Daly, Eugene.

Heir Island. Its History and People.

Leap, Heron’s Way Press, 2004. 25.3cm x 18cm. xx, 324 pages. Includes maps, photographs and appendices. Original illustrated hardcover. Rare ! Out-of-Print- Publication ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following chapters: History of O’Driscolls/ Early Christianity/ Coppingers, Townsends, Beechers/ The Eighteenth Century/ Early Nineteenth Century Records/ Famine/ Edward Spring and the Island Coast Society/ Emigration/ Agrarian Trouble 1850-1900/ Fever/ Timothy McCarthy Drowning/ The 1890s in Heir and West Cork/ Shipwrecks/ Tragedy and Heroism in Roaringwater Bay/ The Sea/ Heir Island Boatbuilders/ Nonie Nance Cahalane/ Family Names of Heir Island, Skeams and East Calf Island/ The Land/ Growing up on Heir Island in the 1920s and 30s, Catherine O’Connor/ Population/ Placenames/ Captain Con Burke/ Emigrant’s Story, Ellen Minihane/ Education/ Religion/ Birth, Marriage and Death/ Houses/ The Women’s Role/ The Cycle of the Year/ Social Life/ Shops/ Water and Electricity/ The Skeams/ Life on East Skeam, Mary Dwyer/ East Calf Island/ Connections with the Mainland/ Language/ Flora and Fauna/ Lore/ The Island Today etc.

The popolation on Heir Island is starting to rise again slowly. This book celebrates the island and its people.

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Five – Local Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Heir Island · Irish History · West Cork
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954866207
• Inventory Number: 28745AB

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