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Flying Column: West Kilkenny
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By: Jim Maher
Publisher: Geography Publications
Published: November 1997
Pages: 332
Categories: Earth Sciences
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780906602089
ASIN: 0906602084

The new title is an acknowledgement that much of the action described in the book took place within sight of the storied mountain. It is a much bigger book with some 340 pages compared to 210 in the earlier publication, and there are 150 illustrations many of which have never been published previously. New material has been added and chapters dealing with 1916 in Kilkenny and the famous by-election of 1917, in which W. T. Cosgrave won a key victory for Sinn Féin over John Magennis of the Irish Party, give a national context to the story. Many of the principal players, such as Roger Casement, Thomas MacDonagh, Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz and Cathal Brugha, are linked to Kilkenny in these revolutionary years. There are also important new chapters on the role of the Kilkenny People newspaper and its editor, E.T. Keane, in articulating nationalist opinion post 1916, the beginnings of Sinn Féin in Thomastown, and a list with biographical details of all those connected with County Kilkenny who lost their lives in 1916 and the War of Independence. The detailed accounts of the military engagements of the Flying Columns with British forces, at Hugginstown, Ninemilehouse, Friary Street, Garryricken and Knocknagress, remain as the core of the book.

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