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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
To mark the bicentenary of the foundation of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, there is presented here a select bibliography of printed material pertaining to aspects of the history of the college itself and also of Maynooth town and district.
Maynooth emerged as an important settlement by virtue of its association with the Anglo-Norman family of Fitzgerald in the late twelfth century. In 1176 Maurice Fitzgerald, founder of the Geraldine dynasty in Ireland, received confirmation of a grant of lands in the O’Byrne district of Uí Fáeláin, including the lordships of Maynooth and Naas, and Maynooth castle (the ruins of which stand adjacent to the entrance to the college) was subsequently constructed at the junction between two streams, the Lyreen and the Joan Slade. His grandson, Maurice, second baron of Offaly, was instrumental in having Maynooth elevated in ecclesiastical status: in 1248, at Maurice’s request, Archbishop Luke of Dublin erected Maynooth as prebend of St Patrick’s cathedral, and the perpetual right of presentation was entrusted to Fitzgerald and his successors.
1 The Civil Survey, A.D. 1654–56, ed. Simington, R. C. (10 vols, I.M.C., Dublin, 1931-61), viii Google Scholar: Kildare, p. xviii; Cambrensis, Giraldus, Expugnatio Hibernica: the conquest of Ireland, ed. with trans, and historical notes by Scott, A.B. and Martin, F.X. (Dublin, 1978), p. 143 Google Scholar; Fitzgerald, Walter, ‘The ancient territories out of which the present County Kildare was formed and their septs’ in Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., i (1891-5), p. 159 Google Scholar; Flanagan, Marie Therese, ‘Henry II and the kingdom of Uí Fáeláin’ in Bradley, John (ed.), Settlement and society in medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin (Kilkenny, 1988), pp 229–39.Google Scholar
2 Calendar of Archbishop Alen’s register, c. 1172–1534, ed. McNeill, Charles (Dublin, 1949), p. 298 Google Scholar; Mason, W. Monck, The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St Patrick near Dublin, from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819 (Dublin, 1820), p. 60 Google Scholar; Blacker, George, A record of the history of Maynooth church, but principally of the prebendaries of Maynooth and the vicars of Laraghbryan (Dublin, 1867), pp 5–6 Google Scholar; Healy, John, ‘The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Maynooth, County Kildare’ in I.E.R., 3rd ser., i (1880), pp 537–48 Google Scholar; Duke of Leinster, ‘Maynooth castle’ in Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., i (1891-5), p. 223 Google Scholar; MacSweeney, M.T., ‘The parish of Maynooth, 1040 A.D.-1614 A.D.’ in I.E.R., 5th ser., lvi (July-Dec. 1940), pp 305-20, 412–8, 497–509Google Scholar.
3 Costello, Con, Looking back: aspects of history, County Kildare (Naas, 1988), p. 24.Google Scholar
4 Fitzgerald, C.W., The earls of Kildare and their ancestors from 1057 to 1773 (3rd ed., Dublin, 1858), p. 27 Google Scholar.
5 Dignitas decani, pp 83–91; Red Bk Kildare, pp 176–7; Archdall, Mervyn, Monasticon Hibernicum (2 vols, Dublin, 1873-6), ii, 282Google Scholar; Healy, ‘College of the Blessed Virgin Mary’; Leinster, ‘Maynooth castle’, p. 224. Ronan, M.V., ‘Anglo-Norman Dublin and diocese’ in I.E.R., 5th ser., xlix (Jan.-June 1937), pp 158-9Google Scholar; Lyons, M.A., ‘Sidelights on the Kildare ascendancy: a survey of Geraldine involvement in the church, c. 1470-c. 1520’ in Archiv. Hib., xlviii 1994), pp 73–87 Google Scholar.
6 Quoted from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles in Leinster, ‘Maynooth castle’, p. 227.
7 Cal. pat. rolls. Ire., Hen. VIII-Eliz., pp 263–4.
8 Leinster, ‘Maynooth castle’, pp 232–3.
9 Civil Survey, viii: Kildare, p. 7.
10 Monk, Thomas, ‘A descriptive account of the county of Kildare in 1682’, abstracted in Kildare Arch. Soc. Jn., vi (1909-11), p. 343 Google Scholar (one of a series of topographical papers written around 1682 for Sir William Petty with a view towards publication, which was prevented by the political disturbances that ensued thereafter); quoted in Leinster, ‘Maynooth castle’, p. 233.
11 Costello, Looking back, p. 24.
12 Crolly, George, The life of the Most Rev. Dr Crolly, archbishop of Armagh (Dublin, 1851).Google Scholar
13 Some of the most widely read works of this nature include P.A. Sheehan’s novels Luke Delmege (London, 1905) and A spoiled priest and other stories (London & Dublin, 1905)Google Scholar; O’Donovan, Gerald, Father Ralph (London, 1913)Google Scholar; Leslie, Shane, Doomsland (London, 1923)Google Scholar; and Malone, Richard Francis, The witcheens: a tale of Maynooth and London (London, 1928)Google Scholar.
14 Quoted in Newman, Jeremiah, Maynooth and Georgian Ireland (Galway, 1979), pp 30–31.Google Scholar
15 For a listing of general works regarding the Kildare ascendancy see the bibliographies of Cosgrove, Art (ed.), A new history of Ireland, ii: Medieval Ireland, 1169–1534 (Oxford, 1987)Google Scholar; Moody, T.W., Martin, F.X. and Byrne, F.J. (eds), A new history of Ireland, iii: Early modern Ireland, 1534–1691 (Oxford, 1976)Google Scholar; Ellis, Steven, Tudor Ireland: crown, community and the conflict of cultures, 1470–1603 (London, 1985)Google Scholar; Clarke, Aidan, Gillespie, Raymond and McGuire, James, A new history of Ireland: bibliographical supplement, 1534–1691 (Dublin, 1991)Google Scholar; Lennon, Colm, Sixteenth-century Ireland: the incomplete conquest (Dublin, 1994).Google Scholar
16 Newman, , Maynooth and Georgian Ireland, p. 31 Google Scholar. It should, however, be noted that Maynooth was not the first choice of the Irish hierarchy in their selection of a site for the college, with several other locations such as Stillorgan House and demesne and the house and property of the late Judge Helen at Mespill-bank, near the Donnybrook road, having been given prior consideration (see Brady, John, Catholics and Catholicism in the eighteenth-century press (Maynooth, 1965), p. 296 Google Scholar).
17 Healy, John, Maynooth College: its centenary history, 1795–1895 (Dublin, 1895), pp 126-7Google Scholar.