Number 45. 1997. €15.00
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Clonegal. Before, during and after the 1798 Rising compiled by W.D. White 5
Contentious County Carlow Land Surveyors by Edward J Law 8
Across the (Barrow) River and into the Desert by Martin J. Lynch 10
Sir John Macneill's Chosen Successor: Bagenalstown Man, Samuel Downing by Dr. Norman McMillan 13
Father John Murphy and his faithful companion, John Gallagher 16
Croppy Grave Honoured 18
Part of the Roll of the 1st. Carlow Cavalry from December 1796 - January 1797 and part from December 1797 - May 1798 by Tommy Clarke 20
Maurice Kavanagh Warrant drawn 18th July 1799 21
Sir Edward Crosbie of Viewmount Remembered by Anne Parker-Byrne 23
From Carlow to the Russian Front by John Stieber 24
St Mullins during the famine Years by Frank Clarke 29
James Nolan of Knockindrane (c.1746-1858) Captain of the Myshall Rebels 1798 by Brother P.J. Kavanagh 34
Fr. Mogue Kearns (A Rebel Priest in 1798) by Myles Kavanagh 38
Carlovians who served as Chaplains in the Defence forces 1922-1997 42
Secretary's Report & From the Chair 43
Memorials to the Men of 1798 compiled by William Ellis 44
Distinguished Members of a Carlow Family from Orchard, Leighlinbridge 46
Noblesse Oblige - Ducit A-Mor Patria 48
Carlow man who would not give into the Reds, so he died 50
The Life and Sad Death of Carlow M.P John Sadleir 1813-1856 by John F. Scott 51
Megalithic Dawn over Blackstairs Mountains by Joseph M. Feeley & Roger Jones 57
Carlow College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) by Rev. Dermot McKenna 60
United Ireland? by Rev. Jack Drennan 63
The First Irish President by E. Kinsella 66
Ancient Jewellery in Carlow by Sean Cawley 68
John Ryan, Polemicist and Local Historian by Thomas King 71
Carlovians in the Great War by Paul Maguire 74
Jackson Collection by Dermot Mulligan 76
A Carlow - descendent who added to the World's History one of its Decisive Battles. An Irish American Hero in the American Revolution by Prof. Garrett Bolger 77
Croppies Grave, May 1997. Oration by Rory Murphy 79
The last of the great British eccentric explorers - Sir Wilfred Thesiger - and the Carlow connection E.L. Gavin 82
Hector Tyndale, Carlow's Association with the American Civil War and the return
of John Brown's body to his wife by Martin Nevin 84
St. Mullins - 1798 by St. Mullins Muintir na Tire 87
Ballymurphy by Tom Doran 89
A Letter to a Castledermot Emigrant by Michael J. Wall 91
Carlovians deported to Australia in 1798 92