Article from the Grange Parish Book suggested for reading this week (week 37)
It's a Long Way from Grange - by Michael Barry From Grange to New York - an Interview with Joe Hourigan This week (week 37) we feature two book articles about the experiences of two Grange men working abroad. It is rather a pity that the Grange book contained just a few articles about Grange people who left home to take up employment overseas or to pursue their vocations in life. We published all of the accounts that were available up to the time of the book finalisation in l
Article from the Grange Parish Book suggested for reading this week (week 36)
Folklore Collection 1988-1989 The Lough Gur & District Historical Society Journal, No 7 (1991) was a “Special Folklore Edition”. As Michael J Quinlan, Editor, Lough Gur & District Historical Society, explained in his editorial to the Special Edition, the edition contained extracts from the work of 32 contributors, taken from taped material from 98 contributors which the 1988 folklore project yielded. Many Grange people were among the 98 contributors. The tales by some of thos
Article from the Grange Parish Book suggested for reading this week (week 35)
The National Folklore Collection - Grange National School The suggested book article for reading last week (week 34) was Thomas Lynch, NT - Folklorist. This week (week 35) we continue with the folklore theme and suggest the book article The National Folklore Collection - Grange National School, written by Dan Conway (RIP). The book contains a trilogy of articles with the folklore theme, and we will suggest the third article next week (week 36). In his introduction, Dan Conway
Article from the Grange Parish Book suggested for reading this week (week 34)
Thomas Lynch, NT - Folklorist This week's (week 34) featured book article is about is about Thomas Lynch, National Teacher at Grange School, with a particular emphasis on his renown as a folklorist. The article was introduced by Sheila Fitzgerald (retired NT) - Sheila and Master Lynch were teacher colleagues at Grange NS until the school closed its doors to pupils in July 1967. Thomas Lynch retired then, and Sheila Fitzgerald went on to continue her teaching career at Bruff N
