In and out of School - In the home of the McDonaghs - Roche Williams PRICE:IRP£12.00 pbk. PUBLISHER:Ireland 2000

This history of the parish of Cloughjordan, Co.Tipperary has for its foundation an account of the schools of the parish, tracing the developments in education over the past two hundred years since the era of the hedge schools up to the present day. The story also gives a general account of life in the parish from the earliest times, and in a more detailed way over the past two hundred and fifty years, encompassing the major events of Irish history, the Plantations, the Famine, the Land Wars, the World Wars, the Struggle for Independence, the progress since freedom, with a special emphasis on the role played in that story by the Mac Donagh family and in particular its most illustrious member, Thomas Mac Donagh.