Schools
Integration Project |
Acknowledgements
We wish to sincerely thank the
following whose assistance made this project possible
Seamus Walsh | The Ward Family, | Wandesforde N.S. |
Tom & Marie Reddy | Larry Power | Gerry Holden |
Seamus Farrell | Catherine Hughes | Michael Doogue |
Billy Lacey | Annie Love | Mary Hosey |
Jane O' Neill | Christopher Brooke | Errol Delaney |
Castlecomer Boys N.S. | James Murphy | The Lyng Family |
Seamus O' Connor | Angela Fogarty | Noel Murphy |
Greg Gilligan | Seaghan Moriarty | Gerry O' Neill |
Eamonn Henry | Frank Devlin | Brian Walsh |
Máire Downey | Har Downey | Michael Conroy |
A special thanks:
to Seamus Walsh for giving us so much time, sharing his own experiences as a miner with us and for allowing us to use any information we needed from his own wonderful publication "In the Shadow of the Mines".
to the Ward family Woodview for allowing us to visit and photograph the site of the Deerpark mines and for sharing their great collection of artifacts with us.
to Larry Power Moneenroe, for allowing us to visit and photograph his working mine at Glenmullen. The experience of going down underground will stay with us for ever.
to Michael Conroy for allowing us to use extracts and photographs from his very interesting book "The Culm Crushers"
to Mrs. Anne Byrne and Wandesforde N.S. for sharing with us valuable project work that they had done on the mines
to everybody else who gave us interviews, allowed us to photograph artifacts or helped us in any other way.