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Mike originally qualified with a BSc. Brendan, a Joycean scholar, saved from
(Pharm) from Trinity College Dublin and dilapidation the %*th century Georgian
then worked in Community Pharmacy for townhouse that was home to James
"' years before a love of history, folklore, Joyce’s grand aunts and imortalised by
and mythology took him to Rathcroghan, Joyce in The Dead, the !nal story of
the Royal Site of Connacht in Co. Roscom - Dubliners. Brendan also saved Sweny, the
mon, where he now works as a Tour Guide, pharma cists, visited by Leopold Bloom
Research Assist ant, and Deputy Manager in Lincoln Place, Dublin, preserv ing its
of the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre. He Victorian con tents and shelving; today it is
holds a Higher Diploma in Archaeology maintained by volunteers as a bookshop.
from NUI, Galway, and has co-authored Brendan’s book Sweny A Pharmacy in the
a number of publications about Rath - City, is now in its second edition.
roghan, including The Rathcroghan

Archaeo log ical Trail–Slí Seandálaíochta
Ráth Cruachan and Rathcroghan–The
Guidebook. Mike says of Rathcroghan:
‘[It is] exceptional in Ireland as a place
where folklore and myth ology meet
our archaeology and history ’.

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