A compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this historic county.

Dr Chris Lawlor is a former head of the History Department in Méanscoil Iognáid Rís, Naas, and has published eleven history books and many historical articles, essays and chapters in journals, magazines and anthologies. Chris won the Lord Walter Fitzgerald Prize for Original Historical Research in 2003 and the Irish Chiefs' Prize for History in 2013. He is the treasurer of the West Wicklow Historical Society and co-editor of the society's biennial journal. He is also a member of the Dunlavin Writers' Group and continues to write, publish and lecture during his retirement.