Romanticism, Nationalism and Irish Antiquarian Societies, 1840-80 Damien Murray Maynooth Monographs Series Minor lll The Department of Old and Middle Irish National University of Ireland Maynooth Written in English.

The subjects of this book are three societies who published historical documents and manuscript texts during the period 1840-80.

The three societies in question were the Irish Archaeological Society (founded in 1840) and the Celtic Society ) 1845) – these two merged in 1854 – and the Ossianic Society (1853). Among them the three societies issued thirty-nine volumes.