A Flame Now QuenchedThe Irish rebellion of 1798 comprised a scattered series of local uprisings and desperate incursions that, tragically for the rebels, failed to cohere. This fascinating portrait of County Leitrim in the 1790s provides important insights into the rebellion in Connaught. In Leitrim, the spirit of rebellion peaked in 1795 three years before General Humberts French troops and their Irish allies marched almost the full length of the county, with the

The people who have fared worst

economy and population of the Cork region and beyond

illness and conflicted relationships

Intimate portraits of literary Dublin in the twentieth century and earlier

on the wing

It conducts a unique conversation with the past

where he remained the rest of his life

the cead (a form of hurling) – and portraits of the Aran poets

Kavanagh’s leading interpreter and biographer

Death of a Chieftain (1964) and The Lost Notebook (1988)

translated by Kuno Meyer \n \nThis work

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