pickThis is an excellent, well researched study of Cumann na mBan, the women's auxiliary volunteer group, and their role in the Irish uprising. It's a little dry, but that's the nature of a thorough academic study. It gives a real sense of how chaotic and disorganised the war of independence was, and the bitter divisions that followed in the Civil War.
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She [Clair's mother] has built her sense of herself through these stories and at this stage - she's over ninety... questions aren't helpful. I ask them anyway, my sceptical, disenchanting questions. I go further and I actually check facts... Sometimes I come back to her with evidence that proves that what she remembers or what she heard can't have happened that way. She is never pleased about this. Yet she keeps feeding me stories.
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pickBook #18 of 2025: “Clare Folk Tales” from Ruth Marshall
It‘s nice to have an easy, fun book every now and then! I liked this little collection of folk tales specifically about County Clare in Ireland. It‘s very well researched but without being academic.
