Welsh Journals

SHORT NOTICES Two admirable bibliographical aids for Irish history have appeared. P. W. A. Apslin, Medieval Ireland, c. 1170-1495: a Bibliography of Secondary Works (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1971. Pp. xv, 139. £ 1.50) is the first of a series of publications ancillary to the new nine- volume history of Ireland currently being prepared under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. In eighteen sections, it provides a compre- hensive guide to the whole range of printed secondary writing now available for the study of Irish medieval history. The section on serial publications is especially helpful. Readers will also look forward to the guide on primary sources now being prepared by Dr. J. F. Lydon. T. W. Moody (ed.), Irish Historiography, 1936-70 (Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, Dublin, 1971. Pp. viii, 155. £ 1.00) is a superb survey of Irish historical writing, originally presented to the Bureau of the Comite International des Sciences Historiques. Seven interpretative essays cover Ireland before the Norman Invasion (F. J. Byrne), Medieval Ireland (Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven), the Sixteenth Century (R. Dudley Edwards), the Seventeenth Century (J. G. Simms), the Eighteenth Century (Sir Herbert Butterfield), the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century (both by Helen F. Mulvey). A final survey of the main trends of the past twenty-five years in Irish historiography is by Professor Moody himself. Pending the full bibliography which will be issued as an ancillary volume to the new History of Ireland, this new publication is immensely helpful. Welsh historical studies would certainly benefit from a similar volume. Two most handsome reprints were issued in 1970 by S. R. Publications, East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire. John Speed's Atlas, Part II: Wales ( £ 5.25) makes available again these celebrated maps, one for each county (including Monmouthshire), which were originally published in 1611. Also re-issued was Benjamin Heath Malkin's The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales (pp. 634. £ 6.30), originally published in 1804 and described by the late Professor R. T. Jenkins as 'by far the best of the old travel-books on South Wales'. This new reprint has a helpful foreword by Mr. T. J. Hopkins. A. H. Dodd, The Industrial Revolution in North Wales (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1971, Pp. xlv, 439. £ 3.75) is a third, revised edition of this classic of Welsh historical scholarship. It includes a supplementary bibliography which covers material, primary and secondary, that has become available since the second edition appeared in 1951. Bulletin No. 4 (Caernarvonshire County Record Office, 1971) continues the series of comprehensive, handsomely-illustrated appendices to the County Archivist's annual report (issues 1-3 of the Bulletin were