Some Missionary Experiences

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Full title: A Road Less Travelled: tales of the Irish Missionaries

Creator / Author: Aiden Clerkin & Brendan Clerkin (editors)

Item Type / Page count: Book / 256p

When Published: 2011

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

About: A book which looks at the missionary experience of Irish religious abroad. Part One provides a general background to the Irish missions, while Part Two contains short personal accounts and observations from individual missionary priests and nuns. Many of the priests belong(ed) to St. Patrick’s Missionary Society in Kiltegan and two contributors are sibling nuns from Killabeg in South west Wicklow.

ID number(s): 9781846823176

Chapters: Foreword / Mary McAleese — Acknowledgements — [PART ONE: THE IRISH MISSIONARY TRADITION] A Road Less Travelled / Aiden and Brendan Clerkin — The Modern Irish Missionary Story / Dr. Edward Hogan — The Legacy of Modern Irish Missionaries / Fr. Donal Dorr — Introductions / Tom Arnold (Concern) — John O’Shea (GOAL) — Rev. Dr. Seán Healy (Social Justice Ireland) — Justin Kilcullen (Trócaire) — Cardinal Seán Brady (Roman Catholic Church) — Archbishop Alan Harper (Church of Ireland) — Denis O’Brien (Iris O’Brien Foundation) — Map — [PART TWO: TALES OF THE IRISH MISSIONARIES – selected entries only] ‘It was all Swahili to me’ (based on extracts from my diary / Fr. Brian Treacy — First love in the Turkana Desert / Fr. Brendan Payne — First impressions, 1958 / Fr. Denis O’Neill — Lend a helping hand / Kathleen Byrne (Sr. Patricia) — What’s the EFIK for tone deaf? / Fr. Pádraig Ó Máille — Scrambled eggs on Christmas Day in Kenya / Fr. P.J. McCamphill — The amazing matatu – what a way to travel! / Fr. Ted Smith — Passing on the flame: the Singapore experience /  Emily Byrne (Sr. Gabriel) — My diary from the time Fr. Gerry Roche was murdered / Fr. Brian Treacy — Living through a crisis – my diary from the Kenyan election in 2007 / Fr. Brian Treacy — The call of duty: a day in the life of ‘Onilu’ / Fr. Denis O’Neill — Significant people / Fr. Richard Griffin — Appendix I: Glossary of Terms — Appendix II: The Irish Missionary Union Survey.

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Fifteenth Baltinglass Parish Review

Cover photo: Nigel Gillis

Full title: The Review 2018: a year in the life of Baltinglass, Bigstone, Grangecon and Stratford.

Creator / Author: Compiled by the Communications Sub-Group of St. Joseph’s Parish Pastoral Council, Editorial Board: Mary Hanlon, Bernie Doogue, Renee Wall…et al.

Item Type / Page count: Booklet / 102pp

When Published: 2018

Publisher / Place of Publication: St. Joseph’s Parish Baltinglass / Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow.

About: This is the fifteenth issue of an annual publication. Within its A4-sized format, it chronicles activities in the parish during the year, publishes short articles of general or historical interest and includes photographs past and present. Contemporary advertisements help to provide a snapshot of local economic activity.

ID number(s): None

Contents: A Word from the Parish Priest / Fr. Gerard Ahern PP — From the Editor / Mary Hanlon — Balto Kayak Club — A Smashing Year – Baltinglass Badminton Club — Eoghan Cooney achieves first Irish International Cap — Parish Fun Day 2018 — Tearmann Community Gardens — Darkness Into Light — Bigstone National School — Celebrating the Home of the Horse – Grangecon — My time in An Garda Síochána 1982-2018 / Liam Horgan — When Eurovision Came to Baltinglass / Pauline Hayes — Stratford On Slaney Harvest Mass with Blessing of the Animals / Marie Halstead — Pattersons Celebrating 75 years in business — Memories of our Primary School Days — Stratford Grangecon GAA — Special Olympics — Stratford Social Scene — 50th Wedding Anniversaries — A Little Bit of Balto and Wicklow in Nottingham on the 17th March 2018 / Kieran Fitzgerald — Grangecon News — 100 Years of Progress / Gerorda Stamps — Curious by Nature Preschool — Newtown Saunders Ltd. — Men’s Shed — St. Mary’s Parish — Community of Brendan the Navigator — Photo Gallery — Baltinglass Youth Club — Joy [poem / Anon] — Molly Scott — Cozy Corner Crafters — Weddings Photo Gallery — Baltinglass Community Action Group — Baltinglass GAA Club — Greetings — A Reflection [poem] / Mary Ryder — Rosie’s Story / Rosie Shortall — Stratford Lodge National School — Community Support Worker Programme / Pauline Hayes — Scoil Chonglais Make Rugby History — Julia O’Neill — The Heron [poem] / E. Thompson — Stratford National School / Mary O’Keeffe — Our Trip to see Pope Francis / Caitlin Seitz and Alannah Seitz — The Papal Visit to Knock, Co. Mayo / B. D. — In Memory of Mr. Frank P. Hunt, N. T., Chapel Hill, Baltinglass — West Wicklow Classic & Vintage Vehicle Club — Grangecon National School — The Battle of Baltinglass [ballad] / Sylvester Gaffney — 60th Wedding Anniversary — Dancing with the Stars in Baltinglass Hospital — The Great War 1914-1918 / Tommy Doyle — If its Not blue it Won’t Do — Goherty School of Irish Dancing 2018: Cairde Damhsa — Drogheda Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2018 — Deaths in Baltinglass Parish — Clare O’Neill Retirement / Clare O’Neill — Art Competition Winners – Back Cover First Holy Communion & Confirmation [Photo Gallery].

Extra #1: Contains two full pages of photographs, not counting pictures included in individual articles.

Jimi’s Genius Loci

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Full title: A beautiful obsession: Jimi Blake’s world of plants at Hunting Brook Gardens

Creator / Author: Jimi Blake and Noel Kingsbury

Item Type / Page count: Book / 224pp

When Published: 2019

Publisher / Place of Publication: Filbert Press / Bath, United Kingdom

About: A handsome full-colour hardbacked book which tells the story of Jimi Blake and his famous gardens at Hunting Brook, Lamb Hill, Blessington in West Wicklow. Apart from a tour of the gardens there is valuable additional information about plants and planting schemes. This is a book that will inspire a visit to the gardens or be a keepsake for those who have already done so.

ID number(s): 9781999734527

Contents: Foreword / Fergus Garrett — [Part 1 Early Beginnings] Welcome to Hunting Brook — A Beautiful Obsession — [Part 2 A Walk Around The Garden] First Impressions — Ashley’s Garden — Fred’s Garden — The House and the Woodland Garden — The Valley and Meadow — [Part 3 Plants And Planting] Practical Work – Jimi’s Plant Directory — Nurseries & Gardens — Index — Acknowledgements — About the Authors.

Extra #1: Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.

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