Books

 

Eastoe, J. (2012). The Art of Taxidermy. London: Pavillion Books

 

Foster, J. W. (ed.), (1997). Nature in Ireland: A Scientific & Cultural History. Dublin: Lilliput Press

 

Ledbetter, G. T. (2010) , Privilege & Poverty: The Life & Times of Artist & Naturalist Alexander Williams RHA. Cork: The Collins Press

 

McKee, M. (1983), James Sheals: Naturalist & Taxidermist. The Story of Victorian and Edwardian Taxidermy. Belfast: The Ulster Museum

 

Murphy, S. (2021), The First National Museum: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the Mid- Nineteenth Century, Cork: University Press 

 

Patten, C.J. (1906), The Aquatic Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, London: RH Porter

 

Praeger, R.L. (1949), Some Irish Naturalists. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press

*  The edition of this text kept by the National Museum of Ireland Library contains a selection of handwritten notes at the end detailing briefly some more obscure figures. This is where I gained valuable information relating to former in-house taxidermists Robert Pride and J.N. Halbert.

 

Richardson, H.D (1846) Facts Concerning the natural history, &c, of the gigantic Irish deer, (cervus giganteus hibernicus), Dublin

 

Watters, J.J. (1853), The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, Indigenous & Migratory, Dublin: J.McGlashan

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Catalogues

 

Anonymous (1853), Official Catalogue of the Great Industrial Exhibition (in connection with the Royal Dublin Society), Dublin: John Falconer

 

Journal Articles

 

Adelman, J.(2005). ‘Evolution on Display: Promoting Irish Natural History and Darwinism at the Science & Art Museum, Dublin’, The British Journal for the History of Science, 38(4), pp 411-436

 

Adelman, J. (2010). ‘An insight into commercial natural history: Richard Glennon, William Hinchy and the nineteenth-century trade in giant Irish deer remains’, Archives of Natural History, 39(1), pp 16-26

 

Barrington, R.M. (1906). ‘Edward Williams. Born 8th May, 1848. Died 15th December, 1905’, The Irish Naturalist, 15(2), pp 21-26.

 

de Courcy, C. (2010). ‘Trevelyan’s Rhinoceros and other gifts from India to Dublin Zoo’, History Ireland, 18(4), pp 14-16

 

Glennon, R. (1833). ‘Gleanings of Natural History in Ireland no. V.’ Dublin Penny Journal, 1(32) pp 332-334

 

Glennon, R. (1847). ‘On the discovery of the bones of extinct deer, &c, at Lough Gur in the County of Limerick.’ The Zoologist, 5: 1589-1593

 

Murphy, S. (2008). ‘They’re not going to change it, are they? The Museum of Natural History Dublin as Material Culture’, Circa, 124, pp 42-47

 

Williams, A. (1908). ‘Wild Bird Protection in Co. Dublin’, The Irish Naturalist, 17(6), pp 119-22

 

Directories

 

Belfast Alphabetical Directory 1831

 

Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory 1858-1859, 1866, 1890, 1892

 

Belfast Directory 1887

 

Guy’s Directory of Munster, 1883, 1893, 1897, 1903 Cork: Guy & Co Ltd.

 

Martin’s Belfast Directory 1839, 1835-1836

 

New Commercial Directory 1840

 

Slater’s National Commercial Directory of Cork City and County, 1881

 

Thom, A.(1866). Thom’s Irish Almanack and Official Directory for the year 1866. Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co.

 

Thom, A. (1883).Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co.

 

Wilson’s Dublin Directory, for the year 1830. Dublin: W.Corbet

 

R.D.S Proceedings

 

Royal Dublin Society, Proceedings 1831-1866, RDS. [online]. Available at: https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/273 [accessed December 2022]

 

Interviews

 

O’Connell, C. (2022), Interview with Nigel Monaghan, 27 October.

O’Connell, C. (2022), Interview with Sherra Murphy, 2 November.

 

Web pages and other online sources

 

Haughey, K. (2016). Introducing the Glennon Diorama & The Glennon Family Tree. [online]. Available at: 

https://glennondiorama.wordpress.com/page/2/ [accessed December 2022].

 

Hobbs, J. (2022). First Irish Records 1800-2010. S.l. [online]. Available at:

https://www.southdublinbirds.com/notes/notes/firstIrish1800-2010-v.1.7(JH).pdf [accessed November 2022]. 

 

National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census fragments and substitutes, 1821-51 [online]. Available at:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ [accessed December 2022].

 

Rohu, C. and Rohu, V. (no date).  Rohu Family History [online]. Available at:

https://rohuhistory.weebly.com/index.html [accessed December 2022].

 

Rohu, A. (1943), Interview with Radio Eireann (online). Available at: 

https://rohuhistory.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/4/7/16476080/alfred_rohu_interview-1.pdf [accessed December 2022].

 

RTE News (1983). RTE 1 Television, 11 July [online]. Available at:

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0628/973940-top-class-taxidermy/ [accessed December 2022].

 

Pavid, Katie (no date), Why is taxidermy still valuable? [online]. Available at: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-is-taxidermy-still-valuable.html [accessed December 2022].

 

Archival Sources

 

F.R. Rohu (1888)- correspondence with Robert Scharff, May 3. Held in National Museum of Ireland- Collections Resource Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin.

 

Rohu, F.R, Sheals, J. and Williams, W. in Museum Specimens sent to Taxidermists 1887-1949. Held in National Museum of Ireland- Collections Resource Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin.

Rohu, F.R, Sheals, J. and Williams, W. in Stuffing Specimens etc, 1888-1909. Held in National Museum of Ireland- Collections Resource Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin.

 

Rohu, F.R, Sheals, J. and Williams, W. in Stuffing Specimens 1910-1923. Held in National Museum of Ireland- Collections Resource Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin.

 

Record Books 1839-40. Held in National Museum of Ireland- Collections Resource Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin.

Theses/Dissertations

Connolly, A. (2017), Dead Décor: The Design History and Material Culture of Ireland’s Taxidermy Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1870-1910. Thesis,Dissertation, NCAD