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Laois Heritage Society are presenting the next in the line-up of their Spring talks, ‘New Perspectives on the Great Famine in County Laois’ by Dr. C. ....
A 700-year-old Irish hereditary title ended with the death of the last Knight of Glin in County Limerick. The ancient Irish noble title was handed down by chieftains and has been recognized by successive Irish governments. ....
In his brilliant 2005 memoir Booking Passage, Irish-American poet Thomas Lynch included the sub-plot of an epic battle he had to fight on behalf of elderly relatives in West Clare to establish ownership of their own farm. Possession of the 28 acres had never been in doubt until 1968 when Nora Lynch and her brother Tommy, aged 65 and 67 respectively, tried to sell it. Then it became known that the Irish Land Commission, for reasons unspecified, had prohibited any transaction. And with this stroke of a bureaucratâs pen, the siblings never regained control of the land again in their lifetimes. As Thomas Lynch wrote: âThe entry was made by a nameless Dublin clerk at the instruction, no doubt, of somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody else who, for reasons we might never know, had an agenda at odds with Tommy and Nora[âs].â ....