2009 Press Releases
07.04.2009
Knock: The Virgin's Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland, published by Cork University Press has been selected as a co-winner of the tenth annual James S. Donnelly, Sr. award for Books in History and the Social Sciences, presented by the American Conference for Irish Studies
On August 21, 1879, in a poor rural village in county Mayo, over a dozen people saw a bright silvery-white light outside the gable of the local Catholic church and within the light the Virgin Mary, St Joseph and St John the Evangelist. From a neglected memoir dating from 1880, the author, Eugene Hynes, steps inside the shoes of a local man who described the scene in Knock for half a century before the apparition. The timing and location of the
Eugene Hynes is a native of east Galway and is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kettering University, Michigan
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