Marcella Gerrard's Galway estate, 1820–70

Tom Crehan

'Tom Crehan researches the Gerrard estate community in east Galway over an extended period, with an assessment of the impact on it of the Great Famine of 1845–1848. His ability to explore the changing context of land ownership is excellent … Crehan provides a template for other landed estate studies', Gerard Moran, The Local Historian (April 2015).

‘The Maynooth Studies in Local History have brought about a quiet revolution in Irish local studies, and have changed the larger landscape too. Working from fascinating and little-known sources, and mobilizing the resources of energetic and imaginative scholarship, an extraordinary range of subjects has been identified, illuminated, and brought into focus. These 100 publications not only explore little known local episodes and phenomena; they constitute a major contribution to the mainstream of Irish history’, R.F. Foster, historian.