50+ Years of West Wicklow Happenings

© The Publishers

Full title: The Kildare Observer, and Eastern Counties’ Advertiser

Creator / Author: The Publisher

Item Type: Newspaper

When Published: 1880-1935

Publisher / Place of Publication: The Proprietor / Kildare Observer Offices, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland.

About: The Kildare Observer newspaper was published from the late 1870’s until its closure in the mid-1930’s when it was supplanted by the ‘Leinster Leader’. Now, courtesy of Kildare Co. Council, Kildare Library & Arts Services, The British Library and the Irish Newspaper Archive it is freely available online. Issues from 1880 to 1935 are searchable and browseable. It is a valuable source for local historians as instanced by the number of search results such as Baltinglass (7107), Blessington (4423), Dunlavin (3519) and Hollywood (2127).

ID number(s): None

WW Connection #1: The masthead of the paper indicates that it was published also at Baltinglass, Blessington & Dunlavin.

Extra #1: Search and access the content of this newspaper here.

Extra #2: The platform hosting the content of this newspaper also includes the content of the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society: 1891-2007

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Hat-Tip: To the organisations and companies who have arranged for the digitisation and availability of this newspaper online.

The Art and the Dance

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Full title: The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergére

Creator / Author: Beth Genné

Item Type / Page count: Book / 139p

When Published: 1996

Publisher / Place of Publication: Society of Dance History Scholars / U.S.A.

About: The ballet ‘Bar aux Folies-Bergére’ took inspiration from and was based around a famous painting of the same name by Édouard Manet. The choreography for the ballet was executed by Ninette de Valois. This book looks at her formative years as a choreographer with specific reference to this ballet. De Valois’s handwritten notebook for the production provides an invaluable insight into her artistic vision and this notebook is reproduced in facsimile with a transcription.

ID number(s): 0965351912

Contents: List of illustrations — “Will be Valuable Someday”: Preface — Acknowlegdements — “Wonder Child” in the School of Hard Knocks: De Valois’s Early Years — “Everything of Value”: De Valois and Diaghilev — “The Future of the Ballet”: De Valois and Modern Choreography — “A Strange, Noble, Unforgettable Figure: De Valois, Yeats, Baylis, and Rambert — Bar aux Folies-Bergére — The Notebook: Introduction, Facsimile and Transcription — Notes — Index.

WW Connection #1: Ninette de Valois (née Edris Stannus) was born at Baltyboys, Blessington, Co. Wicklow in 1898. The family moved to England in 1905.

Extra #1: includes twenty-six black & white photographs

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Extra #3: For information, Ninette de Valois was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1974 for her contribution to European culture.

Extra #4: Browse the 1901 Census entry for Ninette de Valois (née Edris Stannus) in Boystown Lower, Co.Wicklow

Extra #5: Link to the website of the Dance Studies Association (formerly The Society of Dance History Scholars)

History-makers in the Mountains

© Currach Books
(cover Alba Esteban)

Full title (1): The Winter Escape of the Ulster Princes

Full title (2): Vanquished by a New Road

Creator / Author: John G. O’Dwyer

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapters / 12p & 14p

When Published: 2019

Publisher / Place of Publication: Currach Books / 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.

Parent Publication [book]: Wild Stories from the Irish Uplands / by John G. O’Dwyer / 190pp

About: This book recounts escapades, adventures and heroic deeds that have taken place in the hills and mountains of Ireland. Two of the 14 chapters pertain to the Wicklow Mountains. Firstly, the chapter entitled ‘The Winter Escape of the Ulster Princes’ (pp43-54) tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell and Art O’Neill, who having escaped from Dublin Castle in 1592 fled through the Wicklow mountains to try to join up with Fiach MacHugh O’Byrne.

‘Vanquished by a New Road’ is the title of a chapter about Michael Dwyer which gives a brief account of his life. The author goes on to describe the history of the Military Road which was constructed in an effort to curb the activities of rebel forces in the Wicklow mountains,

ID number(s): 9781782189121

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This Nicholas Was No Saint

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Full title: The Archdeacon’s Tale [Book Chapter]

Creator / Author: Margaret Murphy

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 9pp

When Published: 2014

Publisher / Place of Publication: Four Courts Press Ltd. / 7 Malpas Street, Dublin 8.

Parent Publication [book]: Tales of Medieval Dublin / edited by Sparky Booker & Cherie N. Peters / 203pp

About: A short account of Nicholas de Clere, who was Archdeacon of Dublin and Treasurer of Ireland at the end of the thirteenth-century. His life ended in disgrace in 1303. The author also provides an explanation of the role of Archdeacon in the medieval Church.

ID number(s): 9781846824968 / 978-1-84682-497-5 978-1-84682-497-5 978-1-84682-497-5  9781846824975 978-1-84682-497-5

WW Connection #1: The author of this book chapter is a native of Baltinglass.

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