At the launch of the 11th Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society on 11 November 2021 at Baltinglass Golf Club, Cora Crampton, one of the contributors to the journal, with her husband Michael Gorman. Many thanks to our member, Philip Reilly for deploying his photographic skills on the night.
This new issue features articles by an array of the area’s best known local historians, including Jim Corley, Brendan Corrigan, Cora Crampton, Johnny Glennon and Emma Lyons, and Rosemary Raughter from over the mountains. There are articles on oatmeal biscuits, railway history, Punchestown fashion, early twentieth century Unionist Wicklow women, the lead up to the Civil War in Kildare, a Wicklow man in India, Irish language influence on West Wicklow placenames, a beautiful woman in a long red cloak, and a murder in 1916.
Boleying or, more formally, transhumance, in the Wicklow area is examined. The sixteenth century ‘O’Tooles of Imail’ are brought to life. Burgage is visited and Baltinglass Courthouse is revisited. The Rev. Ogle Moore of Manor Kilbride is remembered. And then there is the Baltinglass-born Jennie Wyse Power (another O’Toole) and her husband featuring in the pages of Joyce’s Ulysses.
This Journal is bursting at the seams.
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Photo Credit: Philip Reilly