Coiseanna: Journal of Local History Group

2012 The Abbey Cemetery by John Noonan Past Residents of Clane - Part 1 by John Noonan Thomas Francis Meagher Clongowes Studen and Rebel by Brendan Cullen The Legend of Dan Donnelly, Regency Rouge by Larry Breen Clane's Link to the Titanic Disaster by Pat Given Charles Weld, the Gentleman Soldier by Joan Weld-Moore and Lisa Newham Mainham in the 1940s and 1950s by Brendan Cullen The Griffiths at Millicent by Jim Heffernan Alexandra Bridge, Clane by Brendan Cullen Strange Happenings in Clane by John Noonan Viscount Dongan of Clane by Pat Given Tommy Conneff - The Pride of Clane by Ciarán Reilly Clane's Parnell Cottages by Pat Given Father John Doyle - A Clane Parish Priest and the Building 0f Cooleragh Church by Michael Clifford Miscellany

2013 Leaving Clane Behing, Emigration During the First Irish Famine by Ciarán Reilly , Clongowes and Clane by Brendan Cullen by Brendan Cullen St Michael and All Angels Church by Carita O'Leary Elizabeth Griffith by Jim Heffernan Jack Dempsey 'Nonpareil' Clane's World Champion Boxer by John Noonan The Clane-Kilarney Football Connection Part 1 by Michael Clifford Clane Schools in the 1820s by Úna Heffernan The Firt Garda Sergeant in Clane by John Noonan Immigrant Leaps from to New York by Mary Lee Dunn The Liberator's Family and Clongowes by Brendan Cullen Colonel Edward Wogan by Jim Heffernan More Strange Happenings in Clane by John Noonan Miscellany

2014 Clongowes: Two Hundred Years A-Growing by Brendan Cullen My Mother Alice Curtayne by Andrew Rynne Coolcarrigan by John Hillis Gravel Football in Clongowes by Brendan Cullen Ever Welcome Letters from America by Mary Lee Dunne The Killing of Lt. Wogan Brown by James Durney Thomas Cooke-Trench by Rev. David Fraser Memories of Growing up in Loughanure by Bernadette Plunkett Firmount Demesne and its House by Pat Given The Amalgamation fo Clongoews and Tullabeg by Fr. Bruce Bradley, S.J. Charles Wogan the Constant Jacobite by Jim Heffernan The Handys in Clane 1934-1974 by Ruth Handy Kildare's by Larry Breeen Aggie Weir and the Houses on Clane Green Miscellany

2015 Some Clane residences and their owners by Pat Given James Joyce's schooldays in Kildare by Bruce Bradley SJ Fifty years at Blackhall Stud by John Noonan Joseph Delamere Whyte by John Noonan Flight Lieutenant Michael J. Casey - From Clongowes to the Great Escape by James Durney Mrs. Handy's Carol Singers by Des Marron A Whistler remembers Punchestown by Mick Mulvey Andy McGann - A Voice from the Past by Brendan Cullen The Old Bridge and Ford at Clane by Tony McEvoy The Irish at War - Arbour Hill by Larry Breen Jubilee Nurses' in Clane 1932-1959 by John Noonan & Jim Heffernan The reconstruction of the 'Abbey' by Ted Murray Clane's Hidden Gems by Brendan Cullen Molly Maguires in Kildare by Brian McCabe Miscellany

2016 Dell Weld - Reminiscing by Joan Weld Moore The Franciscan in Clane by Fr. Pat Conlon OFM Remembering the 'Good Old Days' by Bernadette Plunket Sources for Clane Local History by Ciarán Reilly Clongowes Wood College: the Early Years by Brendan Cullen Living in Landenstown House by Peter Schmelter Tom Harris and the 1916 Rising by James Durney From Clongowes to Capetown by Ciarán Reilly The Kildare Scheme and the Turf Camps by Maureen Gill-Cummins A Letter from Missouri by John Noonan Wolfe Tone - Family Man by Larry Breen Pat Lynch Remembers by Pat Lynch Clane's Role in Preserving Tone's Grave by Pat Given Dens Dunne Memories of Mainham by John Noonan Review of 'God Provoking Democrat' by Henry Bauress Miscellany

2017 The High Cross at by Brendan Cullen My Uncle Frank by Mario Corrigan Father John Sullivan by Fr. C Harper SJ Clane & Mainham Companies, IRA 1917-22 by James Durney Elizabeth Griffith, Actress and Write by Jim Heffernan Tales of the Good People by John Noonan There's Gold in Them Thar Hills by Nick Coy Clane's Military Auxiliary Hospital by Pat Given In the Wilds of Arkansas: the Sisters of Mercy in Little Rock by Anne Breen Dominic Kelly: The Man Who Sang for Joyce by Bruce Bradley SJ A Blundell Family Link with Clane by Pat Given Restoring the Nass Canal Crance by Larry Breen The Archaeology of Clane Friary by Pat Given The General by Dessie Marron WW1 Military Fatalities from Clane and Locality by Pat Given Obituaries - John (Jack Noonan) & Una Heffernan by Pat Given Miscellany

2018 Captain Robert Halpin by John Finlay The Construction of the Grand Canal in Kildare by Jim Heffernan The High Cross by Brendan Cullen Whither the Curragh? By Adrian Mullowney Clane's Bullaun Stone by Lorcan Harney & Stephen Morrin Dr. McCarthy - a Doctor's War by Des Drumm Sir Thomas Wentworth Bart by Mae Leonard Fairy Lore by Doreen McBridge The Daly Family of Galway and Jamaica by Henry Bauress Fr. Willie Doyle S.J. by Brendan Cullen The Tyrrells of Ballindoolin, Carbury - the 1916 and its Aftermath Archaeology of the Bypass by Noel Dunne Lurgan's Master McGrath by Larry Breen Clane and the Kinight's Hospitallers by Pat Given Miscellany

2019 Remembering Carigeen's Forgotten Monuments by Lorcan Harney Interpresting Some Coats of Arms in the Clane Area by Jim Heffernan A Joycean Tour of Clongowes Wood College by Brendan Cullen Lurgan's George William Russell by Brian McKernan The Consecration of St Michael & All Angels Church The Wolfhill Railway by Frank Taaffe The Pickled Earl by Brian McCabe Adeste Fidelis and Clongowes Wood College by Liam Kenny Wicklow Gaol by Stan J. O'Reilly Richard Griffith of Millicent by Jim Heffernan The History of Barberstown Castle The Sinking of RMS Leinster by Philip Lecane A Landscape for Manufacturing Bricks - Archaeologicall Evidence from the Sallins Bypass by Noel Dunne Monsterboice and Muredach's High Cross by Brendan Cullen Richard Grattan (1790-1886) of Drummin House Carbury by Ciaran Reilly Obituary - Pat Given by Larry Breen Miscellany

2020 A Short History of Clane by Pat Given The Hill of Tara by Brendan Cullen The History of Clongowes Wood College Farm by John O'Dea Ancient Times Long Forgotten, Unearthing the Pre-Historic Archaeology of Clane by Lorcan Harney From Riches to Rags, the Life and Times of Horace de Vere Cole by Jim Heffernan The Name of Clane and Related Matters by Tony McEvoy Get Down on Your Kneews and Pray for Shackleton' by Kevin Kenny Kildare County Council and the War of Independence by Liam Kenny The Georgian Castle at Clongowes by Andrew Tierney The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels by Jim Heffernan A Clane connection with Robben Island South Africa by Ciarán Reilly History of Polo in by Kim Mullahey and Eoghan Corry Weak Tea, Bread, Bad Spuds and Bog Workers by Henry Bauress Folklore and Holy Wells in Kildare by Stan O'Reilly Miscellany - Clane Bus, Church of St Patrick, Motor Fatality 1930, Andy McGann etc.