New ‘Essays From Roscrea’ book features stunning art by Mary Arrigan
‘Essays From Roscrea’ will be launched by John Lupton
The new book ‘Essays from Roscrea’ by George Cunningham will be officially launched at a special gathering in Roscrea.
‘Essays From Roscrea’, a new book by George Cunningham, will be launched in Ryan’s Bar, (formerly the Auburn Lodge), Templemore Road Roscrea on Thursday 1st October at 8pm.
The book will be launched by John Lupton, Chairman of Roscrea Community Development Council.
Published by Parkmore Press for Roscrea People it is a limited signed hardback volume of around 150 pages containing articles and essays written over a fifty-period by George Cunningham.
Many have been unpublished and others have appeared in local limited booklets or were written for events or launches or as forewords or introductions.
They mainly cover the counties of Tipperary, Offaly and the Burren region of County Clare and embrace a wide range of topics from education to art, from landscape to history, biography and autobiography, heritage tourism and local studies.
‘Essays From Roscrea’ is the first in a series of Roscrea Record Memoirs. Hopefully others will deal with bibliography, Roscrea Heritage, Tree Notes and Travels and Public Service at the University of Limerick, 1992-2009.
Any profit from the publication will go towards the cost of the large monograph on Monaincha which hopefully will be published in the first half of 2027.
The cover art for ‘Essays From Roscrea’ is a painting of contemporary Roscrea in the mid 1970s by the late artists Mary Arrigan from Roscrea.
Copies of the new book will be available at a reduced rate during the launch and afterwards copies may be purchased at Dimma Books, SVP, Roscrea.
George told the Tribune he is very much looking forward to the launch event and meeting people eager to collect their copies of the new publication.