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  • Frank Galvin on Pat McNicholas

    10/11/2021
    You will never again see the best hard working generation of Irish workers , who turned up for work in...

  • Noelene Beckett Crowe on The song of Slawmin-a-wool

    10/11/2021
    Wonderful poem Michael...like Paraic Colum's 'The Old Woman of the Roads'

  • Noelene Beckett Crowe on Mayo

    10/11/2021
    Amazing memories of a childhood in Mayo. Love this 'hills shyly shoulder each other.'

  • Noelene Beckett Crowe on The song of the scythe

    10/11/2021
    This is excellent Michael. Well done. Reminisent of Helaire Bellock in 'The Mowing of a Field.'

  • Finbarr Connolly on Kilfinane All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1897

    06/11/2021
    Chris, according to Brendan Fullam's book 'The Throw-in' (2004), the crossbar was in existence from the very first championship in...

  • Chris Mooney on Kilfinane All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1897

    06/11/2021
    It is interesting to read a reference to 'the point post' in the account of Kilfinane's first All-Ireland Final victory....

  • Finbarr Connolly on Hanly Occupants House No. 10

    03/11/2021
    Thanks for the update Marjie. The Limerick Association in London do great work in maintaining Sean Og's grave.

  • Edmund stapleton on Boland Occupants House No. 2

    28/10/2021
    Don't worry your head about it Andrew you are more than welcome through your people's door here in gobhran na...

  • Mike Tierney on Morgan McMahon’s Boating History

    16/10/2021
    Thanks Fiona for adding this.

  • Marjie McKenna on Hanly Occupants House No. 10

    11/10/2021
    I came across the grave of Sean og Hanley yesterday in St Mary's Kendal Green London. It stood out a...

  • Aoibheann Lambe on Loughnashee Rock Art

    10/10/2021
    the coordinates given here appear to be ESE facing slopes and at a substantial distance from Lachan Si. I have...

  • Finbarr Connolly on Kilfinane All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1897

    06/10/2021
    Glad you enjoyed it Tom. Those men have a very special place in Kilfinane history.

  • emma wells on Vaughan Occupants, House No. 11

    04/10/2021
    Nora Vaughan is my great grandmother

  • Tom Donovan on Kilfinane All-Ireland Hurling Champions 1897

    08/09/2021
    Great research and brilliant article.

  • Abbey Heritage on Skehana & District Heritage Group, Co. Galway

    08/09/2021
    Congratulations to Skehana & District Heritage Group on a beautiful postcard and excellent video presentation. Well done!

  • Abbey Heritage on Milltown Heritage Group, Co. Galway

    08/09/2021
    Well done Pauline and all the Milltown Heritage Group on your lovely postcard and excellent video. Milltown looking its best...

  • Suzanne Schrader on Patrick Lavelle Knockbreaga

    06/09/2021
    My great-grandfather, Patrick Moran, lived in a Railway Cottage a short distance West from the Molloy family in their Railway...

  • Paula O'Connell on Patrick Grehan Smyth

    05/09/2021
    Just a few small corrections: Marriage date for Patrick Smyth and Kate Doris was 15 August 1892. (ref: Western People,...

  • Matthew Fitzpatrick on Rev. Fr. John J. Fitzpatrick

    02/09/2021
    There is a civil birth record of a John Fitzpatrick born 20th June 1884 in the townland of Forkfield (...

  • John Hogan on Three Special Women From Ballyhaught

    01/09/2021
    I Remember Playing 45 there many Times

  • Justin Mccarthy on Charles Bianconi’s Coaches

    28/08/2021
    A suitable tribute to Bianconi would be the establishment of some kind of museum to include working replicas of the...

  • Viveka Guzman on Mayo Genealogy Group, Co. Mayo

    25/08/2021
    Fantastic postcard! I really enjoyed watching the video to learn a little bit more and hear the reading of the...

  • Marian Hardiman on Glens of Lead, Co. Wicklow

    24/08/2021
    This is a lovely image of the Glen and the words on the back are beautiful. Congratulations from Marian at...

  • Marian Hardiman on Glendalough Heritage Forum, Co. Wicklow

    24/08/2021
    A beautiful image of the stone among the trees and forest floor. Congratulations on a beautiful postcard. Marian at Skehana...
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