Fascinating Wexford History Volume 3

This third volume includes the truly fascinating account of a Nazi spy, carrying top secret equipment, who was parachuted into the county.

A Killanne woman hanged in London for killing her employer in 1879 and dismembering the body. The victim’s skull was found in 2010 on property owned by Sir David Attenborough.

A house near Oylegate owned by the Power Whiskey family, later occupied by a Benedictine WWI refugee monk, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000.

The last public hanging in Ireland was of a Wexfordman accused of bludgeoning to death a school principal in Rathgarogue.

Stirring speeches by national icons Daniel O’Connell in Enniscorthy and Michael Collins in Wexford.

The story of the county’s railways and how Brunel’s plan was to bypass Wexford town.

The flu pandemic of 1918-19 that left over 500 dead in Wexford.

The Wexford matron of a hospital in post-war Normandy, where Samuel Beckett acted as interpreter, storekeeper and driver.

'Des Kiely continues to play an invaluable role in chronicling the mosaic of our past that is truly fascinating' Brendan Howlin, TD