Offaly Heritage 11 (2020)

Editor: Dr Ciarán Reilly

Editorial Committee: Michael Byrne, Ciarán MacCabe and Lisa Shortall Contents of Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), pp 441, softback €15, hardback €25. Foreword: Jane Maxwell, ‘The growth of local history: an historiographical game-changer’, xi–xiii. Editor’s Note, Ciarán Reilly, xiv. Note on Contributors, x.

Short biographies of revolutionary figures in Offaly, 1912–23 P.J. Bermingham (1872–1975), 2–3. Eamonn Bulfin of Derrinlough, 26–7 Father Thomas Burbage (1879–1966), 42–5 Revd Philip Callary (1849–1925), 73–4 Cumann na mBan in Offaly, 80–81 Thomas Dunne (1884–1968), 90–91 James Perry Goodbody (1853–1923), 134–5 Catherine Mahon (1869–1948), 157–8 Patrick McCartan (1878–1963), 179–80 Seán McGuinness (1899–1978), 189–90 T. M. Russell (1868–1932), 205–6

Section One – Decade of Commemorations, 1912–23

Stephen Callaghan, Denis Shine and Heather Montgomery, ‘Great War training trenches at Birr Barracks: A rehearsal ground for Kitchener’s new army’, Offaly ​ Heritage 11 (2020), 4–25. ​

Michael Byrne, ‘The Shannon Stream Cabinet and Chair Works, Banagher, 1914–1919’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 28–41. ​ ​

Michael Goodbody, ‘Uncertain times: Some experiences of the Goodbody family in Clara, 1919–1923’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 46-72. ​ ​

Michael Byrne, ‘Thomas Mitchell and the passing of the old order in Birr, 1914–1918’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 75–79. ​ ​

Ciaran Reilly, ‘James ‘Ginger’ Moran of Edenderry: From full-back to I.R.A leader’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 82–89. ​ ​

Michael Byrne, ‘The ballot box and the gun: the War of independence in County Offaly in 1920’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 92–133 ​ ​

Michael Goodbody, ‘Changes in Clara’s ‘big house’ ownership following Irish independence: the case of Inchmore and Drayton Villa’, Offaly Heritage 11 ​ ​ (2020), 136–56.

Michael Byrne, ‘Birr – ‘‘A constitutional island in a sea of Sinn Fein’: the account of Wilfrid Ewart of his walking from Cork to Belfast via Birr and Tullamore in 1921’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 159–78. ​ ​

Michael Byrne, ‘A Tullamore schoolboy’s diary of episodes in the years of the War of Independence and Civil War: A diary by Patrick Wrafter, Church Street, Tullamore’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 181–88. ​ ​

Lisa Shortall, ‘Minding the Geashill Cauldron, 1859–1955’, Offaly Heritage 11 ​ ​ (2020), 191–204.

Section Two – Essays

Timothy P. O’Neill, ‘The crown lands in Durrow, Tullamore, County Offaly and title succession from 1560s’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 208–29. ​ ​

Paul Huddie, ‘The Story of Birr’s Russian cannon’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), ​ ​ 230–41

Sylvia Turner, ‘Famine, epidemic, pandemic, and political turmoil in Ireland: The life of Elizabeth Kerin née Evans, 1881 – 1967’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), ​ ​ 242–54.

Fergal McCabe, ‘From Clara Road to Portland Place: The exciting journey of a Tullamore architect’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 255–57. ​ ​

Mairead Finnegan, ‘The Edenderry museum of Irish antiquities’, Offaly ​ Heritage 11 (2020), 258–62. ​

Michael Byrne, ‘The John Keegan of Moate diary: the Famine years and south Offaly’, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 263–77. ​ ​

Section Three – Reviews, Obituaries, Bibliography, Reports

Book Reviews, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 278–336. ​ ​

Obituaries, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 337–56. ​ ​

Writings on Offaly History 2018, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 357–67. ​ ​

Annual Report on Offaly History for 2018–2019, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), ​ ​ 368–93.

Offaly History Honorary Life Membership – George Cunningham, Offaly ​ Heritage 11 (2020), 394–96. ​

Report of Offaly Heritage Officer, Amanda Pedlow, 2018–2019, Offaly ​ Heritage 11 (2020), 397–401. ​

Offaly Archives Review, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 402–26. ​ ​

Gallery of events, 2018–2019, Offaly Heritage 11 (2020), 427–41. ​ ​

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