Leabhar na Longánach: The Ó Longáin family and their manuscripts

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By Pádraig Ó Macháin and Sorcha Nic Lochlainn (ed.)

This book features essays (in Irish and English) on the work of the most remarkable Gaelic scribes of the 18th and 19th centuries – the Ó Longáin family of Cork. 

Topics covered include script, decoration, manuscript production, lithography, patronage and antiquarianism.

Authors: John Mulcahy, Pádraig de Brún, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, Breandán Ó Conchúir, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Joan Rockley, Timothy O’Neill, Pádraig Ó Macháin, Margaret Lantry, and Richard Sharpe.

ISBN 978-1-9996859-0-4 (Cork: Cló Torna 2018) viii + 408 pp