasional papers in Irish Quaker history No. 6. ISSN0791 0791 768 8 pp. 5.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 12

Murdoch, Fiona 2002. Victor Bewley’s Memoirs. The life storyof a well-known Dublin Friend (1912-1999) as told to his granddaughter, revealing a sensitive man with a quiet determination tohelp others. The account includes his vision for the familybusiness and work with the Travelling Community. Dublin:Veritas. ISBN 1 85390 687 5, 112 pp. 15,Neill, Desmond G. 1992. Portlaw. A 19th Century QuakerEnterprise based on a model village. The Malcomson mill villageof 1825 preceded the planned villages of Bessbrook and Sion Millsin Ulster and may have influenced the plans for Bournville. Dublin:Historical Committee Occasional papers in Irish Quaker historyNo 1. ISSN 0791 0791 768 16 pp. 5Opperman, Averil Douglas 2015 While it is yet Day The Story ofElizabeth Fry. A very readable biography. Leominster, OrphansPublishing. ISBN 9 781903360149. 331 pp . 20.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 13

Pearson, Arthur and A. Gordon 2015. Friends Ambulance Unit inWorld War I and World War II- experiences of two generations of aDublin Quaker family. Dublin: Original Writing Ltd. ISBN 978-178237-926-3, 132 pp, illustrated. 10.Pearson, Irwin 2021. Smith and Pearson Ltd. An Irish EngineeringCompany in the early ears of the State. The author, a grandson of thefounder of the company, John Biglands Pearson, was closely involvedwith the company for most of his adult life. .Dublin: HistoricalCommittee. ISBN 978-1-9161092-2-3. 73 pp. illustrated. 10.Pollard, Rachel 2006. The Avenue A History of the ClaremontInstitution. Dublin: Denzillo Press. ISBN 9780955323904. 325 pp. 20.00.Friends Historical Library Dublin – Booklist Page 14