[{"id":3619,"link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/rev-edward-spring-and-his-mission\/","name":"rev-edward-spring-and-his-mission","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coolimbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/StKieran_LowRes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1176&ssl=1","alt":""},"title":"Rev. Edward Spring and his Mission","author":{"name":"admin","link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/author\/williamdavidcasey_ctjq2tlb\/"},"date":"Oct 8, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-08 16:42:33","modifiedDate":"2023-11-04 16:47:05","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-11-04 16:47:05","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":3,"sec":57},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When the Rev. Edward Spring died in 1880 a brief obituary in the Skibbereen Eagle newspaper stated that \u2018he held strong and decided episcoparian opinions\u2019 and at one time his name became \u2018famous in a religious controversy\u2019. To understand this controversy we must go back 40 years before his death, to the 1840s, to the time of the Great Famine when Protestant missionaries, such as Edward Spring, were accused of trading food for conversions \u2013 an activity that became known as \u2018Souperism\u2019."},{"id":1806,"link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/harold-frederic-an-american-journalist-in-west-cork\/","name":"harold-frederic-an-american-journalist-in-west-cork","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coolimbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Harold-Frederic2.jpg?fit=626%2C767&ssl=1","alt":""},"title":"Harold Frederic: An American Journalist in west Cork.","author":{"name":"admin","link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/author\/williamdavidcasey_ctjq2tlb\/"},"date":"Aug 19, 2022","dateGMT":"2022-08-19 14:38:39","modifiedDate":"2023-10-08 17:46:20","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-10-08 16:46:20","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":8,"sec":6},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Harold Frederic was born in Utica in New York State in 1856. In the 1880s, when he was the New York Times correspondent in London, he started visiting west Cork, particularly the Mizen and Sheep\u2019s Head peninsulas. In the following years he wrote articles about this area and he also penned a book and a series of short stories set in west Cork."},{"id":538,"link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/naomh-ciaran-of-cape-clear\/","name":"naomh-ciaran-of-cape-clear","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coolimbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NaoimhCiaran.jpg?fit=1200%2C1800&ssl=1","alt":""},"title":"Naomh Ciar\u00e1n of Cape Clear","author":{"name":"admin","link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/author\/williamdavidcasey_ctjq2tlb\/"},"date":"Mar 4, 2022","dateGMT":"2022-03-04 13:25:57","modifiedDate":"2023-10-08 17:47:14","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-10-08 16:47:14","commentCount":"2","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/west-cork\/\" rel=\"category tag\">West Cork<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":7,"sec":5},"status":"publish","excerpt":"March 5th is the feast day of Naomh Ciar\u00e1n of Cape Clear, who is said to be one of the four pre-Patrician saints of Ireland and is considered by some as the first native born Irish saint. Like most early Irish saints what we know of the life of Naomh Ciar\u00e1n is largely legend, and it is difficult to know how much of it is based on fact."},{"id":171,"link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/mortimer-moynahan-a-forgotten-fenian-leader\/","name":"mortimer-moynahan-a-forgotten-fenian-leader","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coolimbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5690663443_5818004d76_o.jpg?fit=708%2C1024&ssl=1","alt":""},"title":"Mortimer Moynahan: A forgotten Fenian leader","author":{"name":"Coolim_Books","link":"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/author\/coolim_books\/"},"date":"Nov 28, 2021","dateGMT":"2021-11-28 21:02:23","modifiedDate":"2021-11-28 21:02:23","modifiedDateGMT":"2021-11-28 21:02:23","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/coolimbooks.com\/tag\/fenian\/' rel='post_tag'>Fenian<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":8,"sec":56},"status":"publish","excerpt":""}]