Reporter David Medcalf called to my Greystones home in April ’17. Below is the article which featured in the Wicklow People on April 29th
Irish Famine
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 […]
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 […]
Interview on East Coast FM
Declan Meehan. Hello, how are you. Charles Egan. Good morning Declan, how are you. Not bad? D. What’s with the Wicklow connection? C. Well, it goes back many years both in Newcastle and Roundwood. We still have a house in […]