Item category 1: Donegal Studies

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Readers follow contemporaneous accounts of Irish men and women who ventured into the Russian empire during the long centuries of Romanov rule. These are the stories of Irish residents,...

Published by Hero Books, it tells the story of the rise of Donegal’s first All-Ireland captain but also the ‘painful descent’ suffered by the Ardara man after winning the Sam Maguire Cup in 1992.The book is co-written by well-known Donegal News sports reporter, Frank Craig, with a foreword by bot...

Aosdána was founded in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an invaluable contribution to the arts in Ireland and to assist members in devoting their energies full time to their artistic practice. The succeeding pages tell the History of Aosdána and how it was founded. With members across t...

April and her mother have been housed in temporary accommodation. Promised a brighter future by her mother, April finds her life there to be filled with things that are old, broken and impersonal. She longs for her own things and for some beauty in her life but experiences only frustration and di...