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Personal heirlooms, including medals, photographs and documents from those involved in the fighting, form part of a new exhibition on The War of Independence and Civil War in Wexford Library. Commissioned by Wexford County Council Library Service and scripted by Celestine Murphy, historian, the exhibition traces the progression of the war in the county beginning with the death of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party on March 6, 1918.

Volumes two and three of On Our Own Ground: County Wexford Parish by Parish were officially launched during a live video-conference call hosted by County Librarian Eileen Morrissey last week. The books follow on from the first volume, which was released in 2013, and 'detail the natural heritage of County Wexford through the centuries' with 'photography, drawings and maps to compliment the detailed text'. All 3,000 townlands in the county are featured and, according to Dr Culleton, the aim was to present as much information as possible in a relatively straightforward fashion. 'My aim was to p...