Reporter David Medcalf called to my Greystones home in April ’17. Below is the article which featured in the Wicklow People on April 29th Charles’s literary reminder of Famine heritage Charles Egan is back in County Wicklow and living in Greystones at the age of 64, along with his wife Carmel. The author, businessman and […]
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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 her face to keep the soot drops from it. In Gallows Hill (Castlebar) another poor
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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 of Irish culture and history. I am especially interested in how this heritage has shaped
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, which was launched this month in London. Whilst ultimately a fictional account, it is based
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 evidence of the reduction in wages, week after week. Most horrific of all I suppose
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