Journal 8 – 2015

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Tubber and the Castle Leslie connection by Emma Lyons; Hillfort construction at Baltinglass by James O’Driscoll; From crime to wine: The Claytons of New South Wales by Margaret Smith; Robert Pipho and the Baltinglass Rebellion by Brendan Corrigan; Recovering George Francis Savage-Armstrong as a poet of Wicklow by Rosemary Raughter; Not so doddery: The Dunlavin Solicitor, Mr. Reuben J. Dodd by Declan O’Connor; A Black and Tan (William Mitchell) executed by D. J. Kelly; A famous row between two publicans at Ballymore Eustace in 1886 by John Glennon; Rathdangan and Killamoate: my native area by Peadar C.Ó Cuilinn; In the shadow of Joseph Holt by Henry Austin; Death on a country road (Miss Margaret Dunne), by James Scannell; ‘The Hillside Farm, or how we lived in the 1880s’ an extract entitled ‘Poor men and poor women’ by Joe McArdle; Two August 1911 cycling mishaps by James Scannell The Dunlavin massacre: two ballads of 1798 by Chris Lawlor.