Lest We Forget by Art Kavanagh

To purchase this book please email your request to lestweforget@bunclody.net

A book about Bunclody and it's people.

  - Retail €49.90 Hardcover, Dust Jacket.
Book Size: 30cm x 21cm Over 300 photographs.

Following the success of earlier books in the popular “Landed Gentry & Aristocracy” series we are delighted to announce the launch of Art Kavanagh’s latest book, “Lest We Forget”.

Art Kavanagh’s latest book is a Who’s Who of everybody who lived in the greater Bunclody area in the 1940s and 1950s, including Kildavin, Clonegal and Myshall (on the Carlow side). The book is a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of detail about numerous families and individuals. The families include the Handricks, Mahons, Kellys, Hughes, Creans, Codds, Kehoes, Meylers, Byrnes, Walshes, Perrys, Hall-Dares, Booths, Cannings, Cahills, Redmonds, Robertsons, Breens Barrys, Roberts, Murphys, Bennetts, Levinges, Skrines, Staceys, Keoghs, Furlongs, Longs, Deanes, Lennons, Moorheads, Nolans, Walkers, Cowmans, McDonalds, Kavanaghs, Mulrennans, Walls, Rothwells, Deacons, Doyles, O’Briens, Connors and O’Connors.

There are succinct articles about many individuals including Nicky Rackard, Rory Murphy, Michael Deane, John Booth, Liam Conway, Larry Kinsella, Michael John Flannery, Seosamh F. O’Cuinneagain, Bobby Hall-Dare, Mickey Rooney, Canon Wadding, Ned Bond, Mattie Kinsella, Lt. James Ryan, Captain Rothwell, Anthony Ryan, and Tim Sinnott.

There are details about some of the very outstanding people who have contributed to the development and fame of Bunclody in the past half a century. These include Liam Roberts (famous artist), Kevin Whelan (famous academic), Molly Keane (Mary Skrine – the prolific writer), An tAthair S. De Vál (eminent historian) and community builders Rev. Fr. Aidan Jones, Derek Nally and Gearoid Grant.

The book has over 300 photographs some of them very rare and unusual.  

To purchase this book please email your request to lestweforget@bunclody.net