The Clare Anthology
Author: SHEEDY, Kieran (Editor)
Ennis: Clasp Press, 1999. 243 pages. Hardback.
The Clare Anthology ia a selection of prose and verse by native Clare writers and visitors to the county. A mixture of fact and fiction, the material covers aspects of the county’s past including sport, folklore, politics and romance. The diversity of authors and subject matter produces a lively and engaging picture of the daily life and special occurrences which helped to shape County Clare and its people.
CONTENTS
A Curious Combination
The Warrior Carty, Eddie Stack
Reminiscences of a country boy, George O’Donnell
The Sheriff and the Executioner
A mysterious birth in Ennistymon
Spancilhill, Michael Considine
Tale of the teapots, James O’Gorman
Haymaking in the twenties, Kieran Lillis
A personal journey, Fr Harry Bohan
The motor car comes to Clare, Sean Marrinan
‘Sive’ at Scariff, Kieran Sheedy
The unmarried daughter, Patrick Hogan
A town I know so well, Brian Dinan
THAR LEAR
The Widow Mullarkey’s Gwendoline, Georgina O’Brien
John Philip Holland, Breandan Higgins
How ‘The Sharper’ came to be performed, Michael Clancy
The ‘Mad Poet’ and the poetry-smitten widow
Paddy Hannan from Quin, Michael MacMahon
Fontenoy, 1745, Emily Lawless
Letter from Spain, Daniel Huony
The life of Thomas Dermody, James Grant Raymond
WHERE IS ALL THIS TO END?
The 1828 by-election, Richard Lalor Sheil
The representation of Ennis
An culra, Stiofan O hEalaoire
Day of decision, Kevin J. Browne
The ambush at Rineen, Tom Lenihan
The nun who hid guns, Meda Ryan
The last days of the O’Gorman Mahon, T. P. O’Connor
The Iceman cometh, Micheal O hAodha
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BREAK
Lisdoonvarna, Christy Moore
Michael Cusack, W. F. Mandle
Hurling in Barefield, Michael Cusack
The bog road, Francis A, Fahy
Inter-country rivalry at Castleconnell Regatta, Thomas Lacey
Original elegy on a country alehouse, Thomas Dermody
Wild sports, John Bickerdyke
An cruiscin lan
Ennis carnival
On the evils of drink, Edward McLysaght
‘Up Clare!.’ Champions at last
Lemons on a Saturday night
‘Nobody said it was going to be easy’, Austin Hobbs
The Clare Hounds
The races of Ballycoree, Ram Rusti the Younger
Lament for Dr Tommy Daly, Bryan MacMahon
Heroics by O Looney at the races, Brian O Looney
RELICS OF OULD DACENCY
Two flamboyant fathers, Nicolette Devas
Dromoland Castle: the end of an era, Grainne R. O’Brien
Thalassa, Mary Francis McHugh
The Granahan Hunt, Nicholas Woulfe
A fatal duel
HISTORICAL SKETCHES
The Spanish Armada in Clare, Niall Fallon
Maire Rua’s last will
Where, O Kincora?, James Clarence Mangan
Eugene O’Curry, Noel Crowley
Of the Parish of Moyarta, Eugene O’Curry
Shannon departures, Bernard Share
The blind piper of Inagh, Ciaran MacMathuna
Shipwrecks at Kilkee, W. R. Le Fanu
A Clare seanchaidhe, Seamus O Duilearga
Harnessing the River Shannon
Letter to the editor, Christmas 1846, Fr John Sheehan
A great Clare clown, Kevin J. Browne
LOVE AND LONGING
Cuirt an Mhean Oiche, Brian Merriman
Michael Joe, William Cotter Murray
Ar phosadh Isibeal, Aodh Buidhe MacCruitin
Drownings at Moveen Bay, Mary John Knott
The man from Clare, John B. Keane
You tell me that you love me not, Stephen J. Meany
An innocent abroad, Michael Clancy
Maidin aoibhinn omrach
Lunch with Mr Gentleman, Edna O’Brien
OTHERWORLD
The ghost of Hag’s Head, John Atkins
The man with the three stories, Seamus O Duilearga
A death legend, Maire MacNeill
The man who sold his horse in Tir na nOg, Edmund Lenihan
Biddy Early, Kieran Sheedy
IN SEARCH OF CLARE
A visit to Kilfenora in 1821, George Petrie
Looking for Dykie Fitz, Frank O’Connor
The Irish countryman, Conrad M. Arensberg
Swift in Sixmilebridge, Joseph McMinn
The cholera in Kilrush, W. J. Fitzpatrick
In search of traditional music, Capt. Francis O’Neill
Percy French vs The West Clare Railway
‘Are ye right there, Michael?’, Percy French
Do you think you’ll like the wind?, Paul Murphy
Ennis to Aranmore, Rosita Boland
The Willie Clancy Summer School, Niall Williams & Christine Breen
Waiting for the boat, Gerald Griffin
ISBN: 1900545
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