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  • Tom Flanagan, Kilbreedy Impresario

    Tom Flanagan, Kilbreedy Impresario

    04/12/2022
    The name of John Flanagan, Kilbreedy remains famous to this day as an athlete of world renown who dominated his ...
  • Youghal Community Archives, Co. Cork

    Youghal Community Archives, Co. Cork

    01/12/2022
    Creating a future for our past  
  • Kilshannig Heritage Society, Co. Cork

    Kilshannig Heritage Society, Co. Cork

    01/12/2022
    Kilshannig Heritage Group Collecting and Archiving our History and Heritage
  • Kilmurry Heritage, Co. Cork

    Kilmurry Heritage, Co. Cork

    01/12/2022
    Kilmurry Historical & Archaeological Association Stair na hÉireann le Léargas Áitiúil
  • Cork County Heritage Office

    Cork County Heritage Office

    01/12/2022
    Cork County Heritage Office Cork County Heritage Office  
  • Bere Island Archives, Co. Cork

    Bere Island Archives, Co. Cork

    01/12/2022
    Bere Island Projects Group Preserving the history of our island community.
  • Tulla Connect, Co. Clare

    Tulla Connect, Co. Clare

    01/12/2022
    Tulla Reaching Out Heritage Preserving & Sharing Tulla’s History & Heritage  
  • Kilkeedy Community Heritage, Co. Clare

    Kilkeedy Community Heritage, Co. Clare

    01/12/2022
    Keeping Our Past Alive
  • Clonlara Community Heritage, Co.Clare

    Clonlara Community Heritage, Co.Clare

    01/12/2022
    Canals & Waterways Linking People & Places
  • Finding & using OSi mapping: two websites explored

    Finding & using OSi mapping: two websites explored

    30/11/2022
    **video** Talk details This presentation examines two websites with OSi mapping. The first is UCD Library’s Digital Collection Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) ...
  • Mayo’s Disused Railway Stations

    Mayo’s Disused Railway Stations

    28/11/2022
    The Midland & Great Western Railway (MGWR) of Ireland extended the railway system into Mayo towards the end of the ...
  • Currower Ogham Stone

    Currower Ogham Stone

    27/11/2022
    Dated possibly from the fourth to seventh centuries these inscribed stones were located at various sites near ecclesiastical sites or ...
  • Currachs at Brandon Creek

    Currachs at Brandon Creek

    25/11/2022
    Over the years I have visited Brandon Creek to check on the currachs. Besides Dunquin pier, it has turned out to ...
  • Currachs at Dunquin pier

    Currachs at Dunquin pier

    25/11/2022
    In 1987, I took the small ferry from Dunquin to the Great Blasket Island for the first time. I stayed the ...
  • Haunting tales from Ireland's past

    Haunting tales from Ireland's past

    23/11/2022
    Talk details Ireland is replete with stories of haunted castle and houses, cemeteries and churches and yet they are largely overlooked ...
  • Abbeyleix Bog by any other name?

    Abbeyleix Bog by any other name?

    22/11/2022
    We call it Abbeyleix Bog. That is the name on the map of bogs in Queen’s County in 1814. The ...
  • The Cottage at Derrevane, Lemanaghan Bog, Co. Offaly

    The Cottage at Derrevane, Lemanaghan Bog, Co. Offaly

    22/11/2022
    This cottage was a traditional thatched building in the Irish vernacular style divided into three rooms stretching across its full ...
  • Currachs at Ballymore, 1989

    Currachs at Ballymore, 1989

    21/11/2022
    In 1989 I spent some time at the Ballymore camp ground between Dingle and Ventry where I visited a friend. There ...
  • Dingle racing currachs

    Dingle racing currachs

    18/11/2022
    In Dingle the currach mainly survives as racing currach. I have investigated the excellent fleet of racing currachs there for ...
  • The Banshee Visit

    The Banshee Visit

    18/11/2022
    The first time I heard of the banshee I was 10. My friends granny, who was from the west of ...
  • Toghar Lacht na Lathí

    Toghar Lacht na Lathí

    17/11/2022
    In the townlands of Derrymany and Derryad in the parish of Newtowncashel, portions of trackway made from single plank (toghar) ...
  • The Besom Man

    The Besom Man

    17/11/2022
    I was told by a neighbour that he lived over 100 years ago on a small island in the bog ...
  • Fibreglass currachs in the Dingle Peninsula

    Fibreglass currachs in the Dingle Peninsula

    14/11/2022
    At the time when Fungi the Dingle dolphin was not yet very popular, Declan Malone introduced me to his fibreglass ...
  • Fatal Affray at Ardpatrick

    Fatal Affray at Ardpatrick

    10/11/2022
    150 years ago today, the author’s great-granduncle was stabbed to death outside Ardpatrick village, County Limerick. Edmond Connolly was 35 ...
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  • Tony S on The Mc Greal Family

    25/01/2023
    My grandmother was Nora McGreal came to America with her brother Austin in I believe 1910. She was from Westport....
  • Fionnuala on Ballygill Bridge, scene of the last known fatal duel in Ireland

    24/01/2023
    Hi Annette, Malachy is my 3x GGF and Owen seemingly was a cousin. The story has had a few variations...
  • Eileen Dunne on The Sídhe – belief & customs in Co. Laois

    24/01/2023
    Only heard of this tonight from my friend.. Paddy who knows ye well... Im so intrigued.. Am reading everything now.....
  • Lorna Elms on Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) Railway Station

    23/01/2023
    Hi Denis, thank you for your eagle eye and for drawing our attention to that typo - it has now...
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