Margaret Stokes Celtic Connoisseur

Peter Murray pays tribute to the scholar and artist whose meticulous recording of Irish antiquities in the 19th century remains an invaluable resource today


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Although Margaret McNair Stokes (1832-1900) was one of the most distinguished female scholars in 19th-century Ireland, nowhere is she properly honoured as the most important Irish woman antiquarian of her day.

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