Intimate and historic conversations with people prominent in Irish life. These voices range from the end of the nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth. Voices from politics, art, theatre, sport, religion, revolution. They are Ireland - complex, simple, fierce, gentle, mythical, real. This book is a valuable social document. Interviews with three Women of the Revolution of 1916 are a special feature. From first-hand experience these women bring those unique events to life as th
Binding: PaperbackDate Published: 01 May 2022Of all the thousands of patients who passed through Ennis psychiatric institution in its years of operation (1868 - 2002) under its various names perhaps only one, Jimmy Armstrong, had the opportunity to tell his life's story personally in book form.He was a most remarkable man in that he had an appreciation for small things, details that most people either miss or dismiss. Every road, field, lake hill in his loca