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Once a small fishing village on the north-west coast of Ireland, Killybegs has become one of the most important fishing ports in the country. Killybegs then and now is a chronicle of how this beautiful little town, with Donegal Bay at its feet and the towering mass of Crownarad at its back, has changed over the years. An unforgettable picture of the town, the harbour and the people of Killybegs.
In this book the Famine in south west Donegal is examined from a local point of view for the first time. The people in this area suffered immensely following the blight on the potato crop during several successive years. The inhabitants of Glenties, Adara, Glencolumbkille, Teelin, Carrick, Kilcar, Killybegs, Dunkineely, Inver, Mountcharles, and Donegal came through those terrible years without a significant level of deaths. However, they paid an enormous price for their survival. Many lost their homes, their farms, their livestock, and, most of all, their quiet dignity, when, unable to feed their children, the British Association stepped in to keep them alive.
"This work represents the largest compilation of Irish family names and Irish coats-of-arms ever bound together under one cover."--Jacket.
Tyrone Meehan, a man vilified as an informer, ekes out his days in Donegal, waiting for his killers to come.
A second album of colour photographs of County Donegal Railways including some rare views from the early 1950s. The book follows a thematic approach, focusing on principal stations and on locomotives, railcars and carriages.
The Göring Gamble A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill 1930s Adventure In late 1934, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary closes in on exposing an international scandal that promises to be one of the biggest stories in her career. Through her godfather Winston Churchill and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, head of the largest Reform Jewish congregation in the United States, Mattie receives copies of documents showing that in early 1933, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Göring, began to create an illegal thousand-bomber air force forbidden to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Shockingly, since Germany will not have the capacity to mass-produce advanced high-speed a...
A history of the fishing industry in Donegal, Ireland.