A review of 'Business archival sources for the local historian by Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh'

Abstract

This, the most recent volume of the Maynooth Research Guides in Irish Local History series, brings together the expertise troika of the socio-economic historian, the accountant and the accounting historian. The result is a valuable combination of the 'who,' 'what,' 'where' and 'how-to' of business history. The authors are already well-immersed in such research: they have singly and jointly published much related work, and have together compiled a database of business-related material in the National Archives of Ireland, a copy of which is reproduced at the...