New works by Kevin Crangle, Brendan McCarthy, Martin Quinn, Thomas Carroll, Rod Smith and more
A fascination with the stories of hundreds of past lives inspired Kevin Crangle to delve into the archives from two parishes to produce. Up to 600 people from this historic part of south Down are featured in his comprehensive survey, based on years of local history research.
Several decades before the Irish Folklore Commission was established in 1935, Fr. Ferris collected a vast trove of family genealogy, heritage and culture from parishioners at Station Masses. Along with helpers, he used a questionnaire that he had devised, later recording the material in manuscripts at home in the evenings. He also noted information on schools, place names, archaeology, the dinnseanchas, and Irish language, as well as details of local poets, musicians and writers. However, Fr.
A foreword is contributed by Dr Martin Mansergh, former TD for Tipperary South and Minister of State at the Department of Finance, and for the Arts. His father, Prof Philip Mansergh was an author, historian of Ireland and the British Commonwealth, and merits an entry in the book.by Thomas Carroll . Three centuries of the life and times of the O’Dea family, who farmed in Laois since the 18th century, are traced.
The book presents not just a family chronicle but explores themes of power and adaption and is a microcosm of Irish history. It reveals a world of diplomats and landlords, artists, autocrats, and a reformed Nazi sympathiser, as well as the lives of the countesses and the women who played crucial roles in the shaping of the family’s destiny. It is enhanced with portraits, drawings, sepia images and Clancarty memorabilia alongside a variety of photographs from locations in and around Ballinasloe.
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