Authors Henry Cairns was born in Bray in 1942. A past pupil of Presentation College Bray, he was the proprietor of the Townhall Bookshop in Bray for 40 years. He has a lifelong interest in local history and has published ten volumes and four booklets in collaboration with Owen Gallagher on the history of Bray, and a further two volumes on the War of Independence and one volume on the First World War in the north Wicklow area. His publications include Wicklow in Revolt–A History of County Wicklow from 1913-1923 (Old Bray Society, 2016).
Dr Chris Lawlor is a retired secondary school teacher living in Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow. He is a prolific author of history books, articles and essays and has lectured in Ireland, the UK and Australia. He won the Dunlavin Arts Festival short story award in 2001, the Lord Walter Fitzgerald prize for original historical research in 2003 and the Irish Chiefs’ prize for history in 2013; he was also a prize winner in the 2018 Ireland’s Own open short story competition. He holds an MA from Maynooth and a PhD from DCU.
Rosemary Raughter is an independent scholar, with a particular interest in women’s history. Her publications include Religious women and their history: breaking the silence (2005) and The journal of Elizabeth Bennis, 1749–1779 (2007) as well as articles on female involvement in philanthropy, religion and domestic life in a number of academic collections and journals. She has published essays on local and family history in vols. I and II of Greystones: its buildings and history, Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society, Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society Journal, Bulletin of the Methodist Historical Society of Ireland, Journal of the Irish Mountaineering and Exploration Historical Society, Federation of Local Historical Societies Journal, and Offaly Heritage, as well as on www.countywicklowheritage.org. She is currently chairperson of Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society.
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