Gerard Madden is a native of Whitegate, County Clare, and is the

author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...

of a number of books dealing with the ancestry of Irish families, including the Maddens of County Galway.

References

*Holy Island, Jewel of the Lough, 1990, reprinted 1996, 2004, 2016 *For God or King, The History of

Mountshannon Mountshannon (, historically anglicised as ''Ballybolan'') is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the Catholic parish Mountshannon-Whitegate. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon ...

, 1742 - 1992 (1993) reprinted 1997 *The Famine Memorial Park,

Tuamgraney Tuamgraney (; archaically spelled ''Tomgraney, Tomgrenei''; ) is a village in eastern County Clare in the west of Ireland and a civil parish by the same name. Situated a kilometre from the River Graney which flows into Lough Derg, it is an anci ...

(1997) *A History of

Scariff Scarriff Central Statistics Office, Census 2002Population of Towns ordered by County and size, 1996 and 2002 or Scariff () is a large village in east County Clare, Ireland, situated in the midwest of Ireland. The town is on the West end of Loug ...

and Tuamgraney since earliest times (2000) *History of the O'Maddens of Hy Many (2004) *History of the O'Gradys of Clare and

Limerick Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...

(2007) * Holy Island, Island of the Churches (2008) *Sliabh Aughty Ramble. Musings on the folklore, history, landscape and literature of the Sliabh Aughty region(2010) *The Old Road. The Writings of Nora T. Goonane Leonard 1913-2007.(2011) *Portraits of Mountshannon (2012) * Lough Derg and its Islands with accompanying maps. A voyage of discovery by road and by water(2016) *The Annals of the Poor. Scariff Workhouse Union counties Clare & Galway 1839-1851(2017) *Editor 16 editions of Sliabh Aughty Journal 1991-2016 ISSN 0791-4571 People from County Clare Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Irish writers {{Ireland-writer-stub