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  • BIM 26 Footers - Belderrig, Co Mayo

    BIM 26 Footers - Belderrig, Co Mayo

    Picture taken in Belderrig Co Mayo pier 1964. 4 new 26 foot timber boats (known as BIM 26 footers) With a 8 ...
  • Boatbuilding in Pulgloss, Louisburgh, Co Mayo

    Boatbuilding in Pulgloss, Louisburgh, Co Mayo

    A reconstruction of the traditional dwelling and boat-wright yard of the McHale family at Pulgloss, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo Ireland as ...
  • Boatbuilding near Louisburgh

    Boatbuilding near Louisburgh

    This an article I wrote for the Louisburgh Parish magazine, “An Choinneall” for the 2014 edition.
  • Documenting aspects of our heritage through photography

    Documenting aspects of our heritage through photography

  • Eva O'Flaherty (1874 - 1963)

    Eva O'Flaherty (1874 - 1963)

    Eva O’Flaherty was an Irish nationalist, Parisienne model, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and London milliner who founded a successful ...
  • From Achill to Australia- The tale of Keiron's Currach

    From Achill to Australia- The tale of Keiron's Currach

    Our friend Keiron Ginnelly, here in Fremantle Western Australia, spent his early formative years in Dooega, Achill Island. His family ...
  • Louisburgh-Killeen Heritage Group, Co. Mayo

    Louisburgh-Killeen Heritage Group, Co. Mayo

    Find out more about Louisburgh-Killeen Heritage Group’s postcard here %video%
  • Mayo Abbey, Inisboffin, Inishark connection

    Mayo Abbey, Inisboffin, Inishark connection

    Mayo Abbey Introduction Mayo is known as the “plain of the yew trees” and is one of the most important monastic sites ...
  • Mayo Genealogy Group, Co. Mayo

    Mayo Genealogy Group, Co. Mayo

    Find out more about the Mayo Genealogy Group postcard project here %video%
  • Michael Viney: Mayo's wild terrain was once the largest farm in Ireland

    Michael Viney: Mayo's wild terrain was once the largest farm in Ireland

    This article was originally published in the Irish Times on 12 March, 20221 Another Life: In 1850, as famine raged, Captain ...
  • Michael Walsh and Michael Madden Currach Making

    Michael Walsh and Michael Madden Currach Making

    My grand uncle Michael “Bobby”Walsh was a boat and Currach builder from Inishturk south, he mover to the mainland near ...
  • Our Daoine agus Áit experience

    Our Daoine agus Áit experience

    Mayo Genealogy Group were informed during April 2021 by Tom Doyle Education Department at the National Museum of Ireland  – ...
  • Summer Sunshine in Moore Hall

    Summer Sunshine in Moore Hall

    Moore Hall in a silhouette of sunlight on a summer’s day as I walk up the avenue shrouded in a ...
  • The Daoine agus Áit Heritage Postcard Collection

    The Daoine agus Áit Heritage Postcard Collection

    The bi-lingual project title encapsulates our objective of drawing on a shared history and heritage to connect people with their ...
  • The GSR Leyland Badger Bus to Achill ca. 1932

    The GSR Leyland Badger Bus to Achill ca. 1932

  • The Last St Patrick's Day

    The Last St Patrick's Day

    My Irish grandmother, Nora Oates Sheils, died tragically in 1922 when my mother was 18 months old. When I learned ...
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