Profile of Castleisland Entrepreneur, W H O’Connor
There is such a thing as inability to relax … His active life was his whole life. To the end, he was working. There was no let up. – Rev Brother Francis writing of his brother, W H O’Connor In 1955, Brother Francis of the Presentation Brothers, Cork, wrote an account of his older sibling, […]
Keeping up with the times: Carnegie Library and Hall, Castleisland
Castleisland’s cherished Carnegie Library reopened its doors in September 2017 as a modern, revamped, co-working office space.1 The building had been idle since the courthouse closed its doors in 2011, exactly one hundred years since Mr William Hugh O’Connor had thanked Mr Andrew Carnegie for his generosity in handing over £1,500 for the […]
