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Book
launch - The Unknown Commandant in Kilkenny
Eyewitness
on display!
Heart of Burren Walks
Vincent McDonnell - Artist in
Residence
Book launch
- Ireland's Lighthouses by John Eagle at KAW
Signed Books Available
Space to Let
Bargain Basement!
Ian Kenneally
Titanic on Show
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Book
launch
The
Unknown Commandant
The
Life and Times of Denis Barry 1883–1923
Denis
Barry
The
Unknown Commandant gets its Kilkenny launch on
Wednesday 21 July 2010 at 8.30 p.m. Brian Cody, manager
of the Kilkenny hurling team, will be in James Stephens
GAA Club to honour Commandant Denis Barry, the author's
uncle and subject of the book.
Born
in Ballymartle, County Cork, Denis Barry toiled in the shadows
of Terence MacSwiney and Tomás MacCurtain in the
tumultuous Irish War of Independence. A brave soldier, patriot
and sportsman, he played hurling with Blackrock, Cork, and
when Blackrock won the first four-in-a-row from 1910 to
1913, Denis was selected to play with each team. He also
played football with Lees, a team representing drapers’
trade assistants employed in Cork City. Hunger strike ended
his life at the Curragh Military Prison in 1923. Controversy
surrounded his death when the government refused to release
the body to his grieving family. In size and tone, his funeral
cortege was similar to those that marked the burials of
MacCurtain and MacSwiney and, in more peaceful times, of
Christy Ring and Jack Lynch but the then Bishop Daniel Cohalan
refused to allow Denis’ remains to be brought into
any church in the diocese or to allow any priests to officiate
at the funeral.
Finally, 86 years later, on 4 December 2009, the Department
of Defence awarded a posthumous service medal to Commandant
Denis Barry for service from 1917 to 1921.
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Eyewitness
on display!
Eyewitness
Padraig
& Joan Kennelly’s images of Ireland: 1953–1973
A
major exhibition of photographs from the Kennelly Archive
will be on display in Kerry County Museum. Kerry Lives 1950–73:
a portrait of the county from the Kennelly Archive will
be launched by Dr Patrick Wallace, Director of the National
Museum of Ireland, will launch the exhibition on Friday
2 July 2010 at 6 p.m. The Kennelly Archive features photographs
from the first twenty years (1953–1973) of the photographic
careers of Padraig and Joan. The Kennellys covered every
sort of assignment from painful tragedy to the burgeoning
social scene of 1950s Ireland.
Contact
the Kerry County Museum for more information
Tel: 066-7127777
Email: info@kerrymuseum.ie
www.kerrymuseum.ie
Click
here
to visit the Kennelly Archive
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Heart
of Burren Walks
The
Burren and the Aran Islands
A
Walking Guide
Tony
Kirby
Tony
Kirby, author of The Burren and the Aran Islands – A
Walking Guide, also has a website, Heart of Burren Walks.
The website
has just had a major upgrade. Each month the newsletter
will include Heart of Burren walks news, Tony's Burren blogs
for that particular month and it will also highlight selected
Burren events.
Both the walks menu and the website have been extended to
include 2010 expanded summer schedule, heritage education
in schools (Rocky Burren, Cool Schools), farm walks, spirituality
walks, Burren eco breaks and the book.
Tony is really excited about the Blog from the Burren region
which will be all about people, places, food, music, heritage,
farming and much, much more. The first blog is a profile
of Eva Harald, a Swedish speaking native of Finland, who
runs a small free range pig farm near the Burren gateway
village of Kilfenora.
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Vincent
McDonnell - Artist in Residence
The
Catalpa Adventure
Congrats
to Vincent McDonnell! Not only have we just published his
latest book for children, The Catalpa Adventure,
but he has been appointed Artist in Residence in Nessan's
Primary School, Limerick. The scheme, which is organised
and funded by Limerick County Council Arts Office, was established
in 1997 and is open to all primary schools in the county.
The aim of the scheme is to offer pupils the opportunity
to work with an artist on a once-off project, in disciplines
such as literature, visual arts, dance, drama, music, photography,
film, etc. Vincent's other books are The Story of the GAA,
Michael Collins - Most Wanted Man and Titanic Tragedy.
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Book
launch
- Ireland's
Lighthouses
A
Photo Essay
John
Eagle
There
will be a launch of John Eagle's latest book during Kinsale
Arts Week, which takes place from 10 to 18 July 2010. Kinsale
Bookshop will host the event on Thursday 15 July at 1 p.m.
The book is the culmination of a project that lasted ten
years and involved several daring helicopter and boat rides.
Tom McSweeney (of Seascapes and RTE fame) will be there
on the day to say a few words.
Visit
the Kinsale Arts Week website
for details of what else is happening
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Signed
Books Available
If
you're looking for a special gift for someone or if you're
one of those people who gets a kick out of having a signed
copy of your favourite book, then you're in luck. We have
signed copies of a number of our books available and plan
to have signed copies of everything over the next few months.
Just let us know you'd like a signed copy when you order
your book.
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Bargain
Basement!
We
have just opened up our Bargain
Basement for special offers on a wide range of great
titles. Make sure to keep checking back for new offers!
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Titanic
on Show
The
Citywest Hotel in Dublin is the place to visit for all things
Titanic right now. An exhibition of artefacts
is on show in the hotel, displaying authentic items from
the ill-fated ship.
Click
here
for more information
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Ian
Kenneally
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Ian
Kenneally has just set up his own website,
with information on his books - Courage & Conflict
and The Paper Wall. Ian will give a talk
on Courage & Conflict to the Leitrim Historical Society
on 20 October 2010 (they certainly plan ahead, don't they!).
If you'd like Ian to visit your historical society, please
get in touch on enquiries@collinspress.ie
or 021-4347717.
Keep
checking back for more on Ian and his writing.
