Publications

Contents:
William O’Sullivan Esq., Carriganass Castle, Kealkill – Patrick Crowley
Garryvurcha Church, Church Road, Bantry – Hazel Vickery
A Mealagh Man – Seamus O’Shea
Growing up in Bantry in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century – Margaret Connolly
The Vice-Guardians of Bantry Union: A Call for Recognition – Geraldine Powell
The Shooting of William Simms Bird – Sean Fitzgerald
What makes a great Irish street – Kevin Hourihan
The life of Edith Newman Devlin Woman of Letters – Sean Kelly

Contents:
A Poteen Maker Looks Back – Jack McCarthy
Driving to Kilmichael: Lt Cecil Guthrie of the RIC Auxiliary Division – Andy Bielenberg
A Crowley son of Bantry – Thomas White
Bantry’s former courthouse in its historical context – Richard Butler
The rebel’s wife: Matilda Witherington Tone – Larry Breen
The Lives and Times of the Bryces of Garnish Island – Jim Larner
Miniature masterpieces: a century of Irish Stamps – Stephen Ferguson
A Woman’s Voice? The Cult of St Canir of Bantry – Elva Johnston
Some Observations on Bantry’s Townscape – Kevin Hourihan
The Doonour Stone: Early Bronze Age metalworking – Sharon Weadick
Poteen a commercial enterprise – Liam Downey
The RIC District during the War of Independence – Diarmuid Kingston
The Bantry Branch – Oliver Doyle
The Franciscans in Bantry – Patrick Conlan
Extract from History of Bantry Óglaig na hÉireann – Raphael P. Keyes
The Church or Ireland Disestabhlished 1871 – Robin Bantry-White
The Treaty Ports 1938-1945 – Michael Kennedy
A Daytrip from Bantry – Áine Brosnan

Contents:
Sheela Na Gig: Midwife of the Soul – Aine Brosnan
St Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Bantry: a history – Richard J. Butler
The Evansons and O’Donovans: Forgotten Landlords and Magistrates of Durrus – Pat Crowley
Let’s Light the Town of Bantry – Frank O’Donovan
Bantry Railway Station Fire 1954 – Oliver Doyle
Unusual Rock Art near Bantry, West Cork, The Ballybane Group – Finola Finlay & Robert Harris
Some Notes on Bantry’s Streets, Roads, Lanes and Terraces – Colum Hourihane
Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815): Ireland’s first Female Botanist – Madeline Hutchins
George William Biggs – Susan Keenan
Bantry Witness Statements from the Bureau of Military History 1913-21 – Sean Kelly
Dereenalomane Barytes Mine – Eugene McSweeney
Vickery’s Hotel – Hazel Vickery

Contents:
Uneasy Times for the RIC at Bantry – Seán Fitzgerald
The Whiddy Island Seaplane Base – Donal Fitzgerald
Whiddy Oil Bonanza in 1917 – Cork Examiner
The Sisters of Mercy in Bantry – Jennie McCarthy
The Iconography of Medieval Irish Art – Colm Hourihan
The Direeney Drowning – Anon
The Whites of Bantry: Family Origins – Seamus Crowley
The Revenge of Donal Cam – J.J. Calanan
Steam and Steel in Bantry – Seán Kelly
Biggs Boat of Coal (1918) – Anon
The Tithe Struggle in Beara and Bantry – Richard S. Harrison
The Life and Work of Francis O’Neill – Nora Cremin
Townland Names and their Meanings – Donal Fitzgerald
Mining in the Kilcrohane Area – Frank O’Mahony

Contents:
The Abbey: Bantry’s Franciscan Friary – Seamus Crowley
Technology of Yesteryear – Sean Kelly
The Statue of Our Lady of the Beach – Barbara Willis
Kilcrohane and the Holy Ground – Frank O’Mahony
The Priest’s Leap – T.D. Sullivan
Rural settlement near Bantry 1600-1845 – Kevin Hourihan
Wolfe Tone and Bantry Bay – Sean Fitzgerald
The Mason and his Craft in Medieval Ireland – Colm Hourihan
The Roses of Scart Baun – Barbara Willis
Education in 19th Century Bantry – Jennie McCarthy
The Famine in Bantry – Donal Fitzgerald

Contents:
‘William O’Sullivan Esq., Carriganass Castle, Kealkill’ by Patrick Crowley
‘Garryvurcha Church, Church Road, Bantry’ byHazel Vickery
‘A Mealagh Man’ by Seamus O’Shea
‘Growing up in Bantry in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century’ by Margaret Connolly
‘The Vice-Guardians of Bantry Union: a Call for Recognition’ by Geraldine Powell
‘The Shooting of William Simms Bird’ by Sean Fitzgerald
‘What makes a great Irish street?’ by Kevin Hourihan
‘The life of Edith Newman Devlin Woman of Letters’ by Sean Kelly