The Kirwans of Castlehacket, Co. Galway

History, folklore and mythology in an Irish horseracing family

Ronan Lynch

‘It is obvious that painstaking research has gone into this work which is of important historical significance as it gives a good insight into how a family who were Anglo-Irish Catholics in the early days eventually became Protestant … a very readable book', Tom Gilmore, Tuam Herald.

'The author chronicles the history of the Kirwans in expert fashion, lacing the story with intriguing and often hilarious anecdotes in the life of this unusual Irish family’, Richard Roche, Irish Times.