http://myirishbooks.com Irish History Books by Art Kavanagh Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:05:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Art Kavanagh :: William Hayes   William Smyth writing in Tipperary History & Society said of the Cromwellian Adventurers and Soldiers who got lands in Tipperary ‘They came with notions of exploitation and of gaining wealth; they belonged to a growing commercial nation and they were to leave a deep impression on the ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-tipperary-gentry Turtle Bunbury  The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Country Wicklow by Turtle Bunbury - Retail €€49.90 Hardcover, Dust Jacket. We all of us descend from men and women whose names we will never know. Until recent centuries, every generation simply came and fell like fields of wheat. When one contemplates the extraordinary ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-and-aristocracy-of-country-wicklow Art Kavanagh :: Turtle Bunbury  Turtle Bunbury’s debut book, “The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Kildare”, offers a unique and lively historical insight into eighteen of Co. Kildare’s most influential “big house” families. The book features fifty illustrations and covers more than a thousand years of Irish history. The families profiled ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-and-aristocracy-of-co-kildare Turtle Bunbury loves writing about the aristocracy; recently, he chronicled the great landowning families of Co Kildare in amazing detail. Now, his next book is being printed, ready for publication in December. The new book will be called "The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of County Wicklow" and it will be priced at EUR35 (direct ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-and-aristocracy-of-country-wicklow-irelands-antiques-period-properties-november-2005 “Fortgranite calling!” – Carlow Nationalist, Wednesday November 16th 2005 by William Paterson  Ireland’s first amateur radio transmitter was built by a Colonel Meade Dennis at his Fortgranite home near Baltinglass and who went on to establish contact with a radio amateur in Australia. It was all done with a chip of crystal (lead ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-and-aristocracy-of-country-wicklow-review-by-carlow-nationalist-wednesday-november-16th-2005 Leinster Leader – December 2004 NEW BOOK TELLS STORY OF ARISTOCRACY OF KILDARE  Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, was an, if not the, appropriate venue for launch of a new book on the history of Kildare. The house once owned by one of Ireland’s richest men, Speaker Connolly, hosted the publication of a ... http://myirishbooks.com/leinster-leader-%e2%80%93-december-2004-review The Kildare Times – January 2005 Greatest Kildarian Ever In the wake of the BBC’s successful hunt for the “Greatest Briton” ever – Churchill, incidentally – I would like to initiate a quest for the “Greatest Kildarian” of all time. My own six nominees all have one thing in common. They all ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-aristocracy-of-co-kildare-the-kildare-times-review-%e2%80%93-january-2005 The Irish Times – August 2005 Richard Roche – Local History Previous volumes in the Gentry series initiated by Art Kavanagh and the late Rory Murphy of Bunclody included histories of the “gentry” (ie: landed proprietors as well as the older, truer aristocracy) of Wexford, Tipperary and Kilkenny and the publishers promise ... http://myirishbooks.com/the-landed-gentry-aristocracy-of-co-kildare-reviews NEW BOOK TELLS STORY OF ARISTOCRACY OF KILDARE  [This] book about the aristocracy and landed gentry of County Kildare seems to tell the story of an effete tribe indeed. However many of the histories deserve narrating, and Turtle Bunbury unearths an amazing amount of information about the families concerned. The story ... http://myirishbooks.com/kildare-gentry-books-ireland-summer-2005-by-hugh-oram William Hayes is a noted Tipperary historian based in Roscrea in Co. Tipperary. A former teacher who worked in the U.K and Australia, Willie, as he is known, was the person most instrumental in compiling and editing the massive 3 volume work on Templetuohy. He was also the man responsible ... http://myirishbooks.com/william-hayes