Description
Contents:
Réamhrá 1
The Hackney Car 3
School Life in Hollymount 7
Stories of Kerry Long ago 9
Elegy by Joseph Dinneen 12
An Baile Seo ‘gamsa – a requiem for Irish 13
My life and music – Jimmy O’Brien 18
Travellers 23
Hurling in the 18th Century 26
‘The Troubles’ from a local perspective 29
The R.I.C. 32
The R.I.C. and some local involvement 38
Further musings of Batt Brosnan 43
Knocknagree village in the 1940s 44
Death of Johnny O’Leary 55
Joseph Warren McCarthy’s Diary 58
The Rag in Rathmore 66
Going to Knock 68
The Herberts of Killeentierna 73
Claodach Rua 75
An Áit Úd Claodach 77
Gneeveguilla (Poem) 78
Rathmore’s Early Ecclesiastical Enclosure 79
Remembering the Auniskirtaun River 84
Spring River of Auniskirtaun 88
The Townie and the Strongman 89
Maolsheachlainn Ó Muineacháin 91
Rathmore Parish Grotto 93
Perfume in the 1930s and a Notes on other days 95
The Cahirbarnagh Letters 96
Bard of Mín Dorcha 100
Hunting and Fowling 102
Rathmore Races 106
Groundwork and the Sixty Four Man (poems)108
Remembering Patie Healy 109
Presentation Sisters leave School 112
A note on the Fardown 114
John O’Mahony R.I.P. 115
Diarmuid Moynihan R.I.P. 116
Editor’s Note 117
Patrons of Cumann Luachra 118
Ar Shlí na Fírinne 121
