Irish Famine

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 her face to keep the soot drops from it. In Gallows Hill (Castlebar) another poor

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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 of Irish culture and history. I am especially interested in how this heritage has shaped

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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 Roundwood, in fact. D. Oh, very good. Congratulations on the book. Lying in bed last

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