IntroductionBallinahown: the lost village under Blessington LakesHow Lord Meath's refusal led to Brunel's 'folly'Titanic's only Wicklow passenger was Glencree nativeKevin: the hermit who made his bed in Glendalough caveThe IRA, the general and four art heists at RussboroughBrittas Bay murder: victim of country's first serial killersArklow Bank lightship sunk by German U-boat in 1917Nazi master spy who was guest in Laragh CastleJack White publican's murder and the 'Black Widow'The entrapment of Parnell in a Victorian era scandalAllied and Axis aircraft down during the 'Emergency'Goldmine river and the great gold rush frenzy of 1795Last man hanged in Wicklow for murder of Tinahely moneylenderWhen the Civil War spilled over into County WicklowThe Vikings who founded the towns of Wykylo and Arnkell-lagThe story of the three lighthouses on Wicklow HeadYeoman found not guilty of reprisal murder of Delgany rebelLanding 600 German rifles at Kilcoole for the Irish VolunteersPower Castle and the magnificent Wingfield mansion --The historic O'Byrne defeat of Elizabethan forces at GlenmalureBray's iconic film studios - and its many sequelsBarndarrig shopkeeper murdered by Rathnew brothersDunlavin and Carnew executions triggered rebellion in 1798Megalithic monuments from Wicklow's prehistoric pastknockanna man's part in the Bloody Sunday assassinationsAustralian 'bushranger' from Avoca hanged on Norfolk IslandWicklow was the last of the 32 counties to be established.bibliography.

ISBN:

9781739593735

Rangúchán Dewey:

941.84941.84 LH STORE941.84 LH941.84 KIE LHLC941.84

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English

Réimse:

Wicklow (County) -- history

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3572765

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