Thomas Nelson's 'Through peace and war. Kildare Co. Council in the years of revolution 1899-1926'
Co. Kildare's Decade of Commemoration officially kicked off with the launch of Thomas Nelson's 'Through peace and war. Kildare Co. Council in the years of revolution 1899-1926' in Aras Cill Dara at 12.30 on Monday 19 October 2015.
The ceremony included speeches by Mayor of County Kildare, Cllr. Brendan Weld, Cllr Fiona O'Loughlin Kildare County Council, Chief Executive Peter Carey, Mario Corrigan of the Local Studies Department of the County Kildare Library and Arts Service, as well as Thomas Nellson himself.
According to Thomas:
'The members and electors of the first Kildare County Council of 1899 were confidently preparing for a Home Rule Ireland, securely within the British Empire, and with a Parliament in College Green. A quarter of a century later the Ireland they lived in was entirely different to what they had looked forward to. This is the story of how the council conducted local government in Kildare, from the peaceful revolution at its beginning, through the trauma of the Great War, the Easter rising and the subsequent conflict and civil strife, to emerge in a partitioned Ireland in the 1920s which they had never envisaged.'
Photo: Thomas Nelson at the launch of his book'Through peace and war. Kildare Co. Council in the years of revolution 1899-1926' in Aras Cill Dara on Monday 19 October 2015.
Photo credit: Seán Sourke
