Full title: Every Leader’s Reality Guide: strategies to release your true leadership potential
Creator / Author: Michael Moriarty
Item Type / Page count: Book / 167p
When Published: 2019
Publisher / Place of Publication: Hillglens Publishing / [Place not stated]
About: The author has had extensive high-level experience in the areas of education, training and broadcasting. This book distills his life-long experience and presents it in the form of advice and strategies that will contribute to leadership success. The book comes highly recommended by prominent leaders from the public and private sector.
ID number(s): 9781916182509
Contents: About the Author – Foreword – Preface – Introduction — Take Charge of Yourself — You Are Who You Think You Are — Leadership Skills – Nature or Nurture? – Personal Values and Vision Make for a Good Leader — Envisioning a Shared Future with Common Values — Building Yout High-Performance Team — Behaviour and Conflict Management — Are You a Leader or a Manager? – Leaders Need Followers and Followers Need Leaders – Leaders Plan to Accomplish – Optimism and Self-Belief go Hand in Hand – Successful Leaders are Change Agents – Relationships for Success – Leaders Stand Apart with Image and Branding – Ethical Leaders Make for Great Leaders – Resilience for Sustainable Leadership – Power to Use or Abuse – Leaders for the Future — Belief Comes Before Performance — Appendix 1: Leadership Styles – Appendix 2: Leadership Tweets by the Author – Appendix 3: References – Appendix 4: Acknowledgements – Index.
WW Connection #1: The author is a native of Tynock, Kiltegan on the Carlow-West Wicklow border
Creator / Author: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin, ar n-a gcur in eagar ag Risteárd Ó Foghludha (“Fiaċra Éilgeaċ”)
Item Type / Page count: Book / 169pp
When Published: 1946
Publisher / Place of Publication: Oifig an tSoláthair / Dublin
About: “Dhá Chích Dhanann” was one of the pen-names used by Jeremiah Moynihan (Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin). He lived from 1866 to 1934 and served in the Royal Irish Constabularly between 1890 and 1920. He was born in the parish of Ballyvourney in Cork into a family of well-known Irish poets. He retained this interest throughout his life and published pieces in various Irish-language publications. This book is a selection of his poetry and ballads and also contains a 12-page introductory essay and full-page photograph. The subject matter of his verse is Ireland, Irish history and culture, Irish patriots and Irish places including some West Wicklow locations. After retiring he continued his love of Irish culture by teaching classes in the West Dublin area. He is buried in Baltinglass Cemetery.
ID number(s): None
Contents: Réamhrádh — Bith-scéal an fhile 1866-1934 — A Éire, mo thír bhocht go hEág! — An áit is cuibhe — Tír bheag na Banban — Oileáinín na féile — Clanna Mumhan — Síothcháin — A Bhanba, dúisigh — Seo díl-chlann na séimh-fhear — Sruthán sléibhe — A Ghaedhala na cruinne — An Ghaedhilg in san ollscoil nua — Filleadh an deoraidhe — Tá mo chroidhe go dubhach — Feall Dhún Laimhin in “Ocht gcéad déag ach do” — I gCríochaibh Naomh-Mhantán — Aililiú! mo bhrónsa — Máire — Ag teacht abhaile ón aonach dom — An Ghlé-bhruinneal chóir — Cois na leamhna — Ag taisteal trasna Glinn Dom — Ó mhuise, a leinbh — An Fánaidhe — An tSealg san, “COMPULSION” — “WENTWORTH HOUSE” — A nDubhairt “WEST BRITONISM” — An rinnceóir taistil — Is suairceas ‘s is aiteas — Don Athair Peadar Ó Laoghaire — Druid liom, a leinbh — Do Chonchubhar Ó Muimhneacháin — An nóinín bán — Guidhe um pósadh — Guidhe do charaid — Guidhe do lánamhain — Guidhe do shagart — Freagra ar chuireadh: ó Thorna is ó Cháit, a dheirbhshiúr — Cead do Thorna chun dhá amhrán dá chuid do chlóbhualadh — Dán buidheachais ag admhughadh duaise ar Oireachtas 1907 — Le fáinne geal an lae — Crúdh na ngabhar tar laoi — Caoineadh na nDíleacht — Filleadh an Chraoibhín — Ár Mairbh (ar bás an Athar Eóghan Ó Gramhnaigh is Liam Ó Maol Ruanaidh) — An fear fáin — Aisling ar bháthadh Eibhlín Nic Niocaill — Gura fada é cródha — Dobrón bhainmhéara Chorcaighe .1. Bhean Thoirdhealbhaigh Mhic Suibhne (dá fear agus é i gcarcair Bhrixton — Éagcaoineadh Chathail Bhrugha-Aisling — Fáilte bhrónach (ar n-a thabhairt thar ais go hÉire do chorp an Athar Eóghan Ó Gramhnaigh do cailleadh in Aimeirice) — Do mhac giolla Brighde — An crann cárthainn — Corran Tuathail — Poll a’ Phúca — Cill Áirne — Ár mairbh tréigthe — Cómhrac abhann (tionntódh) — Mo mhaidirín “Trae” (tionntódh ar “My poor dog Tray”) — Tionntódh ar uathrádh Alastair Sailciorc ar an oileán San Juan Fernandez, ag cúpaeir — Gluais, notaí etc — Clár na línte tosaigh.
WW Connection #1: Jeremiah Moynihan served as an RIC constable and later as a sergeant in Baltinglass.
WW Connection #2: Jeremiah Moynihan served as an RIC head constable in Kiltegan.
WW Connection #3: Jeremiah Moynihan served as an RIC sergeant in Blessington
WW Connection #4: On retirement in 1920, Jeremiah Moynihan took on a small farm in Manor Kilbride.
Extra #1: Browse the 1901 Census entry for Moynihan Family in Baltinglass.
Extra #2: Browse the 1911 Census entry for Moynihan Family in Baltinglass.
Full title: What it said in the papers: the execution of Kevin Barry
Creator / Author: Michael Moriarty
Item Type / Page count: Book / 78p
When Published: 2020
Publisher / Place of Publication: Hillglens Publishing / [Place not stated]
About: The author of this little book found a bundle of old newspapers in his late mother’s attic. They all related to the last days and execution of her relation, Kevin Barry, in 1920. To co-incide with the centenary of Kevin Barry’s death, the author has now transcribed and published these “detailed and emotionally-charged reports from contemporary newspapers”.
ID number(s): 9781916182516
Contents: Introduction – Kevin Gerard Barry (1902-1920) Tombeagh, County Carlow and 8 Fleet Street, Dublin – Evening Herald 20 October 1920 – Irish Independent 29 October 1920 — Evening Telegraph Saturday 30 October 1920 — Irish Independent Monday 1 November 1920 — Irish Independent Tuesday 2 November 1920 – The Freeman’s Journal Tuesday 2 November 1920 — The Weekly Freeman 6 November 1920 — Expressions of Sympathy — The Freeman’s Journal Friday 5 November 1920 — Irish Independent Monday 8 November 1920 – Evening Herald Monday 8 November 1920 – Nationalist and Leinster Times Saturday 6 November 1920 – Epilogue – Appendix 1: Kevin Barry Song Lyrics – Appendix 2: 1920 Newspaper Scan – Appendix 3: Newspapers re-discovered by author.
WW Connection #1: The author is a native of Tynock, Kiltegan on the Carlow-West Wicklow border
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.
Creator / Author: [Students of St. Patrick’s Missionary Society Kiltegan]
Item Type / Page count: Magazine / Various pagings
When Published: ca. 1950 – ????
Publisher / Place of Publication: Students of St. Patrick’s Missionary Society / Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow.
About: This magazine was published for private circulation by the Students of St. Patrick’s Missionary Society in Kiltegan. Based on this one sample issue (Spring 1962), the magazine included such topics as short stories, life in the college, sporting activities in the college, religion, philosophy, history and a variety of miscellaneous subjects no doubt influenced by the diverse geographical origins of the students themselves. It is not certain if the magazine continues to be produced.
ID number(s): None
Contents: [Spring 1962 issue] Editorial – Letter to the Missions / D.Connolly — Gortbeg / Eugene O’Reilly — Dilemma Solved / Paul Hardy — The Passive Mood / Anthony Sheerin — The Busy Bee has no Time for Sorrow / Paddy Donnelly — Once to Every Man and Nation Comes the Moment of Decision / Aidan McCarron – Kiltegan Gets Busy with Ordinations Ahead / Liam Scanlan – The Price of Curiosity / Pat Prunty – My People / John Carroll – The End / Michael Rogers – Insight [photo gallery] – Wild Memories / Paddy Gallagher – Condemned / Ray Flanagan – Aonach an Spideil / P. Ó Fátharta – Brief Candle / Milo Connolly – Loch Ness Mystery / J. A. J. Thorlby – Playtime: “Dial M for Murder” / Fintan Byrne – “Na Gadaithe” / P. Ó Fátharta – Waltz Without End / James McAuliffe – ‘Juno and the Paycock’ – Book Reviews – Sport in Douglas / Brian Gilsenan – Sport in Kiltegan – Kiltegan Sports, 1961 / T. Naughton.
Extra #1: Includes several black & white photographs.
Extra #2: The cover photograph of this particular issue features the Bell Tower of the ‘New College’.
Extra #3: Link to the St. Patrick’s Missionary Society website
Full title: The City of Lies: a Stefan Gillespie novel
Creator / Author: Michael Russell
Item Type / Page count: Book / 355p
When Published: 2017
Publisher / Place of Publication: Constable / Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ.
About: This is the fourth book in a series of historical crime fiction featuring the West Wicklow based Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie. A number of deadly incidents in 1940 entangles our hero in the intelligence services of Ireland, Britain and Germany and the action gets serious when he is dispatched to Berlin on a sensitive mission.
ID number(s): 9781472121974
WW Connection #1: The hometown of the main character is given as Baltinglass.
WW Connection #2: The author is a resident of the Baltinglass / Kiltegan area.
Extra #1: Opening lines: “The town of Dunlavin sits on the edge of the great, flat pan of fields and fens that make up a large part of the middle of Ireland…”
Full title: Cluichí Ceannais Iomána an Chéid 30th Mean Fomháir 1984
Creator / Author: Coiste Condae Chill Mhantáin
Item Type / Page count: Booklet / 21p
When Published: 1984
Publisher / Place of Publication: Coiste Condae Chill Mhantáin / Aughrim(?), Co. Wicklow,
About: The official programme for the Wicklow County Hurling finals that were held in 1984, the centenary year of the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association. It contains some material of West Wicklow GAA interest.
ID number(s): None
Contents: Hurling Officer’s Address / Tomás Ó Colmáin — Focal ón gCathaoirleach — Remember the teams — Carnew Panel — The Town of Carnew [poem] — Special Trophy — The Senior Finals of ‘54 — Rooting the Ash / Fr. Liam Dunne C.C. — Kiltegan Panel — Did You Know? — The Chapel at Kilamoate [poem] — County Hurling Championship Final 50 Years Ago — Senior Hurling Champs Down the Years.
WW Connection #1: The Senior Hurling final featured two West Wicklow teams, Carnew Emmets and Kiltegan.
WW Connection #2: A special centenary football match that afternoon was also contested by two West Wicklow teams, Blessington and Baltinglass.
WW Connection #3: The foreword to the programme was written by Peter Keogh, the Kiltegan native who was the Chairman of the Wicklow GAA County Board.
WW Connection #4: Includes a poem relating to the district of each of the senior finalists, Carnew and Kiltegan.
Extra #1: includes many photographs of GAA interest.
Full title: The City in Darkness: a Stefan Gillespie novel
Creator / Author: Michael Russell
Item Type / Page count: Book / 338p
When Published: 2016
Publisher / Place of Publication: Constable / Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ.
About: This is the third book in a series of historical crime fiction featuring the West Wicklow based Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie. The action ranges from the Wicklow Mountains through Dublin and on to Spain and Portugal. The book is set in the early 1940’s which allows the author scope to use Second World War Europe and the ‘Emergency’ period in Ireland as backdrop to the story.
ID number(s): 9781472121929 / 9781472121912 / 9781472121943
WW Connection #1: The hometown of the main character is given as Baltinglass.
WW Connection #2: The author is a resident of the Baltinglass / Kiltegan area.
Extra #1: Opening lines: “There was barely a whisper of mist on the Upper Lake, a softness in the air where the water rippled among reeds and lapped on the pebble beach at the eastern end…”
Publisher / Place of Publication: Avon / 77-85 Fulham Place Road, London W6 8JB.
About: Another adventure for the West Wicklow based detective, Garda Sergeant Stefan Gillespie. A suspected murderer of a woman in Dublin becomes a fugitive and our hero is sent to New York to bring him back to face justice. However, that is just the start of the story and when Stefan bumps into an old friend in New York, things take a more complicated turn.
ID number(s): 9781847563477
WW Connection #1: The hometown of the main character is given as Baltinglass.
WW Connection #2: The author is a resident of the Baltinglass / Kiltegan area.
Extra #1: Opening lines: “The storm did not come suddenly. All day the wind from the Atlantic has blown hard and cold and fast against Pallas Strand…”
Publisher / Place of Publication: Avon / 77-85 Fulham Place Road, London W6 8JB.
About: A thriller which ranges from Dublin to Danzig and across the Dublin / Wicklow Mountains. The hero is Detective Stefan Gillespie who tries to solve the interlocked mysteries of two murders and a missing woman amid a city reluctant to reveal its darker secrets.
ID number(s): 9781847563460
WW Connection #1:The book is partially set in the hills of West Wicklow and the hometown of the main character is given as Baltinglass.
WW Connection #2:The author is a resident of the Baltinglass / Kiltegan area.
Extra #1: Opening line: ”The moon shone on the Liffey as it moved quietly through Dublin, towards the sea…”
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