Coppermine Press

People of Beara: From Dunboy to Waterloo, Iowa

People of Beara book cover by March O'Sullivan Vallig

People of Beara: From Dunboy to Waterloo, Iowa

People of Beara: From Dunboy to Waterloo, Iowa by Marc O’Sullivan Vallig profiles some of the best-known individuals associated with the Beara peninsula in West Cork, including authors Standish O’Grady and Pádraig Ó Laoghaire, newspaper magnate William Martin Murphy and astronaut Kathryn D Sullivan.

Included also are interviews with Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, O’Sullivan Beare Clan Chieftain Kelly Sullivan and others prominent in the local and international Beara community.

The People of Beara book is available to purchase online through Amazon.de for Europe and Amazon.com for the USA.

You can also check out Marc’s other book People of the Sea

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Marc O'Sullivan Vallig

Marc O’Sullivan Vallig is an artist, writer and curator from Eyeries, Beara, West Cork. His work as a visual artist featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in 2022. His first book, People of the Sea: A Maritime HIstory of Beara, was published in 2020. He served as Artistic Director of Beara Arts Festival from 2016 – 19, and as Arts Editor of the Irish Examiner from 2008 – 14. In 2015, he curated Seán Scully: Figure/Abstract at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. He is a board member of the Munster Literature Centre, Cork, and is Secretary of the Northern Parish Heritage Project, Beara. Marc can be reached on Facebook.
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