Ballina & Area People

My latest book, a limited signed edition, Ballina & Area People is out mid-January 2021 and features greats who were from or are connected with the area Amongst those featured are (in alphabetical order):

• President Joe Biden, 46th President of the USA
• Rory Bourke, top songwriter in the USA
• Bravery in WWI and India
• (Patrick Hennigan and friends in WWI trenches)
• Jackie Clarke and his truly amazing collection
• Cyril Collins, prime enhancer of Belleek Wood
• Andy Corcoran, great Stephenite captain, lost and now found
• Jim Donnelly, extraordinary footballer and coach
• Monsignor Fachtna Joseph Harte, builder of beautiful Florida Basilica
• Dick Hearns, athlete, footballer, boxer, trainer
• Pat Herbert, collector of radio oddities
• Richard M. Hooley, US theatrical entrepreneur
• Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916 Rising and children’s hospital
• John McDonnell, most successful ever US college athletics coach
• Sarah McElroy, the woman behind Sir Alexander Fleming
• Sr Mary McNulty and others on mission fields
• Arthur Muffeny, one of Ballina’s greatest campaigners
• Fr Patrick Peyton, Rosary Crusader, preached to over 28 million
• Sr Alphonsus Preston, matron Ballina Hospital 
• Jimmy Ralph, one of nature’s great gentlemen.
• President Mary Robinson,  Ireland’s first woman president 
• PJ Ruttledge, freedom fighter and Government Minister
• William Joyce Sewell, decorated US Civil War hero
• William E Shannon, a leading abolitionist in California
• Leslie Stuart, another famous musical figure
• William Vincent and Eliza Wallace, Rock Stars of 19 century
• Edward Whelan, Father of Canadian Confederation