Ciaran O'Keeffe

maccored

Dr O'Keeffe will be coming to Carlow in June - just a heads up for anyone who's interested. He'll be giving a talk and launching a book (written by a couple of genii (thanks godless!) I hear) during the Carlow Eigse festival. Im sure there'll be more details posted nearer the date. I know most haunted is sh*te, but Ciaran is pretty sound.

GodlessM

Genii

maccored

ah ha! one learns something new every day!

KeithAFC

Ciaran is great. Hopefully he gets back on TV soon.

maccored

this is what he'll be a-launching

KeithAFC

Cool. Is that going to be a book? I'd like to buy it.

Riamfada

Well done lads!

maccored

heres what Mr. The History Press says:

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It's easy to think that Haunted Carlow may be of interest only to those from the second smallest county in Ireland. It's a relish to realise therefore, that Haunted Carlow is packed full of spine tingling, first hand ghost story accounts, none of which have ever been published before. Though the stories come from the people of Carlow, they could apply to any place in Ireland.

Even in this day and age, people still fear ridicule when talking about their paranormal experiences, and this collection of stories is the result of exhaustive research and endless niggling and encouragement as Cormac Strain and Danny Carthy relentlessly looked to find the hidden Ghost stories Carlow had to offer.

Digging out those people with a story to tell - a true story that more times as not, hadn't even been told to close friends - the search was long, exhausting but fruitful. Old myths and stories from yesteryear weren't the objective. Finding new, true and as yet untold stories was, and this is something Haunted Carlow has managed to pull together into one collection.

Modern tales of poltergeists in housing estates, phantom voices, ghostly nannies, white ladies and banshees - this isn't the stuff of oft repeated folklore; these are freshly discovered ghostly tales from the people of Carlow.

Just what was staying in Brown Street? Who is the White Lady? What kind of being did some Carlow students unwittingly end up sharing a house with? Just who was that old lady watching over the kids? You'll find the answers within the pages of Haunted Carlow.

Is Carlow Shopping Centre - built on the site of the old Carlow Gaol - really haunted? Find out about the sights and noises people have experienced over the almost two decades since the Centre was opened, and then as we peel back the years, the encounters from before the Centre was built and the land was used as a workshop for Thompsons.

Ideal for the paranormal enthusiast, the local historian, the Carlow diaspora abroad and of course anyone who enjoys a good, scary story, Haunted Carlow suits many kinds of reader. All you need is to remain calm, don't panic and remember it's only a book. Surely these stories couldn't *really* be true? Could they?

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maccored

this is the actual cover, as laid out by The History Press