Number 51 1999. €15.00
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America's first Irish visitor by Brian McGinn 7
Pompeo Batoni and his Kilkenny sitters by John Kirwan 10
Yeats - the Kilkenny connection by Margery Brady 24
A caveat by Lord Dunboyne 23
Mary, Kitty and Rita - the three Harte sisters by Margaret M. Phelan 24
The Archdeacon (Cody) family in the American South 1730-1875 by Thomas Boaz 28
The 1659 Census by Thomas B. Halpin 44
Kilkenny District Model School by Joseph Doyle 50
A letter from America by Richard Kiely 75
The Shirley eviction from their farm at Burnchurch in 1850 by C. Ashton Shirley 80
The 1718 Kilkenny Presentation of Freedom to Richard Tighe of Dublin by Thomas Sinsteden 88
From India to Brazil: Nicholas Comerford, a seventeenth-century Kilkenny-born cartographer by Patrick Comerford 92
The lost Swiss cottage of Woodstock: its architecture and its illustrations by Jeremy Williams 103
The reform of Kilkenny Corporation in the Repeal Year of 1843 by Tony Patterson 112
Book reviews 128
Proceedings of Kilkenny Archaeological Society 1999 130