The precious, fragile archives that chronicle one famine-ravaged community in Kerry... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Castleisland in a Period of Potato Panic, by Bryan MacMahon above.
The castle of the island is the inspiration for celebrating 800 years of history in Kerry... There is much to celebrate over eight centuries, but I am looking into records of the saddest time in the town's storied past...
This essay appeared on the programme of April 26th - listen back here
