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Proceeds from book sales will go to support the work of the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance.
Ballinascreen Historical Society has just announced that, for the next few months, Air Ambulance NI will be their adopted charity.
For every copy of the Society’s two, most recent, books – “Geordie” and “Magherafelt Workhouse 1847 Register” – sold in Ballinascreen Credit Union, at the Society Book Fair (Sat. 3rd Dec.) or at the monthly meetings, £5 will be donated to the charity.
Due to exceptional demand both of these books have had to be reprinted and are being re-launched.
They are currently available in Sheehy’s (Cookstown), The Hearth (Maghera), Spar (Tobermore) and the usual Draperstown outlets. Details of the Society Book Fair will be available next week.
The Magherafelt Workhouse book contains full details of the 2606 unfortunate individuals who entered the Workhouse in the calamitous year of 1847.
The book on Geordie Barnett (1876-1965) has 10 chapters, 11 tributes, 6 appendices and a bibliography.
Within its 352 pages there are almost three hundred poems, making a massive contribution to local social history.
Full details of all the Society publications are on the website – www.ballinascreenhistoricalsociety.com – and every book which is still in print, except the two mentioned, will be sold at a discounted price at the Book Fair.
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