First published in 1926, most of these proverbs were first heard by the Author in West Kerry, but could be found in any Gaeltacht in Munster . This book of Proverbs...
Memories, adventures and short stories of Belfast parish life. The author was born in Wallasey, England in 1930. He received his education from his Christian Brothers on Falls Road. Former...
On the morning of the 1920 GAA Great Challenge Match, the IRA shot dead a team of British officers in Dublin. Convinced the killers were in the Croke Park crowd,...
In 1935, a Gaeltacht colony was created in the townland of Rath Cairn, Co. Meath, for 27 Irish-speaking families. Fianna Fail had achieved an overall majority in the wake...
The remarkable story of William and James Roantree from Leixlip, Co. Kildare William Francis Roantree famously shook his fist at the British Empire when he made his way, aged 87,...
The ten years between 1913 and 1923 were eventful and changing times for the people of Galway, both in the city and county. The political, economic and social life of...
From 1912 onwards Ireland saw reaction, war, insurrection, war of independence, and civil war. This book is a discussion about the period a century later.
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Placenames are an incomparable and irreplaceable part of our heritage on account of the light they throw on the shape of the landscape and the history of human occupation. This...
Editor - AJ Hughes Patsy Dan Rodgers (or Peatsaí Dan Mac Ruairí in Gaelic) was born at Westland Row in Dublin in 1944. At the age of four, he was adopted...
