Number 41. 1989. €20.00
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From Donegal to Rome by Foot, Boat, Coach and Horseback by Tomás Ó Fiaich 3
Gaelic Women’s Responses to the Elizabethan Settlement of Ireland by James Doan 20
A Civic Guard's Memories of ’22 by Patrick McInerney 28
Inishowen Heritage Centre and Folk Museum, Bridge St. Carndonagh by Mary Gillen 31
The Penalty for the Eight Capital Sins by Brian Bonner 33
Two Donegal Battles by Kitty McGeehan 39
La Trinidad Valencera; An Armada Wreck in O’Doherty’s Country by Fr. Michael Keaveney 46
The Spanish Monk's Grave. Who could this be? by Dr. Geraldine Carville 51
The Grianán of Aileach by Etienne Rynne 54
Poverty, Famine and the Workhouse at Ballyshannon by Anthony Begley 57
Cavanacor House, Lifford and President Polk’s Ancestors by Eddie O'Kane 72
St. Connell's Museum and Heritage Centre, Glenties by Danny Boyle 75
A Man for his Season – Bishop Neil Farren of Derry 1939-1973 by Rev. Bernard J. Canning 77
Folk Poetry of the Laggan 1750-1830 by J.R.R. Adams 84
Susanna Marie Brooks: her family: the Brooks and Lough Eske Castle by Mowenna Donnelly 89
Archaeological and Historical Survey Group 94
Lector O'Friel and Doon Well by Fr. John Fitzgerald 95
Aodh Rua O Domhnaill and his Mission to Spain 1602 by Micheline Kerney Walsh 96
Harley-McDonagh Competition Report by Arthur Lemmon 123
In Retrospect 1989 by C.A. King 125
Carne Graveyard, Pettigo, Co. Donegal by Rev. P. Ó Gallachair, P. Slevin & J. Cunningham 135
Donegal Local Studies 156
Book Reviews 159
Annual Report and Proceedings 164
Our Society’s Museum Report 167
Officers and Membership 168