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The Other Side | The Price of Progress
By Cormac MacConnell November 1991
The Harvest is taken home, leaving the naked lands behind to blanch slowly in the closing fist of winter. One of the new sights in Connacht this year is the clingwrapped hay. The farmers are not making cocks and ricks any more. Many haysheds are empty. The new trend is the clingwrapped bales. For a while, in the autumn, they were scattered through the meadows like giant black … [Read more...] about The Other Side | The Price of Progress
Roots: O’Byrne and O’Beirne
By James G. Ryan October 1991
The names O'Byrne and O'Beirne (or Byrne and Beire) often regarded as variants of the same root, are, in fact, totally different. O'Byrne is derived from the Gaelic O'Broin meaning "descended from Bran," the 11th century King of Leinster. The O'Byrnes were chieftains of what is now County Kildare until the Norman invasion when they were driven from their lands into the … [Read more...] about Roots: O’Byrne and O’Beirne
A Day in the Life of Ireland
By Irish America Staff October 1991
In May of this year, a group of of some 75 photographers from around the world traveled to Ireland. They focused their lenses on the people of Ireland, spanning the island from the Glens of Antrim to the Ring of Kerry, shooting more than 5,000 rolls of film-180,000 photographs in the course of a single 24-hour time period. Of the thousands of photographs taken on that day, 225 … [Read more...] about A Day in the Life of Ireland
