George Coffey

For the American pedologist, seeGeorge Nelson Coffey.

George Coffey(1857–1916) was a scholar of Irish history and cultural revivalist.

Coffey was a bookbinder, archaeologist, and the first keeper of antiquities at theNational Museum of Ireland.He was associated with thecultural revivalmovement andDouglas Hyde'sGaelic Leagueand the rediscovery of the Irish language.

Works

His works include:

• English and Irish Coins, A Manual for Collectors,1882
• "Home Rule, Answers to Objections",The Irish Question,no. 30, The Irish Press Agency: London, 1888
• "How the Union was Carried",The Irish Question,no. 40, The Irish Press Agency: London, 1890
• Coffey, George (1892–1896), "On the Tumuli and Inscribed Stones at New Grange, Dowth, and Knowth",The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,30,Royal Irish Academy: 1–96,JSTOR30079776
• Coffey, George (December 1894), "The Origins of Prehistoric Ornament in Ireland",The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland,5th series,4(4), Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: 349–379,JSTOR25508176
• Royal Irish Academy Collection Guide to the Celtic Antiquities of the Christian period preserved in the National Museum, Dublin,Hodges, Figgis, & Co.: Dublin; Williams & Norgate: London, 1909
• Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities (Royal Irish Academy Collection): Anglo Irish Coins,1911
• New Grange (Brugh na Boinne) and other incised tumuli in Ireland,1912,( reprinted by The Dolphin Press 1977ISBN0856420417)
• The Bronze Age in Ireland,Hidges, Figgis, & Co.: Dublin; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.: London, 1913

External links

• Works by George CoffeyatProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about George CoffeyatInternet Archive