Number 13 2019. €10.00
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The War of Independence archive of Tom Ryan by William Murphy 8
Bennettsbridge Garda barracks by Phelim Manning 53
Private Michael Doyle, 2nd battalion Irish Guards by Kevin Kelly 65
Dungarvan old graveyard, county Kilkenny by Mary Casteleyn and Bernie Kirwan 71
Some records of the corporation of Knocktopher by Hugh Langrishe 94
My first visit to Kilfane House by Eddie Cody 97
Mildred Anne Butler's crow paintings by Tom Duffy 98
‘Keep your receipts’ by Mary Cassin 112
The oral history of the Kirwans of Lower Grange, Goresbridge. Does it mirror the documentary sources? by John Kirwan 118
Compensation claims in county Kilkenny for damage done during the Civil War by Michael O'Dwyer 131
I was a Sixties' ‘WAG' by Joan Cleere 138
St Mary's Thomastown: the twentieth century by Joe Doyle 148
Tennis in Knocktopher by Michael O'Dwyer 159
‘All gave some – Some gave all'. Thomastown and Tullaherin in World War One by Berni Egan 161
The political career of Henry Flood of Farmley by Will Murphy 171
The effects of the ‘Emergency’ on Bennettsbridge and surrounding areas by Peggy Walpole 177
Handball – A game for all. Kilfane Handball Club 1918-2018 by Michael Holden 184
The sale of Snowhill House and demesne, 1921 by Michael O'Dwyer 191
The pipe organ in Thomastown parish church, 1876-2016 by Derek Verso 195