Reporter David Medcalf called to my Greystones home in April ’17. Below is the article which featured in the Wicklow People on April 29th
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Irish Emigrant
April 25th : Last week I mentioned a new book called “The Killing Snows”, by Charles Egan. the book is a historical novel about the events of the Great Famine in County Mayo, during the winter of 1846 to […]
Connaught Telegraph
FAMINE NOVEL LIKENED TO STEINBECK’S GRAPES OF WRATH Another wretched woman died in Staball (Castlebar) last week and, for want of a coffin, she lay on the damp floor of a hut for some days. A plate was laid on […]
Hibernian Digest
I am a first generation Irish American and have since childhood cultivated an avid interest in my heritage. This interest has manifested itself in a variety of ways, including a decades’ long involvement in the AOH and a lifelong study […]
The Irish Post
Sarah Hackett – Bookends – The Irish Post The Killing Snows. Charles Egan Discovered Authors www.discoveredauthors.co.uk 987-1905108084 Charles Egan has personalised one of the most tragic periods of Irish history in an interesting and evocative way in his new book, […]
Interview on Midwest Radio – the Tommy Marren Show
Tommy Marren: In 1990, A Famine Relief Payroll was discovered in a farm building in County Mayo. Now it covered four weeks in November and December in 1846 in the Ox Mountains in east Mayo and it clearly showed the […]