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Finding Roots All Around the Glen of Imaal

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Full title: Who Was Granny? : a family history

Creator / Author: Maura Murphy Gibson

Item Type / Page count: Book / 320pp

When Published: 2019

Publisher / Place of Publication: Kate Rose Publishing / 30 Woodlands, Maynooth, Co. Kildare

About: In this substantial and well-illustrated A4-sized publication, Dublin-born author, Maura Murphy Gibson, sets out to trace her family history. The story pivots on the elopement and 1895 marriage of her Protestant grandmother and her Catholic grandfather. The author looks in detail at the roots of both grandparents and at subsequent historical events. Her journey takes her to a wide area of West Wicklow and into Wexford including places such as Glen of Imaal, Rathdangan, Carnew and Aughrim. Irish historical events also feature such as when an uncle was killed in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, 21st November, 1920. A further personal touch is added as the author contributes several original poems relevant to the text.

ID number(s): 978527233690

Contents: Acknowledgement — Foreword — Introduction — Mick and Kate – Elopement (poem) — Married Life — Uncle Joseph — Bloody Sunday (poem) — Cappagh Hill (poem) / Lilly Traynor — The Ballymount Murphys – Kate (poem) — Starting School — High Nelly (poem) — Coalman Wade (poem) — The Bibby and Johnny’s Night-out — Clondalkin (poem) — The Links (poem) — Aunt Ciss — Cousin (poem) — The Sewing Machine (poem) — Haves and Have-nots – The Iveagh Market (poem) — The Pigs and Chickens — Cottage Dwellers (poem) — 1954/55 — Travelling People (poem) — The Carpenter Murphys — When Cousins Connect — Eviction (poem) — Yeomen Farmers, Irish Rebellion 1798 — Croppy Biddy — Finlay/Eager/Hinch Connections — From France to Aughrim — Henry and Kate’s Sons — Byrne/Traynor Connection — Drimnagh Castle, Dublin — Bluebell Babies (poem) — Sources —Endnotes.

Extra #1: Includes over two hundred photographs, plus family charts and other illustrations.

Extra #2: Search Libraries Ireland for this publication.

Extra #3: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide.

Extra #4: Link to the Author’s Website

Aspects of 1950’s Ireland

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Full title: Love Among the Irish

Creator / Author: Seán O’ Faoláin

Item Type / Page count: Journal Article / 17p (inter-alia)

Journal Information: Life Magazine, 16 March, 1953, pp141-157

When Published: 1953

Publisher / Place of Publication: Time Inc. / Chicago, Illinois, USA

About: This article is subtitled ‘ A Catholic blames celibacy and censorship for fostering racial decay in his country’. In it, the well-known writer, Seán O’ Faolain, looks at social life in Ireland of the early 1950’s and the difficulties faced by the younger generation in meeting, marrying and settling down.

ID number(s): 0024-3019

WW Connection #1: The article uses some family situations from the Baltinglass area as indicative of the difficulties facing young people.

Extra #1: includes photographs.

Extra #2: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide.

Extra #3: Read the article online via Google Books

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