150th Anniversary of the Catalpa Rescue
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa Rescue in 1876, Kildare County Archives and Local Studies and Kildare Libraries Commemorative programme present a detailed account of the escape by John Breslin, from the Cork Examiner which was originally published by the New York Herald. We have included this in a new edition of ‘A Forgotten Hero – John Devoy’ which we published in 2008 and we have also included a rare pamphlet from 1929, which was uploaded to Kildare EHistory in 2016 and can…
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Kildare County Archives & Local Studies
Kildare County Archives holds the records of local government, along with some private papers and manuscript material relating to County Kildare. Kildare Local Studies holds an extensive collection of books, periodicals, maps, photographs and newspapers relating to the history and heritage of County Kildare, as well as Irish archaeology, history and heritage.
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Archives
Grand Jury
Poor Law Unions
Kildare County Council Minutes
Naas Urban District Council Minutes
Burial Grounds
Local Studies
Kildare Observer Newspaper (1880-1935)
Journals of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (1891-2006)
Resources Available at County Archives
Find My Past
British Newspaper Archive
Resources Available in Library Branches
Irish Newspaper Archive
Radical Newspapers Archive