The McManus bookshelf
Books & Research Resources
Discover McManus authors, books to buy, free reading, and library resources for family-history research.
Featured books to buy
A selection from our authors’ collections. Follow the Amazon links for current editions and availability.
Mustoe: Volume Three: The Alsatian Roots of Dorothy Seyler, wife of Anthony Mustoe
The Palatinate, the Peninsular and the Slum
Michael McManus explores the historical sociology of policing, public administration, inequality, and Irish immigration in Victorian Durham.
Genes and Septs Reunited
Michael McManus combines documentary history and Y-DNA evidence to examine the relationship between the McManus and O’Conor families of Connaught.
Free books & online reading
Explore digitized books and historical texts alongside our contributors’ research. These resources are linked for reading and research; availability and sign-in requirements depend on the holding institution.
- Where Rests Our Genesis — McManus family history and parish references for North Roscommon. Open the FamilySearch digital copy or read our introduction.
- Annals of Ulster — historical context for Irish family research. Read the English text at University College Cork’s CELT or visit our guide to digitized volumes.
- Kilronan parish extracts — browse the searchable MFH collection alongside the books that draw on these records.
Find books in libraries
Use the catalogue links below to look for a nearby copy. Ask your public library about borrowing or interlibrary loan; a catalogue record does not guarantee that a copy can be borrowed.
Explore the wider collection
Browse books by subject or browse all book articles, including Drumshanbo by Conor McManus.
Michael McManus’s book collection
- A Thousand Words
- Between the Mountain and the Mine
- From Fate to Choice
- From Townland to Township
- Genes and Septs Reunited
- Institutional Landscapes
- Paupers, Doctors, and Ratepayers
- Shout It Out!
- Stigmata and Other Signs
- The Bureaucratisation of Grace
- The Entrepreneur of Grace
- The Palatinate, the Peninsular and the Slum
- The Science of Order
- The State or the Market?
- The Unwritten Dance
- The Watched Life
- The Weight of Things We Carry
- Win the Coal, Win the War