Dear Old Ballina.
Author: REILLY, Terry.
Ballina: Terry Reilly, 1993. 442 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
A substantial local history of this County Mayo seaside town, which is situated on the estuary of the River Moy, and is the cathedral town of the Catholic diocese of Killala.
Contents
1 Going Back 5,000 years
2 Town Founded
3 Four Maols
4 The Abbey, St Patrick and the Leac Finn
5 Slaughter of the Scots
6 The Churches
7 Fairs and Markets
8 French Invasion
9 Gunner McGee’s Cannon
10 North Mayo Militia
11 Newspapers by the Ream
12 History of Moy Fishery Ownership
13 Shipwrecks and Loss of Life
14 The Moy, Source of Prosperity
15 Rack Rents and Food Riots
16 The Belleek Estate
17 Cholera Strikes Terror
18 The Hams of Ham Bridge
19 Fr Mathew’s Temperance Crusade
20 Fr Smyth: Peacemaker at Eureka Stockade
21 General William Joyce Sewell
22 The Dreaded Workhouse
23 Champion of the Poor
24 Town Commissioners and Urban Council
25 Contract Rates in 1845
26 The Famine—And Destruction
27 Working for Six Old Pennies a Day!
28 And Then the Fuel Famine
29 Seats of Learning
30 Claimed He Executed Robert Emmett!
31 Town Gas and Light
32 The Coming of the Railway
33 Water—And Fire
34 A Hive of Industry
35 Buckshot and Fixed Bayonets
36 Stirring Parnellite Rallies
37 Down Memory Lanes
38 Sequah, the “Prince of Healers”
39 Humbert Memorial Monument
40 Off to The Great War
41 Fight For Independence
42 The Civil War
43 Banks and Hotels
44 Getting the Connection
45 New Sewerage System
46 The Bishops of Killala
47 Ballina’s Days of Terror
48 Second World War & Emergency
49 1947—The Year of the Big Snow
50 Irish Scholar was Native of Ballina
51 The Amazing Feats of Lough Conn
52 The Rosary Rally of 1954
53 Local Folklore
54 Placenames & Their Meaning
55 President Mary Robinson
ISBN: 0952093006
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