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WestWicklowHistoricalSocietyJournal2021

 

Contents

A word from the Chairman………………………………………………………………………………. 4

Ramblings of the Secretary……………………………………………………………………………… 5

Editor’s Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6

Ladies’Day at Punchestown : 150 years of Festival Fashion.……………………………. 7

Dr.Emma Lyons

The O’Tooles of Imail in the sixteenth century……………………………………………. 15

Brendan Corrigan

‘Home Rule is throwing many a shadow just now’:

Wicklow women, Unionism and the Women’s Declaration of 1912.……….. 33

Rosemary Raughter

‘A Celt, A Catholic and a Peasant’–A Wicklow man in India………………………….. 49

Andrew Keating

John and Jennie Wyse Power – the real-life couple featured in

James Joyce’s Ulysses………………………………………………………………………………. 55

Cora Crampton

The Rev.Ogle Moore of Manor Kilbride..………………………………………………………. 81

Jim Corley

The beautiful woman in the long red cloak…………………………………………………… 88

Ita Roddy

Winter – trans humance routes between the Wicklow Mountains and the surrounding lowlands…………………………………………………………………. 96

John Hussey

Murder Most Foul..……………………………………………………………………………………… 111

Maura Murphy Gibson

Some aspects of County Wicklow’s railway history……………………………………….. 118

James Scannell

Back to Burgage.………………………………………………………………………………………….. 127

Niamh and Brian McCabe

The Irish language influence in west Wicklow place names……………………… 135

Johnny Glennon

Oatmeal Biscuits….……………………………………………………………………………………… 140

Sarah Gillespie

Divided loyalties in Kildare: truce, treaty and drift to Civil War..……………… 144

Mick Murphy

Baltinglass bridewell and courthouse …………………………………………………………. 151

Chris Lawlor