Journal 12 – 2023

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Mapping the devolved Gaelic territories and districts of the O’Tooles by Declan Keenan; Migrant railway workers and local communities: a case study of Harristown station on the Sallins-Tullow branch line 1883-1951 by John O’Brien; Some observations on the Great famine in County Wicklow, c.1845-1850 by Gerald Cullen; Gentry, Brides and Lions- Ballybeg House, Tinahely by Maura Murphy Gibson; The man who wore a blue shirt in 1933: the Bass War in West Wicklow and Kildare, by Declan O’Connor; A little bit of Bulgaria in Ireland: Pierce O’Mahony (1850-1930): politician and philanthropist by Brian McCabe; Dame Ninette de Valois (Edris Stannus), by Paul Tyrell; A 1792 Rental of the Lordship of Belan, Co. Kildare by Richard B. Lennon; Language Matters Revisited by Ita Roddy; Death from a Flat-Nosed Bullet in Blessington by James Scannell; A farming community: Hollywood in the early twentieth century by John Glennon; Sadhbh O’Byrne – glimpses of a Gaelic woman of sixteenth-century Ireland by Cora Crampton; The Manor of Blessington, created by Michael Boyle by Jim Corley; Revisiting the 1798 Dunlavin massacre for its 225th anniversary by Chris Lawlor; Balfe the Robber by Brendan Corrigan; A sociological interpretation of the Hillfort Capital – exploring Hughstown and Tinoran hillforts (part 1 of 3) by Mairéad Kelly; Charles Maule Drury (1848-1939) – collector of folklore by Paul Gorry; The castles of Oldcourt and Three Castles by Peter W. Halligan; ‘I say it as I think it’ : The life and controversial times of Rev. T. C. O’Connor, Rector of Donoughmore and Donard by Rosemary Raughter.