Launch of two new Volumes
As 2025 draws to a close, two new Volumes with plenty of Kildare interest have been launched. VOL. XXV of the Journal Of The County Kildare Archaeological Society was launched on October 18th, 2025 in Martinstown House. For more information visit www.kildarearchsoc.ie. Contents below:
Shiels, Melissa: The Fair Geraldine and the Tudor court: proximity, persuasion and presents.
Wyse, Brendan: Territory & topography in the Kildare & Offaly Border region.
Stifter, David: The Donaghmore Ogham Stone.
Crampton, Cora: Three women of the O’Byrnes: insights into the social & political world of 16th century Gaelic Ireland.
McCabe, Brian: The vanished Flatsburys.
Corry, Eoghan: Census & sensibility: a population history of Kildare.
Kenny, Liam: “Troops … don’t behave like clerics”: Carton House, Maynooth and wartime, 1941-43.
On November 20th, 2025, the 2025-2027 Volume of the Journal Of The West Wicklow Historical Society was launched.
Contents of the Volume:
Murphy, Margaret: The Baltinglass Area in the Medieval Period c.400 AD to 1580.
Lennon, Richard: Diarmuid Ó Muineacháin and Michael Hargadon: two early 20th c. poets with a Baltinglass connection.
Kenny, Liam: ‘The peace of the historic Glen was much disturbed’. The founding of the Glen of Imaal firing range.
Crampton, Cora: The transformation of warfare in 16th century Ireland: the case of the lordship of Feach McHugh O’Byrne.
O’Brien, John: The rotten borough of Harristown: 1681-1800.
Corrigan, Brendan: “What’s in a name’ – Lemonstown Motte.
Kelly, Mairead: A sociological interpretation of the Hillfort Capital: Rathcoran, Rathnagree & Sruhan. Part 2 of 3.
Glennon, John: The Hollywood Shamrocks and the early years of the GAA in west Wicklow.
Roddy, Ita: “Rivers of time” – Tracing the courses of the Toor stream and the Greese River on the Wicklow/Kildare border.
Keenan, Declan: Military Power of Gaelic and Gaelicised Magnates during the mid-16th century.
Lawlor, Chris: We’re true United Irishmen; we’ll fight until we die’: A bicentennial evaluation of Michael Dwyer’s guerilla campaign in the Wicklow Mountains and its legacy.”
For more information, or to purchase a copy, visit: westwicklowhistoricalsociety.ie
