Hi, Tamy, I would agree that you should get Anne Coleman's book Riotous Roscommon / Social Unrest in the 1840s (1999. Dublin: Irish Academic Press) and read Robert Scally's The End of Hidden Ireland / Rebellion, Famine & Emigration (1995. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press). You didn't identify the locality of your particular interest but here are some others you may want to consider, though I don't think any of them is exclusively a county history for the time period you specified: The Great Irish Famine by Stephen Campbell. 1994. Strokestown. The Famine Museum. A Parish History of Kilglass Slatta Ruskey by Liam Coyle. Published by the Kilglass Gaels. Celtic Ireland West of the River Shannon / A Look Back at the Rich Heritage and Dynastic Structure of the Gaelic Clans by Patrick Lavin. 2003. Writers Club Press. New York Lincoln and Shanghai. Mid-Connacht /The Ancient Territory of Sliabh Lugha by Maire McDonnell-Garvey. 1995. Drumlin Publications, Nure, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. Printed by Colour Books Ltd, Dublin. Roscommon Before the Famine by William Gacquin. 1996. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. The Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette 1822-1887 / A Chronicle of the 19th Century. 1999. Boyle: The Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette. Social Conflict in Pre-Famine Roscommon. Dublin. Four Courts Press. Forthcoming this year or early in 2004. The Heart of Ireland by P.A. Sharkey. 1927. MJ Ward, Princess Hotel, Publisher. Various books treat some portions of Roscommon history, among them are Donal Kerr's 'A Nation of Beggars'? Priests, People and Politics in Famine Ireland 1846-1852, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and The Famine Ships by Edward Laxton. 1996, New York, Henry Holt and Co. Also, Emigrants from Ireland 1847-1852 / State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland by Eilish Ellis. 1993. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore. Finally, there is a Roscommon Archeological Society Journal and take a look at The O'Beirne Family Journal (search on the title at google.com).Also worth checking is the Moylfinne Journal / A Quarterly Study of Co. Roscommon Family History put out by the Co. Roscommon Family History Society. There are a number of books about Grosse Ile and Denis Mahon's (of Strokestown) forced emigrations to Grosse Ile in Quebec. Look for books by Marianna O'Gallagher and Rose Masson Dompierre (Carraig Books) and Andre Charbonneau and Andre Sevigny (Parks Canada). In addition, check out The Search for Missing Friends, ed. by Ruth-Ann Harris, et al. for ads posted by Roscommon immigrants to the U.S. who had lost family members due to Famine and emigration chaos. These are ads from The Boston Pilot over about 70 years. I hope this is useful to you. I would welcome any additions to this list. Please let the rest of us know of any other books. The Ballykilcline web site is at www.ballykilcline.com. Mary Lee Dunn The Ballykilcline Society