The Templemore Miracles: Jimmy Walsh, Ceasefires and Moving Statues

by John Reynolds

In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the guerrilla war that followed reached its peak in August 1920, in the garrison town of Templemore, when a series of extraordinary events occurred. Sixteen-year-old farm labourer Jimmy Walsh claimed that he was experiencing Marian apparitions, and that religious statues owned by him were moving and bleeding. Miraculous cures were claimed and the religious fervour which gripped Ireland led to an influx of thousands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750990597
• ISBN13: 9780750990592
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Thp Ireland
• Length: 160 Pages