Rathdangan – its Past and its People

© Rathdangan Community Council

Full title: Heather, Hills & Hearths – Rathdangan Ráth Daingin: history & memories

Creator / Author: Rathdangan History Group

Item Type / Page count: Book / 464pp

When Published: 2018

Publisher / Place of Publication: Rathdangan Community Council / Rathdangan, Co. Wicklow

About: This handsome and extensive book on aspects of the history of Rathdangan, its neighbourhood and its people is a labour of love by the local community. Under the umbrella of Rathdangan History Group many individuals came together and have produced a fine example of a local history publication that is rooted in community memory and pride of place. If, as the foreword states, “this book is not intended to be a complete or definitive history”,  then the follow-up is eagerly anticipated.

ID number(s): 9781999324209

Contents: [Chapter I. A Brief Introduction to the archaeology of Rathdangan] Early settlement

[Chapter II. Rathdangan] The Village — Historic Buildings — Rathdangan Today — Carmen — Postal Services

[Chapter III. Townlands Around Rathdangan, Family Names & Features]

[Chapter IV. Organisations] Marian Arts Society — Rathdangan Macra na Feirme — Macra na Tuaithe / Foróige — Irish Dancing in Rathdangan — FÁS & Community Employment Schemes — Golden Circle — Rathdangan Quilters — Rural Transport in Rathdangan — Library Service — Rathdangan Drama — Local Defence Force & Civil Defence

[Chapter V. The Rathdangan GAA Story] The Rathdangan GAA Story — Hugh Byrne — Camogie

[Chapter VI. The Three R’s] Schools in the Rathdangan Area

[Chapter VII. People] A Simple Life (Mike Harmon) — Killamoat and the “Further Outlook” (Eithne Grealy née Cullen) — Journey to Australia, 1952 (Pat Byrne, Ballymaconey) — Kathleen Cullen — Transplant Games (Tony Gartland) — Equestrian (Helen Kearney) — Catherine Byrne — A Perfect Match in More Ways than One (Junior & Teresa Byrne) — Murder in Borklemore — Cathal B. Cullen & Patrick J. (P.J.) Cullen — Mrs. Rose Byrne — Memories of Tourboy (Louisa Hawkins) — George Hawkins

[Chapter VIII. Rathdangan in the News] Rathdangan in The News

[Chapter IX. Farming] Farming — Sheep — Forestry — Big Snows in Rathdangan — Tobacco Growing in Rathdangan Area — Rural Electrification

[Chapter X. Religion] Churches of the Area — Farbreaga Annual Mass — Kiltegan Fathers / St. Patrick’s Missionary Society — Cemeteries — People who Spread Christianity Throughout the World

[Chapter XI. War, Emigration & Politics] Westby’s of High Park — World War I — Seamus O’Toole — Dáil Courts — Wicklow Members of Parliament — The “Feddan Lane Evictions” — Cheese from Canada — Landlords and Townlands — Where did our Emigrants Go? — Fitzwilliam Assisted Passages to Canada — Michael Dwyer — Tithes — The Irish National Land League — The Soldiers’ Home in Danesfort Camp — Hamilton and Hume Families — War of Independence Medals

[Appendix] Bibliography & Other Sources — Population Trends for the Rathdangan Area (1841-1911) — Poems — Old Kiltegan Graveyard — St. Peter’s Kiltegan — Burial Records for Cranareen Cemetery (1903-2017) — List of Headstones and Markers in Cranareen — Early Rathcoyle School Register (Girls) — Early Rathcoyle School Register (Boys)

Extra #1: Illustrated throughout with photographs, news cuttings and maps

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“Who Were You Named After”? Questions from Stratford-on-Slaney N.S.

© The Publisher

Full title: Millennium Memoirs: Stratford-on-Slaney National School

Creator / Author: Stratford-on-Slaney National School

Item Type / Page count: Book / 75p

When Published: 2000

Publisher / Place of Publication: Stratford-on-Slaney National School / [Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow]

About: An A4 publication to mark the 2000 Millennium. With the aim of creating links between the generations, the schoolchildren were tasked with setting and asking questions of their parents, grandparents, other relations or family friends. The short interviews provide a snapshot of life as it was lived in much earlier years and are a nice little slice of social history. The project received funding from the Katharine Howard Foundation and Wicklow County Council (Arts Section).

ID number(s): None

Contents: The Old Schoolhouse which closed in 1909 [photograph] — Some history on Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow — School Days in Stratford-on-Slaney / Eilis McDonald.

[The Interviews] Anthony Graham (former school principal) by Karen Mangan & Karen Byrne — Jimmy Moore by Leanne Moore — Mary McCabe by Tadhg McCabe — Eileen Butterfield by Orla Kelly — Catherine McGrath by P. J. McGrath — Maureen O’Keeffe by Paul Dwyer —  Mary O’Neill by Tommy O’Neill — Paddy Keane by Owen Healy — Molly Healy by Vicky Dowling — Granny Keane by Katie Dillon Keane — Colette McGrath by Sean McGrath — Mary McCabe by Conor McCabe — Lily Dowling by Michael Dowling — Elizabeth Heaney by Lisa Kelly — Granddad by Aaron Coogan — Ita Doyle by Colm Healy — Dick Whittle by Amy Whittle — Catherine Heffernan by Mark Lyons  — Jack Egan by Oisin Egan — Mary O’Rourke by Niamh O’Rourke — Helen Donegan O’Keeffe by Nathan Whittle — Barbara Hanbidge by Natalie Maher Hanbidge  — Catherine Keogh by Michael Moore — Michael Price by Michael Mangan — Seamus Slater by Oisin Walsh — Anne Flynn by Michael Coogan — Nancy Leahy by Siobhan Poll — Paddy Rooney by Shane Humphreys — Hilary Semple by Shane Byrne — Norah Murdoch by Sarah Murdoch — James Hyland by Sean Kelly — Lucy Tuohy by Róisín Mangan — Mary Doyle Byrne by Faith Doyle — Bridie Dwyer by Emma Dwyer —  Bridie Dwyer by Sarah Dwyer — Pat Keogh by Pamela Barrett — Francis Wynne by Emma Hanbidge — Mary O’Neill by Kelly O’Neill — Susan Byrne by Elaine Byrne — Teresa O’Keeffe by Sinéad Tallon — Annie Doyle by Shane Doyle — Kathleen Byrne by Sean Fagan — Annie Doyle by Michelle Doyle — Mick Healy by Gary Dowling — Florance McCormack by Kirsten McCormack — Annie Doyle by Damien Doyle — Great Granny Redmond by Ciaran O’Brien — Elizabeth Heaney by Fay-Louise Kelly — Jack Byrne by Cian Bollard — Linda Claxton by Darina Hanbidge Carroll — Paddy Keane by Manus Keane — Catherine Moore by Lisa Allen — Chris Staunton by Killian Keane — Sean Leahy by Kieran Poll — Nancy Price by Karen Mangan — Mary Moore by Laura Leonard — Jane Egan by Cormac Egan — John Staunton by Kelly Keane — Mary Dolan Keogh by Thomas Whittle — Margaret Kenny by Karen Byrne — Annie Osborne by John Osborne — Jean Jardine by Kevin Bracken — Claire Moore by Georgina Allen — Peter Kelly by Eoin Kelly — Mary Moore by Danielle Moore — Maureen O’Keeffe by William Dwyer — Aileen Donaghy by Daniel Murdoch — Lily Rooney by Connor Humphreys — Ellen Doran by Gemma Roche — Isabel Finnigan by David Bracken — Kathleen Maguire by Conor O’Rourke.

Extra #1: Illustrated with black & white photographs on each page.

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