Gerry was One-in-a-Hundred

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Full title: The Life of O’Reilly. Gerry O’Reilly 1949-1962

Creator / Author: John Scally

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 2pp

When Published: 2017

Publisher / Place of Publication: Black & White Publishing Ltd. / Nautical House, 104 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6NF

Parent Publication [book]: The GAA Immortals: 100 Gaelic Games Legends / by John Scally / 377pp

About: This book celebrates the achievements of 100 legends of Gaelic Games. The only Wicklow person to be chosen as a member of this select group is Gerry O’Reilly of Donard, who is generally acknowledged to have been one of the greatest wing backs of them all. In 1984, Gerry was included on the Team of the Century of players never to have won a Senior All-Ireland in Football. Gerry O’Reilly died in 2016.

ID number(s): 9781785301339

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Two West Wicklow Footballing Giants

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Full title (1): Kevin O’Brien

Full title (2): Gerry O’Reilly

Creator / Author: Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin (1923-2013)

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapters / 5p & 5p

When Published: 2007 / 2008

Publisher / Place of Publication: Gill & Macmillan / Hume Avenue, Park West, Dublin 12.

Parent Publication [book]: Giants of Gaelic Football / by Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin / 233pp

About: This book, written by former RTE broadcaster Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, recounts the careers of the greatest Gaelic footballers. In the pantheon the author includes two West Wicklow players – Kevin O’Brien of Baltinglass and Gerry O’Reilly of Donard. The story of each is told in two separate five-page chapters.

ID number(s): 9780717145478 / 9780717141128

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Extra #3: Includes a photograph of each player.

Picking Fruit in the Garden of Ireland

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Full title: Fraughan Picking in West Wicklow

Creator / Author: Michael J. Conry

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 3p

When Published: 2011

Publisher / Place of Publication: The Author / Chapelstown, Carlow.

Parent Publication [book]: Picking Bilberries, Fraocháns and Whorts in Ireland – the human story / by Michael J. Conry / 375pp

About: This short chapter gives an account of fraughan picking in the Hollywood area, especially in the Glenbride Valley in the early decades of the twentieth-century. It was one of the few areas in West Wicklow that was a good source of fraughans. A driving force behind the activity was local curate and eccentric, Fr. Patrick Kavanagh. As with the book as a whole, this chapter accentuates the human interest dimension.

ID number(s): 9780953587650 / 0953587657

Extra #1: includes map and three photographs

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A Bishop’s Time in Dunlavin

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Full title: The Garden of Ireland

Creator / Author: Rt. Rev. R.A. Warke

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 17pp

When Published: 1993

Publisher / Place of Publication: Mercier Press Ltd. / P.O. Box 5, 5 French Church Street, Cork

Parent Publication [book]: Ripples in the Pool / by Rt. Rev. R.A. Warke / 164pp

About: This book overall gives a personal sketch of a life of ministering in the Church of Ireland. This particular chapter recounts the experience of Rev. Roy Warke as he embarked on his first rectorship in the parish of Dunlavin with Hollywood Union. He took warm memories with him from his time in West Wicklow and he went on to become the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Bishop Warke passed away this week.

ID number(s): 1856350649

WW Connection #1: Rt. Rev. R.A. Warke was Rector in Dunlavin from 1964-1967

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The Young Man and the Sea

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Full title: Close to The Water’s Edge [a short story]

Creator / Author: Claire Keegan

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / Short Story / 7p

When Published: 2010

Publisher / Place of Publication: Phoenix / Orion House, 5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane, London WC2H 9EA United Kingdom.

Parent Publication [book]: Phoenix Irish Short Stories 2003 / edited by David Marcus / 213pp

About: The book which includes this short story, is an anthology of Irish short stories published annually. It features both new and established writers. Prior to its appearance in this book, this work by Claire Keegan had only previously appeared in the US edition of the author’s short story collection ‘Antartica’.

ID number(s):  0753817179

WW Connection #1: The author was born and raised in the border area of Wicklow, Carlow and Wexford.

Extra #1: Opening line:”Tonight he is out on the balcony, his dark tan stunning against the white of his dress shirt.”

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History-makers in the Mountains

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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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The Famine in Talbotstown Upper

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Full title: Responses to Famine in West Wicklow

Creator / Author: Séamas Ó Maitiú

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 9pp

When Published: c.1995

Publisher / Place of Publication: Kildare County Council / Naas, Co. Kildare

Parent Publication [book]: Lest We Forget: Kildare and the Great Famine / 106pp

About: This essay was published as part of a book commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the Great Famine in County Kildare. It looks at the adjoining district of West Wicklow and uses contemporary accounts from the journal of Elizabeth Smith to show in particular how local officialdom responded to the crisis.

ID number(s): 0952001322

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Extra #3: Link to the full text of the book containing this chapter, courtesy of the Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal.

Extra #4: Link to a portrait of the author via https://portraidi.ie/ga/seamas-o-maitiu/

Hat-Tip: To the Kildare Library and Arts Services who have arranged for the digitisation of this book and its free accessibility online.

Crannogs and Their Uses up to 1650

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Full title: Crannogs in Late Medieval Gaelic Ireland, c.1350-c.1650

Creator / Author: Aidan O’Sullivan

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 21p

When Published: 2001 (hardback); 2004 (paperback)

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

Parent Publication [book]: Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650: land, lordship and settlement / edited by Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards and Elizabeth FitzPatrick / 454pp

About: Crannogs were artificial islands built in lakes or swamps. In this chapter (pp397-417), the author argues that up to now attention has been paid only to their early origin and use. He discusses the range of materials and artifacts found in crannogs and makes use of historical evidence to suggest that they continued to have various functions right up the middle of the seventeenth century.

ID number(s): 1851828001 / 1851828664

Contents: Origins, construction and occupation – Late medieval re-occupation – Crannogs as Gaelic settlements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries – Crannogs as Gaelic settlements in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: the end of the tradition – Crannogs as refuges for the Gaelic Irish in the seventeenth century: the final years – Conclusion.

WW Connection #1: Author Aidan O’Sullivan is a native of Valleymount in West Wicklow.

Extra #1: includes maps, a photograph and other illustrations.

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Ten of the Best from Caitlín Maude

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Full title: The Bright Wave / An Tonn Gheal: poetry in Irish now

Creator / Author: Dermot Bolger (editor) and contributors. Introduction by Alan Titley.

Item Type / Page count: Book / 200p

When Published: 1986

Publisher / Place of Publication: Raven Arts Press / P.O. Box 1430, Finglas Dublin 11.

About: This book is an anthology of modern Irish-language poetry from six poets who all emerged in the second half of the 20^th century. Each poem is printed in Irish with an English translation opposite. The poets represented are: Michael Davitt, Caitlín Maude, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Micheál Ó hAirtnéide, Liam Ó Muirthile and Cathal Ó Searcaigh. The section that interests us is that devoted to 10 poems by Caitlín Maude each of which has been translated into English by Michael Hartnett (Micheál Ó hAirtnéide). Overall the book is an excellent introduction to modern poetry in Irish for people who are not that well versed in the Irish language.

ID number(s): 1851860088 / 1851860118

Contents: [Caitlín Maude poems only] Tá sé in am an dán deiridh a scriobh / It’s time to write the final poem – Géibheann / Captivity – Litir ón Aire Cultúir / Letter from the Minister of Culture – Comhairle / Advice – Lá amháin / One day — D’fhan muid ar feadh an lae / We stayed all day — Amhrán Grá Vietnam / Love song for Vietnam – Impí / Entreaty – Iobairt / Sacrifice – Rhoda / Rhoda.

WW Connection #1: Caitlín Maude spent some time as a teacher in Carnew in South West Wicklow.

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