Description
Sharing Our Stories – Vol. 1 Connecting the Dots
By Vincent English, Achill Heritage Centre / Ionad Oidhreachta Acla
A collection of Achill stories, poems, history, folklore and old sayings from long ago.
Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Mary J. Murphy
- Acknowledgements
- The Franciscan Monastery
- Heritage
- Tommie the Yank
- Folklore, Fairies & Pisreogs
- Achill’s Blessing
- Our Ancestral Homes
- A Fighting Heart
- Fighting Heart
- Ode to Johnny Kilbane
- The Achill Woman
- The Legacy of Beatrice (Bridget) Butler nee English
- Bunnacurry, Boston and the Western Wall
- Mary Cleary – A Proud Achill Woman
- William Pike
- The Story of Baile na hAilte
- The Lynchehan Family
- Burnt Stick – Gallagher family overview
- The Bogmen
- The Achill Woman’s Lament
- The Tatie Hokers
- Patrick and Margaret – From Achill to Cleveland
- John Lineen
- A Postcard from Dugort
- My Island Home
- My Grandmother, Marie Sweeney
- Telling Tales of Achill
- Monastery and Colony
- Family Fortunes
- German Baroness who danced with Dev
- Achill – Where Art, Heritage and Friendship Meet
- Quarantine
- Gubnahardia, Currane
- My Ma, Bridget Moran Calvey
- Margaret Toolis 1871 – 1945
- Boycott
- Quotes
- Irish Phrases
- Old Achill Sayings
