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  • Staker Wallis Book - His Life and Times and Death, by Mainchín Seoighe

    Staker Wallis Book - His Life and Times and Death, by Mainchín Seoighe

    Patrick (‘Staker’) Wallis, whose tragic story is told in this book, was hanged in Kilfinane, Co Limerick, in 1798. A ...
  • The heritage of Lonehort Harbour, Bere Island.

    The heritage of Lonehort Harbour, Bere Island.

    Lonehort Harbour is on the eastern end of Bere Island. The place name Lonehort / Longphort is of Norse origin ...
  • The Great Hunger

    The Great Hunger

    In 1845 The blight came tearing at potato fields Black as night potatoes withered Dying never more to yield Confiscated wheat and barley Left the ...
  • Turk Island, Bere Island

    Turk Island, Bere Island

    Turk Island, located in Lawrence Cove, Bere Island, Co Cork. Local folklore recounts how in pre-famine times a Turkish ship ...
  • Atmospheric Phenomena

    Atmospheric Phenomena

    Anticipation with exhilaration On an August evening at hallowed site Amid assemblage, at one with Spirits Ancient tribes, Previous witnesses Musing as fiery Sphere ...
  • St. Cumin’s Church  / Cill Chuimín

    St. Cumin’s Church  / Cill Chuimín

    A legend narrated by Michael Mac Ruaidhri of Ballycastle, Co. Mayo was a confused reminiscence of Crom Cruac.  Prior to ...
  • Caher Island

    Caher Island

    The uninhabited island of Caher is situated between Clare Island & Inishturk.  It was believed that a hermitage existed on ...
  • The song of Slawmin-a-wool

    The song of Slawmin-a-wool

    I walk the roads of Erris, Tirawley, Burrishoole. Irish is my native tongue and it wasn’t learnt at school. My feet are ...
  • Mayo

    Mayo

    Mayo, may I place you in context A bare brown tooth in a vacant grin Shaped by the savage sea. Your cliffs carved ...
  • The dance at the Merchant's

    The dance at the Merchant's

    Some were back from England for a week And thought to capture that which they had missed. A night of dance and ...
  • Fishing for bream

    Fishing for bream

    The boy lifted the wet brittle layer of shale from its ancient bed And captured the scurrying crustaceans in loosely gripped ...
  • The potato clamp

    The potato clamp

    The autumn finds its end in cold and damp The Kerr’s Pink must be saved from winter’s frost. Four cartloads are protected ...
  • The straw rope

    The straw rope

    The boy hooked the straw from his uncle’s hands Gleaned from the pile on the kitchen floor The lamp cast a glow ...
  • The song of the scythe

    The song of the scythe

    The stone stroked the scythe creating a plaintive tune As the cutting edge was smoothed into sharpness. The first strokes were bold ...
  • A short history (continued)

    A short history (continued)

    I was born in 1943 in Muingelly near Ballycastle, County Mayo. My mother was born in Muingelly and my father ...
  • Mayo defences against the wild Atlantic weather

    Mayo defences against the wild Atlantic weather

    In May 1955, the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, A.T. Lucas and leading Irish folklorist, Kevin Danaher travelled ...
  • The Glebe House Kilfinane

    The Glebe House Kilfinane

    We are grateful to Mr Barry O’Neill, Killiney Co. Dublin, for providing this history of the Glebe House (NIAH), which ...
  • Online Network Meeting 3 November 2021

    Online Network Meeting 3 November 2021

    Please find all of the meeting presentations and documents below. ICAN Updates ***updates*** Our thanks to Pat Reid, Glendalough Heritage Forum, for his ...
  • How the Irish came to East Anglia - and the Kilfinane Connection

    How the Irish came to East Anglia - and the Kilfinane Connection

    This is the text of an address written by Peter Crooks to mark the 125th anniversary of the Irish Society ...
  • Multiple Pins on a Single Map

    Multiple Pins on a Single Map

    Creating multiple pins / POIs on a simple map is relatively straight forward, in this video I will show you ...
  • Churching Lament: a poem by Thomas Seán Purdy

    Churching Lament: a poem by Thomas Seán Purdy

    Who will place quartz crystals Into the cold palms of young mothers Who have not been blessed Nor lived long enough To see their ...
  • Sean óg Hanley, October 2021

    Sean óg Hanley, October 2021

    Whilst walking in St Mary’s, Kensal Green, I spotted a green Limerick garland celebrating All Ireland hurling champions. Intrigued I ...
  • The last fisherman of Portdoon, Inishturk

    The last fisherman of Portdoon, Inishturk

    Like generations of his family before him, Mikey O’Toole often sits in his house in Ballyheer, Inishturk and looks down ...
  • The Beauty That Surrounds Us

    The Beauty That Surrounds Us

    This Webpage Is Intended To Accompany The 6 Information Boards Which Have Been Set Up At The Corresponding Locations Kilfinane: Points ...
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