A social history of Aughrim since 1691
Aughrim Development Company
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Príomhtheideal:
A social history of Aughrim since 1691 / compiled and edited by Aughrim Development Company.
Inphrionta:
Ballinasloe, Co Galway : Aughrim Development Company, 2005.
Leathanaigh in ord:
[10] 174 p. ; green spine
Contents:
Echoes of schooldays -- [Protestant education -- the orphanage school -- Memories of schooldays / R Cooke -- National School system -- compulsory education -- Catholic education -- pre-school education -- table from The Second Report of the Commissioners of Irish Education 1826] -- Our sporting history -- [(GAA) -- list of local people and sporting honours achieved -- snippets -- cricket -- pitch & putt -- horse & pony racing -- Liam Stanley's stories -- Finns golfing society -- badminton club -- rugby -- soccer -- camogie -- ladies' football -- Catriona Cormican -- Bernie Goode -- Paddy Hurney -- Martin Joyce -- GAA buildings & infrastructure -- Gertie Kelly, R.I.P. -- Hughie Bleahene -- Damien Joyce -- John Dillon -- Gerry Coone -- Pat Lally -- Eugene Hession -- Desmond Ryan -- Laurence Larkin -- Seamus Shinners -- Sean O'Brien -- referees -- Peter Cleary -- Olympics hero Frank Hynes] -- the Famine -- [admittance to the workhouse (Ballinasloe) -- disease -- the dead unburied -- distress] -- They did us proud -- [William James MacNeven (1763-1841) or McNevin -- John Egan... King of Ottawa (lumberman) -- Bishop Patrick Joseph Kelly S.M.A. (1894-1991) -- Martin J Joyce (1909-1991) / Joe Joyce] -- Folklore -- [fairy forts -- games played -- local placenames -- my home district: Newcastle and Fairfield -- festival customs -- Little Christmas & the Epiphany -- St. John -- plants -- old crafts -- Aughrim re-visited [poem] -- the big wind (6Jan1839) -- famine -- churning -- marriage customs -- local cures -- hidden treasure -- concerning the Battle of Aughrim -- The Dog of Aughrim / [poem] unknown author --.the Orphanage [Aughrim Home -- the story of Eileen Beatty] -- on the alert / Michael Keary (LSF & LDF, Local Security Force & Local Defence Force ) -- relics of the past [barrows -- standing stones -- fulachta fiadh -- hilltop enclosures & other large enclosures -- ringforts -- earthworks -- souterrains -- ecclesiastical remains -- crosses -- holy & named wells -- wayside monuments -- children's burial grounds -- moated sites -- castles -- miscellaneous monuments -- Ballydonnellan Castle (= Ballydonelan Castle) -- placenames of the Parish of Aughrim (English, Irish, explanation)] -- the battle remembered -- [Aughrim battlefield memorial -- Battle of Aughrim Interpretive Centre] -- Golden moments -- [Aughrim Slopes céilí band/ Aoife Kelly -- Aughrim dramatic society / John Hanrahan -- Micheál Mór agus City Sue [recitatation] -- photographs] -- Our religious heritage [St. Catherine's well & holy well at Garrymore -- parochial house -- Holy Trinity Church (the Champ memorials -- transept windows -- memorial tablets -- church furniture) -- Church Rectory or Glebe House -- Bishop's Chair, Ballylogue -- Aughrim P.T.A.A. / Mary Ryan -- Why go to Church? [poem] / Fr. Sean Slattery, PP Ballymacward -- A walk through the village [the post office -- Dáil representatives] -- competition time [ Churches in the area / Laura Ann Stephenson, 10 -- Somerset hoard / John Conneely, St. Augustine's N.S.] -- the past recalled (Ardros or Ardras) / Luke Nolan -- The Wades / information from Michael Hyde -- moving on and reaching out [Sunflowers Chernobyl Appeal -- Community alert -- the Golden Mile -- Aughrim's Golden Mile 2004 ( N6 Kinnaveelish -- Old Schoolhouse Restaurant -- Foats -- Kilcommodan Hill -- St. Ruth's Bush -- quarry -- Bloody Hollow -- Gunners gap -- the beech tree grove ) -- Aughrim's Golden Mile 2005 ( Kilcommodan Hill -- Tristaun Bridge -- the bleach house -- Mill race -- the esker ) -- as we move on ( CTI = Christian Training Institute ) -- bibliography -- extract from Griffith's Valuation for Parish of Aughrim.Foreward / Paddy Naughton, Chairperson, Aughrim Development Company Ltd. -- FAS participants -- Aughrim then and now [Aughrim of the O'Kelly's -- principal residences in 1837 -- population] -- life on the land [Report of the Commissioners for Enquiring into the Conditions of the Poorer Classes in Ireland 1836 (evidence of people of Aughrim & Kilconnell on topics: food -- clothing -- furniture -- cottages & cabins -- fuel & heat -- earnings of labourers -- employment of women & children -- cottier tenants -- small tenantry) -- agrarian agitation -- Gladstone's Land Act 1870 -- Michael Davitt (1846-1906) -- Irishtown meeting 1879 -- Irish National Land League -- Land War 1879-82 -- Land Act 1881 -- Ashbourne Act 1885 -- Plan of Campaign 1886-92 -- the Loughnan eviction in Aughrim -- Local Government Act Ireland 1898 -- Wyndham Land Act 1903 -- Birrell Act 1909 (compulsory purchase) -- the Co-operative Movement -- the Economic War -- National Farmers' Association -- Herds (Shepherds) -- land drainage in Aughrim -- Agriculture: a year's work...the way it was / Robert Cooke -- visit to Hurney's Forge, Tristane / Tom McLoughlin -- list from Landowners of Ireland -- the Norths (of Northbrook) / John Whitestone Ringling North, 1956 -- a Florida cracker in the West of Ireland (of Northbrook ) / John Ringling North II, 1997 --.
ISBN:
0955167302 ((pbk.) :)
Rangúchán Dewey:
941.74
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
BRN:
626055