Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

The Tuam Herald profiles women , historic and contemporary who have contributed to our society.

The Tuam Herald profiles Women, Historic and Contemporary, who have contributed to our Society.

"When the Reader has perused the relation of them given here, he will perhaps come to the conclusion I have arrived at, that for wonders- or Mirabilia as they are called in Latin-no other Country in Europe was fit to hold a candle to Ireland."

" This story takes the reader on an amazing journey through time and gives wonderful insights into life in the past. It is a fascinating account of people and events that shaped this remarkable place."

The extraordinary European journeys of Irish Monks in the early Medieval Period is a story seldom told, but is now the focus of an exhibition, and this Catalogue. Their often-hazardous pilgrimages took them through wealthy Continental Kingdoms and onward over the high mountain passes of Switzerla...