The Mercier Press Ltd

Days of the Blackthorn uses contemporary sources such as eyewitness tales, to provide a visceral sense of the 'vengeful, brutal, drunken, petty world' of faction fighting in Kerry in the 1800s. This is a fascinating account of a wild, violent time in Ireland's history.

Titles Include Monkie Business...Jungle Tangle...Class Act.

Acknowledgements 10 The Trick Seems to be to Work on it - Cillian Murphy 12 Unpacking Empathy - Charlotte Silke and Bernadine Brady 16 Brothers - Michael D. Higgins 20 The Talker - Rory O'Neill 26 Seeing Through the Eyes of Another - Pamela Joyce 29 Sausage Poisoning - Blindboyboatclub 32 Empathy - Michael Kerin 37 Thoughts on Empathy's Place in Music - Hozier 41 Toss the Bobbin - Nicola Joyce 46 Empathy in Music Therapy - Rebecca O'Connor 51 Don't Murray, Be Happy! - Cathal Murray 54 My Essay on Empathy - Tolu Makay 58 The Light in Somebody Else's Storm - Lynda Peilow 61 Too Sensitive - Louise O'Neill 65 Empathy Checkpoint - Martina Venneman 69 Showing Empathy to Youth - Gary Nugent 73 A Traveller's Perspective - Martin McDonagh 76 Empathy through Food - Michelle Darmody 80 Reflections on Empathy and Sport - Eamonn O'Shea 83 Stepping in the Stirrups of Others - Rachael Blackmore 87 Empathy isn't Black and White - Joanne O'Riordan 89 Nursing - in the Blink of an Eye - Marie Lohan 92 Empathy from My Mother - Sean Campbell 95 Served with Compassion - Niamh Condon 98 Empathy in Journalism - Carl O'Brien 103 Green over Blue - Kiernan Forsyth 107 6 On the Mend - John Gaffey 110 The Person who Sees - Ailbhe Greaney 115 Empathy, Images and the Internet - Mary McGill 123 Empathy for the Devil ... and the Nuns - Mark Brennan 126 Educating for and with Empathy - Dr Niamh Flynn and Emer Davitt 131 YHTAPME - Roisin Hanley 138 English Class - Elaine Feeney 144 I Sure Hope the School around the Corner is Not the Same - Pat Dolan 147 Empathy in Education - Hugh Fitzmaurice 151 It's You I Like ... The Way You Are Right Now - Dr Dana Winters and Dr Annie White 155 A Sheep among Wolves - Aisling Duffy 159 The Music Medicine Woman - Mary Coughlan 164 Nocturne II - John Kelly 167 Savita - Kitty Holland 168 Lonely Hearths - Gillian Browne 176 Empathy for My Mother - Dermot Whelan 177 The Magic Cauldron - Susan McKeown 178 Does it Count as Empathy - Brendan O'Connor 182 Hot Wheels, Warm Heart - Tara Dawson 186 Empathy as an Act of Defiance - The Edge 189 Empathy, the Best Superpower - Rabbi Zalman Lent 191 My Power Called Empathy - Matthew Shaw-Torkzadeh 195 Empathy as a Broader Understanding of Family - Valerie Biden Owens 197 Empathy and the Displaced - Niamh Heery 202 Empathy across Generations - Mary Sugrue 208 Our Empathy Story - McDonough Family 211 7 All Lives Matter - Uchechukwu Helen Ogbu 216 Historical Empathy? - Sarah-Anne Buckley 223 Northern Dilemmas - Alan and Elaine Smith 226 A Wing-Back and a Prayer - Colin Regan 228 Closer to Home - Eoin, Roisin & Brendan Dolan 233 Who Am I to Judge? - Peter McVerry 236 Yesterday's Enemies - Saoirse Egan 239 The True Power of Sport to Really Connect - Hugo MacNeill 245 Best Way to Human - Imelda May 251 Growing Up - Stephanie Roche 252 Radiant Empathy in the Dark - Ella Anderson 257 Empathy and Me - Ashling Dunphy 261 Broken Radios - Fiona Prine 264 Ingredients - Nevin Maguire 269 He Fell through the Cracks - Rita Ann Higgins 273 Citylink Tales - Catherine Denning 275 Thinking in Plastic - Ciara-Beth Ni Ghriofa 277 Courageous Conversations - Ben Hughes 281 My Understanding of Empathy - Timmy Long 291 Empathy to Me - James Leonard 292 Empathy can Heal our Troubled World - Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri 294 Empathy Sa Chistin - Hume Family 298 Empathy - A True Champion of the West - Hannick Family 303 Managers of Empathy - Paul McGrath 308 Mary Elmes - Clodagh Finn 311 Finding Empathy - Eamonn Fitzgerald 316 Ciorcal Iomlan - Kathy Hyland 325 Luck - Louis de Paor 328 8 No Idea what will Happen Next - Tiernan Henry 332 Reflections on Learning Empathy - Mark Brennan and Pat Dolan 336 Contributors' Biographies 346

Princess Finola and the Dwarf The House in the Lake The Little White Cat The Golden Spears The Fairy Tree of Dooros The Enchanted Cave The Huntsman's Son

Princess Finola and the Dwarf The House in the Lake The Little White Cat The Golden Spears The Fairy Tree of Dooros The Enchanted Cave The Huntsman's Son

How Setanta became Cuchulainn 9 The Childrenof Lir 36 Oisin in Tir na nOg 68

Chapter Outline 1. Childhood-up to six years of age-family background 2. Tombeagh, Co Carlow - Five younger siblings move there - Rathvilly N.S. 3. Dublin Schools - Three secondary schools-Meeting Frank Flood-Notable Past Pupils 4. University College Dublin-Scholarship-Student Life 5. Irish Volunteer Army - Manchester Martyrs Commemoration - Active Service 6. The War of Independence - Flying Columns-Black and Tans - ROI Act 7. Ambush and Arrest - "We were only after the rifles" - Three Soldiers Dead 8. Interrogation and Torture - KB Statement, 28th October 9. Trial-Prosecution for the Killing of Private Whitehead 10. Condemned Cell Mountjoy Prison - Terence MacSwiney - Final Visitors 11. "Another Martyr for Old Ireland" - Execution - First of Forgotten Ten 12. Aftermath - Moral turning point of War of Independence 13. Glasnevin Cemetery - Final resting place-Family connections there 14. In Memory Of - Rathvilly Monument - UCD window - GAA clubs 15. Ballads and Poems Quotes and excerpts from letters, newspapers and court proceedings will punctuate the text.