Chasing Shadows in the Hills

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Full title: Michael Dwyer – The Great Elusive Rebel

Creator / Author: Kevin P. Oldham

Item Type / Page count: Magazine Article / 3pp

Journal Information: Ireland’s Eye Christmas Annual, Issue 276, pp. 48-50

When Published: December 2003

Publisher / Place of Publication: Ireland’s Eye / 6 Dominick Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

About: A short three-page article which summaries the exploits of Michael Dwyer and the attempts by the authorities to bring him to account. The article includes references to some of his companions and to his wife, Mary Doyle.

ID number(s): 0790-3766

Extra #1: Includes two black & white photographs one of which of Dwyer’s Cottage at Derrynamuck

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Principals of Protestant Irish Language Teaching

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Full Title: A Gaelic experiment: the preparatory system 1926-1961 and Coláiste Moibhí

Creator / Author: Valerie Jones (foreword by Susan Parkes)

Item Type / Page count: Book / 319p

When Published: 2006

Publisher / Place of Publication: The Woodfield Press / 17 Jamestown Square, Dublin 8

About: This book provides a history of the preparatory system for student teachers between the years 1926-1961. Prospective students were taught through the Irish Language at seven residential colleges and the Government hoped that this would ensure that the Irish Language became embedded in the schools where these teachers would subsequently work. Approximately one-third of the book is given over to a case study of Coláiste Moibhí, the Protestant college. During the period 1952-1995, the principalship of this college was held by educators from West Wicklow.

ID number(s): 9781905094011

Contents: [PART I] The origins of the gaelicisation policy: 1800-1926 – Greening the public service while getting the colleges up and running: 1926-32 – Failure to get the numbers right leads to closure of Coláiste Chaoimhín: 1932-39 – Surviving with the help of Derrig: 1939-48 – A period of stagnation ending in swift demise: 1948-61 – The preparatory system-success or failure?

[PART II Coláiste Moibhí] – Getting the college off the ground. The first principal: Irish Language enthusiast George Ruth 1927-28 – Making the college ‘a marked success’. The second principal: school inspector John Kyle 1928-34 – Dogged by upheavals. The third principal: Gaelic scholar Lil Duncan 1935-51 – Living with uncertainty. The fourth principal: former student Gladys Allen 1952-84 – The final years. The fifth principal: dedicated Gaeilgeoir Risteárd Giltrap 1984-95.

[PART III Postscript] Irish today-a living language – Appendix: select biographies – Plates – Select bibliography – Index.

WW Connection #1: Principal Gladys Allen (1918-96) was a native of Donaghmore.

WW Connection #2: Principal Risteárd Giltrap hails from Glashina, near Blessington.

Extra #1: Includes seven full pages of black & white photographs plus pictures interspersed with text.

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Extra #4: Link to a brief biographical essay on Gladys Allen via ainm.ie.

Thirty-Four Locations Loaded With History

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Full title: County Wicklow Archaeological Notes Around Kiltegan

Creator / Author: C. Drury

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 7p

Journal Information: Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. IV (Number 5), pp. 352-358

When Published: January 1905

Publisher / Place of Publication: E. Ponsonby, Dublin for County Kildare Archaeological Society / Co. Kildare

About: This piece, accompanied by a numbered map, amounts to a gazetteer of archaeological features, placenames and folklore in West Wicklow. Each short entry corresponds to a number (1-34) on the map. The article title is misleading as the area covered ranges as far north as Dunlavin and Donard and includes areas down to Kiltegan and Rathdangan.

ID number(s): 0332-0782

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Extra #3: Visit the County Kildare Archaeology Society website.

Extra #4: Search and access the content of Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society free of charge, courtesy of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Kildare Library Services.

Extra #5: Browse the 1901 Census entry for the author of this article.

Extra #6: Browse the 1911 Census entry for the author of this article.

A Shining Example of Social Inclusion

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Full title: “An extraordinary voluntary commitment”: 25 years of KARE

Creator / Author: Vicki Weller

Item Type / Page count: Book / 70p

When Published: ca.1993

Publisher / Place of Publication: [KARE?] / [Newbridge, Co. Kildare?]

About: KARE was founded in 1967 by parents and friends of children with an intellectual disability. The organisation celebrated 25 years in operation in 1992 and this book was produced to mark the occasion. KARE Services are now provided not just in Kildare, but in East Offaly and West Wicklow as well.

ID number(s): None

Contents: Introduction — Starting Out — A Learning Process — Working it Out – Moving On — All together — A Sporting Chance — The House that KARE Built – On a Voluntary Basis – A Going Concern — For Future Reference — KARE Chairmen — KARE Services.

WW Connection #1: KARE operates service centres in Baltinglass, Blessington and Tinahely in West Wicklow.

Extra #1: Includes thirty-two pages of black & white photographs.

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Extra #4: Link to the KARE website