Launch of 'The Grand Tour of Beara'

Pictured above is Penelope Durell, Peter Somerville Large and Cornelius Kelly at the launch on Sunday 23td July 2000

The Beara Peninsula, Through the eyes of over 50 visitors.  Theobald WolfeTone, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Sean O'Faolain.  These are just a few of the people who have travelled to Beara during the past four centuries and written about their experiences.  This anthology brings together their accounts, aong with those of forty-six other visitors.  From a soldier at the Siege of Dunboy to the last man to serve as butler of Puxley's Mansion.  From an American missionary with a suitcase full of Irish-language Bibles to a plant collector for the Botanical Gardens in Dublin.  Containing over four centuries of reminiscences, photographs, maps and drawings, The Grand Tour of Beara provides a facinating look at Beara as it was discovered by the outside world.

Authors:

Penelope Durell is author of Discover Dursey, a history of the island off the tip of the Beara Peninsula

Cornelius Kelly is the author of Presidential Pets, a history of animals in the American White House.

The book, retailing at IR£9.50 is on sale locally or from email: pjdurell@eircom.net