Two recently publish journals add greatly to the history of County Kildare and the neighbouring West Wicklow. The latest Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. XXV, 2024-2025, was published in October, and the Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society, No. 13, 2024-2027, was published in November.
Both can be purchased through their respective society website:
County Kildare Archaeological Society
https://www.kildarearchsoc.ie
West Wicklow Historical Society
http://westwicklowhistoricalsociety.ie
Liam Kenny, the PRO of the County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups, has kindly provided the following table of contents for both journals.
| Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society Vol. XXV 2024-2025 | ||
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| Author | Title | Outline |
| Shiels, Melissa | The Fair Geraldine and the Tudor court: proximity, persuasion and presents | Elizabeth Fitzgerald Clinton (1527-1603), intermediary between the Fitzgeralds and the Elizabethan Court |
| Wyse, Brendan | Territory & topography in the Kildare & Offaly Border region | Recreating the ancient communities of the Bog of Allen through early maps and documents |
| Stifter, David | The Donaghmore Ogham Stone | Analysis using digital techniques of the lettering of the Donaghmore Ogam stone |
| Crampton, Cora | Three women of the O’Byrnes: insights into the social & political world of 16th century Gaelic Ireland | A study of the historical imprint of Sadhbh O’Byrne, Margaret O’Byrne, and Sadhbh Kavanagh, 16th c. Wicklow. |
| McCabe, Brian | The vanished Flatsburys | A detailed tracing of the Flatsbury family in Co Kildare 1286-1645 – after which time the name disappears from Irish history |
| Corry, Eoghan | Census & sensibility: a population history of Kildare | The fall and rise of Co Kildare’s population in town and country 19th c to 21st c based on examination of the decennial official census. |
| Kenny, Liam | “Troops … don’t behave like clerics”: Carton House, Maynooth and wartime, 1941-43 | Carton House as HQ of the war-time Irish Army’s 2nd Division under the command of Maj. Gen Hugo McNeill |
| Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society, No. 13, 2024-2027 | ||
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| No. 13 | 2024-2027 | |
| Author | Title | Outline |
| Murphy, Margaret | The Baltinglass Area in the Medieval Period c.400 AD to 1580 | Document the changes in the Baltinglass area across 1,100 years including Christianity, the Viking raids, the Black Death, the Reformation and the 16th c rebellions. |
| Lennon, Richard B. | Diarmuid Ó Muineacháin and Michael Hargadon: two early 20th c. poets with a Baltinglass connection | Account of the Baltinglass links of the Irish language-poet D. Ó Muineacháin and the poet-journalist M. Hargadon, both early 20th c. |
| Kenny, Liam | ‘The peace of the historic Glen was much disturbed’ | The founding of the Glen of Imaal firing range 1899 and the first Irish Army artillery shoot 1925. |
| Crampton, Cora | The transformation of warfare in 16th century Ireland: the case of the lordship of Feach McHugh O’Byrne | Investigation of how Gaelic warfare was adapted and transformed during the 16th century as illustrated by the military prowess of Feach McHugh O’Byrne, west Wicklow. |
| O’Brien, John | The rotten borough of Harristown: 1681-1800 | Exploration of how a rural manor was incorporated as a borough and became a base for the political ambitions of the Eustace family, Co Kildare. |
| Corrigan, Brendan | “What’s in a name’ – Lemonstown Motte | An examination of shifting boundaries and land tenures on the Wicklow/Kildare border 1260-1760 |
| Kelly, Mairead | A sociological interpretation of the Hillfort Capital: Rathcoran, Rathnagree & Sruhan. Part 2 of 3. | Recreating society among the three Baltinglass hill-forts from the early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age |
| Glennon, John | The Hollywood Shamrocks and the early years of the GAA in west Wicklow. | An account of early GAA activity in the Hollywood area as reported through the Leinster Leader newspaper 1887-89. |
| Roddy, Ita | Rivers of time | Tracing the courses of the Toor stream and the Greese River on the Wicklow/Kildare border |
| Keenan, Declan | Military Power of Gaelic and Gaelicised Magnates during the mid-16th century | Analysis of the document ‘A description of the power of Irishmen’ to quantify the military strength of the Irish clans |
| Lawlor, Chris | We’re true United Irishmen; we’ll fight until we die’: a bicentennial evaluation of Michael Dwyer’s guerilla campaign in the Wicklow Mountains and its legacy.” | An assessment of Michael Dwyer’s tactical prowess in the bicentenary year of his death – 1825. |