Constantia Maxwell
Life
1886-1962 [Constantia Elizabeth]; b. Dublin, ed. St Leonards Sch.,
St. Andrews, Bedford Coll., London and then TCD; taught at TCD,
becoming Prof. of Economic History, 1939; first woman appointed a chair
in TCD; Lecky Professor (Modern History), 1945; sel. and ed. Arthur Youngs Tour of Ireland (1925); The English Traveller in France
(1932); Dublin Under the Georges (1936); Irish Town and Country under the Georges (1940); History of Trinity College (1946); The Stranger in Ireland, From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine
(1954); member of Irish Academy of Letters; retired 1951; d. 6 Feb. 1962, in
Pembury, Kent. DIW DIB DIH DIL2
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Works A Short History of Ireland (Dublin & Belfast: Educational Company
of Ireland; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1914); ed. [ & sel.] Arthur Youngs Tour of Ireland (q.d.); Irish History from Contemporary Sources
1509-1610 (London: Allen & Unwin 1932); The English Traveller
in France (1932); Dublin Under the Georges 1714-1830 (London:
George Harrap 1936; 1937; rev. edn. London: Faber 1956), Do. [2nd
edn.] (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1961; rep. Lambay Books 1997), 350pp., with
index; Country and Town under the Georges (London: G. G. Harrap
1940; rev. edn. London: Faber 1956); Irish Town and Country under
the Georges (1940); A History of Trinity College (Dublin: University
Press 1946); The Stranger in Ireland, From the Reign of Elizabeth to
the Great Famine (London: Cape 1954).
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Quotations
Giraldus Cambrensis: [his works] have all the faults of the
medieval chronicle. His description of the early Irish as a race of savages
is not strictly true, as may be seen from archaeological remains, old
Irish literature and musical attainments, illuminated books, and the gold
and silver ornaments and ornamental metal work now displayed in the national
Museum, Dublin (Stranger in Ireland, 1954, p.315 [chap. on
Spenser]).
Note: Maxwell adds in an ensuing note: the difference in outlook
between the Irish chieftains of the [Norman] period and the emissaries
that reached Ireland from Spain and Rome are well brought out in Archbishop
Mathews book, The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe
(1933). The reference is to David Mathew (1876-1916), a Welsh churchman whose scholarship is commemorated in Thomas Matthews Welsh Record in Paris, ed. Dylan Rees & John Gwynfor Jones (Cardiff 2010), 192pp.
Irish tradition: The old
people who had known and related the ancient tales and legends died off
in their thousands, and the young people they had brought up in the old
traditions swarmed to America. The continuity of national custom and rural
life as it had existed in the eighteenth century for the most part was
broken. (Country and Town in Ireland under the Georges, London:
Harrap 1940; quoted in Seán de Fréine, The Great Silence:
the study of a relationship between language and nationality Cork:
Mercier 1978, p.82).
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References
University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds Irish History
from contemporary sources 1509-1610 (1923).
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