Author and local historian
Historical Fiction
"Growing up with Kingstown - a Tale of Old Dun Laoghaire"
History
"Victorian Dun Laoghaire - A Town Divided"
Dun Laoghaire - My new book - fiction
My new book is set in the 1820s and 1830s when the town was being built. The underlying story is very heavily intertwined with the real historical events and the hero, Willie, encounters many of the actual citizens. https://t.co/dkZZfDGVIh
@MiriFitz@MerriganMl My usual response to this type of query is to say that Kingstown and Monkstown were only marginally affected by the famine of 1845-7. Instead, they suffered hugely in the cholera epidemic of 1866. There are extensive records of charitable donations to charities for own for relief