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In the Path of Heroes
by Gerard Harrington
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| Beara
and its people have a long and varied history. Unless we know and
understand the past we cannot appreciate the present, nor anticipate the
future. Local history is not only interesting and important in itself,
it also contributes to our sense of identity and it is the basis of
national history. The following stories about our area and the lives of its people are not so much founded in fact as in fact true. Several have appeared in print in the Southern Star, the Cork Holly Bough and the Irish Post in the 1960s-70s. The events are in each case related either as they actually occurred, or with a very slight dramatisation and infusion of contemporaneous colour. My object generally has been to signpost the way for the reader to a deeper and more sympathetic understanding of the people and events of recent centuries that, not alone have shaped the present day Beara, but have also contributed to the emergence of modern Ireland. Gerard Harrington. |
