An incomplete list of books, pamphlets, websites etc. which have material on Dennisons and related families, where they live and lived, especially the local area around North Donegal and Ireland. Items are in alphabetical order of title (or should be).
A Story Through Time - The Formation of the Scenic Landscapes of Ireland [North] by Patrick J. McKeever, PhD. published by the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (1999), with accompanying map
A Tour in Ireland by Arthur Young, (check - original was London, 1892)
Ards Forest Park Creeslough, Co. Donegal by Coillte
Atlas of the Irish Civil War, Cork University Press
Atlas of the Irish Famine, Cork University Press
Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape by F.H.A. Aalen, K. Whelan and M. Stoute. Cork University Press, 1997
Built Upon a Hill The Story of St. John's Church, Ballymore, 1752 - 2002 by Brian Moriarty, 2004
Children of the Dead End by Patrick MacGill, , , (originally published by , London, 1919)
Colmcille ...built many chapels in Tír Chonaill - Investigating the Evidence by Adhamhnán Ó Domhnaill, 1997
Geology Series
Cill Daragh School 1881 - 1976 Reunion August 1st - 4th 2005 by Kathleen McClafferty and Maureen Boyce et al.
Cloughaneely Myth & Fact by Gerry McLoughlin,
Cnusach Focal as Ros Goill by Leaslaoi U. Lucas, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, Báile Átha Cliath, 1986
County Donegal Book of Honour The Great War, 1914 - 1918 by County Donegal Book of Honour Committee, 2002
Creeslough-Dunfanaghy Guide Book by Doe Historical Committee, 1987
Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (For reference to Theaker Wilder - cited in Alumni Dublinenses)
Doe Castle by Kevin Ward
Donegal and the Civil War - the untold story by Liam Ó Duibhir, Mercier Press, Cork, 2011
Donegal History and Society by W. Nolan, L. Ronayne and M. Donleavy. Dublin 1995
Donegal Poitín A History by Aidan Manning, 2002
Donegal Shipwrecks by Ian Wilson, Impact Printing (of Coleraine) Ltd., Ballycastle, 1998
Donegal A Chronicle of the Twentieth Century by John Jude Devenney, 2000
Donegal, Ireland and the First World War by Niall Mac Fhionnghaile, An Crann, Leitir Ceannain, 1987
Donegal - the Making of a Northern County, Jim MacLaughlkin, Editor, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2011
God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheál Ó Siochrú, London, 2008 (publisher?)
Highways and Byways of Donegal and Antrim by Stephen Gwynn, New York 1899 (check)
Hill Walkers Donegal 38 Hill and Sea Cliff Routes for the Stroller and Mountaineer by David Herman, Shanksmare Publications, 2000
Ireland in Old Photographs - Donegal by Seán Beattie, Sutton Publishing, 2004
Ireland - A Natural History by David Cabot, Harper Collins, London, 1999
Islanders by Peadar O'Donnell, (publisher and date - Dublin 1928?)
Kilmacrennan - Guided Trails by Margaret Carton, published with the support of the Kilmacrennan Development Association in 1985. This is an excellent book which gives some good detailed information on the neighbouring Kilmacrennan area and as far south as Lough Salt
Landscapes from Stone. Part of the Landscapes from Stone series, this contains a wonderfully concise and well illustrated lay-persons description of the geological history of the area.
Lanty Hanlon - a comedy of Irish Life, by Patrick MacGill, Brandon, 1983 (originally published by , 19xx)
Mevagh Down the Years by Dr. Leslie W. Lucas. Third Edition, Appletree Press, Belfast, 1983
Moleskin Joe by Patrick MacGill, , , (originally published by , 19xx)
More About Mevagh by Dr. Leslie W. Lucas
O'Donnells of Tír Chonaill A Concise History of the O'Donnell Clan Edited by Vincent O'Donnell, O'Donnell Clan Association, 2nd Ed Reprint 2000
Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Parishes of County Donegal I 1833-5 North East Donegal Vol. 38 Edited by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1990
Peadar O'Donnell by Grattan Freyer, Bucknell University Press - Irish Writers Series, Lewisburg, USA, 1973
Rambles in the Dunfanaghy Area by Tom Phelan, Arnolds Hotel, 1995
Ramelton An illustrated guide to the town by Mary Haggan, 3rd Ed. Revised, 2006
Rotha Mhór an tSaol/The Hard Road to Klondike by Micheál MacGowan, London, 1962
Sky, Sea, Sod by Dominic O'Kelly (check)
The Age of Titanic - cross-currents of Anglo-American culture, by John Wilson Foster, Merlin, Dublin, 2002
St. Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny Irish Heritage Series by Graham Harrison, Eason & Sons, Dublin 1988
That Old Sinner The Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway by Frank Sweeney, Irish History Press, 2006
The Archaeological Survey of Co. Donegal ed Brian Lacy, Dublin 1983
The Cappucin Annual
The Donegal Annual published by the County Donegal Historical Society since 1946. Early editions have been republished in three collections: Volume 1 : 1947 – 1953 (7 Annuals); Volume 2 : 1954 – 1959 (5 Annuals); Volume 3 : 1960 – 1964 (5 Annuals).
The Donegal Plantation and the Tír Chonaill Irish, 1610-1710 by Darren McGettigan, Maynooth Studies in Local History, No 93, Four Courts Press, 2010
The Drontheim Forgotten Sailing Boat of the North Irish Coast by Dónal MacPoilin, 1999
The Great Push by Patrick MacGill, Caliban Books, London, 1984 (originally published by , 19xx)
The History of Landlordism in Donegal by P Ó Gallchobhair, Ballyshannon, 1975 (original place and date?)
The Irish Constabularies 1822-1922 - a century of policing in Ireland by Donal J. O'Sullivan, Brandon, Dingle, Co. Kerry, 1999
The Irish History of Civilization Volume One by Donald Harman Akenson, Granta Books, London, 2005
The Irish History of Civilization Volume Two by Donald Harman Akenson, Granta Books, London, 2006
The Last of the Name by Charles McGlinchey, The Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2001 Ed. Growing up and living in Inishowen.
The Outer Edge of Ulster A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal by Hugh Dorian, The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2000
The Story of Rosapenna Over 100 Years of Golfing History by Kevin Ward, 2002
The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill, Caliban Books, London, 1984 (originally published by Jenkins, London, 1916)
The Way That I Went by Robert Lloyd Praeger, Dublin, 1937 (check)
The Plantation of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon (check publisher, place and date)
The Rat Pit by Patrick MacGill, , , (originally published by , London, 1915)
The Royal Irish Constabulary - an oral history by John D. Brewer, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1990
This is Donegal Tweed - the traditional techniques, the history, the people behind the famous textile, by Judith Head, Shoestring Publications, Inver, Co. Donegal, 1987
Other good sites with lists of books with a Donegal connection are:
Booshops & Libraries
Eason's, Letterkenny. Formerly ABC Bookshop, in the Courtyard Shopping Centre
The Gallery, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal
The Workhouse, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal
Ionad Cois Locha, Dun Lewey, Co. Donegal
Creeslough Supermarket, Creeslough, Co. Donegal (The former Lafferty's supermarket was a good local source of books, pamplets and local magazines)
Boyce's Centra Convenience Store, Carrigart, Co. Donegal
McAuliff's Gift Shop, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal (sadly now closed)
Four Masters Bookshop, Donegal Town, Co. Donegal
Donegal County Library, Milford & Letterkenny branches.