Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

Discover Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney who was active in five different resistance networks in Paris helping allied soldiers to get to safety; Captain John Keany from Cork, who parachuted behind enemy lines to help the Resistance in Italy; and Catherine Crean, the Irish governess born ...

Despite the scale and exponential growth of the cancer book world, uncovering great cancer writing is a monumental task. No treasury of essential reading, nor introductory guide with helpful interpretations, exists. “The Breath of Consolation” addresses this gap. It honours fifty literary treas...