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It’s only a few weeks to Christmas. There are two recent publications of mine available to buy, which readers of the column might be interested in. Both were published in the past 18 months.

Minaun Community Theatre Group’s cast for ‘Fernside’. Standing from left: Cian O’Sullivan (Major Osbert Smyth), Mary Grehen (British Captain)…

While September 1922 coincided with offensive and randomly located rifle fire by Anti-Treaty IRA volunteers on the National Army troops, October 1922 coincided with a step up in the type of weapons used - especially using hand grenades.

The Chesterton Art Center is exhibiting the work of renowned artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and regional print artists.

Named after the Arya Samaj educationist Dwarka Das, a colleague and friend of Lala Lajpat Rai, this Lahore library churned out revolutionaries quite liberally.

Alex O'Sullivan

It has been fifteen years since this column focussed on the Timothy Kennefick memorial near Coachford. My thanks to Tony McCarthy of Blarney for raising Timothy’s story way back when this column was exploring and writing about the River Lee valley.

Following the success of the Michael Collins Centenary Commemoration in Granard on Sunday, August 21, the exhibition of artefacts and memorabilia at Knights and...

They came, they saw and for a number of emotion-filled hours last Sunday, hundreds of spectators brought Granard to a standstill to remember quite possibly its ...

Theres a slight change to our Echoes of Our Past this week, as Richard Forrest explains