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Ep 93---

Historian and author Paul Connolly joins Carlo for what turned into a proper local history lesson.

It starts with a ruin across the road from his national school in Mount Talbot, and a teacher named Sonny Cronin who had his pupils naming spring flowers in Latin and Irish decades before anyone used the word biodiversity. It goes on through sixteen years of senior hurling, and the void that opens when the matches stop.

Then there is the day that changed everything. Paul took a day off work, drove to Boyle, walked into King House and introduced himself to Tommy Egan. Three or four hours later he drove back to Galway with a whole book formed in his head.

In this conversation: the night Rockingham burned in 1957 and the local people who saved what furniture they could. Why King House is standing today and Moat Park is not. The Quakers of Frybrook who fed the starving from their own kitchen. Castle Island, the McDermotts, and the castle Yeats never built. Why the gate lodges survived when the mansions did not.

And a question worth sitting with. We are the most photographed generation who ever lived, and we may be the one that leaves the least behind.

Check out the full blog post for this episode - https://www.voicesofboyle.com/paulconnolly

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Thanks to Brendan O' Dowd for creating and recording the musical piece for the podcast.