Life
1823-1905 [err. Catherine], née Guinness; m. Samuel Ferguson, 16
Aug. 1848; The Story of the Irish Before the Conquest (1868), Do.,
[2nd Edn. (Bell & sons 1890) [incl. appendix on Sources and Nomenclature
by Samuel Ferguson]; Do. [3rd rev. edn.] (1903); Sir Samuel
Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, 2 vols. (William Blackwood 1896).
DNB DIW
Works
Lady [Catharine] Ferguson, Life of the Right Rev. William Reeves, DD (1893),
a bibliography of his works incl. unpub. RIA papers [Hyland 219; 1995].
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Notes
Lady Ferguson, The Irish before the Conquest, 2nd. ed., maps, rev.
(Sealy, Bryers & Walker, n.d.; c.1906).
Roy Foster draws attention to the significance of this work [1868] as an accessible, effective treatment that made popular stories of mythic heroes and heroines like Cuchulainn and Deirdre but also the division of Irish history into ‘the Mythic Period’, ‘the Heroic Period, helping to create a sense of national destiny and nationalist amour propre. [See ‘The Magic of Its Lovely Dawn, Reading Irish history as Story’ [Carroll Inaugural Lecture], TLS, 16 Dec. 1994.]
University of Ulster Library, Morris Collection has Sir Samuel Ferguson [... &c.] 2 vols. (1896).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)