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The Luftwaffe pilot who crash-landed into County Wexford during WWII. He was interned and later repatriated, but escaped from East Germany to return to Ireland.
George Harrison’s grandad: the hotel barman from Wexford who married the Merseyside hotel maid.
A Bridge Too Far for a Bridgetown man. He was the oldest surviving Irish citizen of the Battle of Arnhem.
How 30-year-old Kennedy, in the company of Pamela Churchill, drove the roads of County Wexford in 1947 in search of his ancestral home.
Young Ferns man shot dead by intoxicated RIC constable in pub row.
How plans to build Ireland’s first nuclear power plant at Carnsore were scuppered.
The United Irishmen who plotted rebellion in Newbawn as well as in Newfoundland, where eight were hanged.
De Valera’s anti-Treaty campaign in Enniscorthy and Wexford to counter Collins’ pro-Treaty visit a week earlier.
Murders, massacres, tragedies and much, much more…
‘Des Kiely gathers nuggets of Wexford history…a lost letter, a piece of antiquity, a crumpled photograph, a story… and creates a grand tapestry’ Wally O’Neill, Red Books
