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  • 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 ...
  • Currach as work of art (3)

    Currach as work of art (3)

    09/11/2022
    This beautiful currach frame with two thwarts had been built by Monty O’Leary from the Maharees. Meanwhile it has been ...
  • The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

    The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

    04/11/2022
    Talk details The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched in June 2022, on the centenary of the destruction of the ...
  • Currach as shop decoration (2)

    Currach as shop decoration (2)

    04/11/2022
    In 2016, I photographed another interesting currach in a gift shop in Killarney. I remember I had asked in the shop ...
  • Currach as shop decoration (1)

    Currach as shop decoration (1)

    02/11/2022
    On a visit in Killarney in 2014, I took these photographs in a gift shop somewhere in the town centre. It ...
  • Surviving Currachs (2)

    Surviving Currachs (2)

    02/11/2022
    While going through my photos from 2014, I found the original Dingle bus-stop currach. After further investigation it turned out that ...
  • Currachs as pub decoration (2)

    Currachs as pub decoration (2)

    02/11/2022
    On a trip to Ireland in 2014, I made these photos of a currach model in a pub somewhere around ...
  • Joan Maguire - currach racer and regatta organizer

    Joan Maguire - currach racer and regatta organizer

    02/11/2022
    In 1993, I met Joan Maguire in Dingle. At that time she was running a “musicoffice” in Dykegate St., somewhere ...
  • Jerry Martin, fiddle builder

    Jerry Martin, fiddle builder

    02/11/2022
    In 1974, I was on a trip through Ireland with my former school band. After visiting a concert of the ...
  • Exhibition: An Garda Síochána Galway: 100 Years of Keeping People Safe

    Exhibition: An Garda Síochána Galway: 100 Years of Keeping People Safe

    01/11/2022
    Oughterard Culture and Heritage Group are holding can exhibition to commemorate the Centenary of An Garda Síochána in The Oughterard ...
  • Currachs at Bunbeg, Donegal 1988

    Currachs at Bunbeg, Donegal 1988

    01/11/2022
    In Winter 1998/99, I took a trip along the west coast of Ireland on the trail of James Hornell, who ...
  • Brandon Regatta, 1993

    Brandon Regatta, 1993

    01/11/2022
    In 1993, I took photographs at Brandon during the local currach races. Amongst the racers were two prominent currach builders from ...
  • Currach as work of art (5)

    Currach as work of art (5)

    01/11/2022
    While walking on Main Street in Dingle, I spied this strange creature. Looks a bit like a parasite on a stripped ...
  • Currach as work of art (4)

    Currach as work of art (4)

    01/11/2022
    While checking on currachs at Brandon Creek in October 2022, I took photographs of a sculpture commemorating St Brendan. There were ...
  • Exorcism in Curraghchase House.

    Exorcism in Curraghchase House.

    01/11/2022
    The following story comes from a diary written by Veronica and Mary Guillebaud who stayed during the summer months at ...
  • The Story of Castletown House, Celbridge

    The Story of Castletown House, Celbridge

    01/11/2022
    The ghost of a gentleman in a long grey coat was seen walking down a staircase, ten years before a ...
  • Currachs as pub decoration (1)

    Currachs as pub decoration (1)

    26/10/2022
    On my last trip to Dingle I found two beautiful models of fishing currachs in pubs, used for decoration. One ...
  • Racing currach model from Dingle

    Racing currach model from Dingle

    25/10/2022
    Brendan O’Connor with his model of a racing currach (90 cm x 18 cm). He was inspired by the work of ...
  • Ghost of ‘Bobby Bawn’ is still remembered

    Ghost of ‘Bobby Bawn’ is still remembered

    24/10/2022
    This story is reproduced with the kind permission of the Westmeath Examiner.  The name ‘Bobby Bawn’ may not be widely known ...
  • Limerick Leader Obituary: Commandant Owen O'Keeffe

    Limerick Leader Obituary: Commandant Owen O'Keeffe

    24/10/2022
    Obituary/ death notice for Commandant Owen O’Keeffe of Knockroe, Kilteely, County Limerick. Took part in Dromkeen Ambush, National Army during ...
  • Cromwell Guard

    Cromwell Guard

    24/10/2022
    There was an old Cromwellian fort in Wexford Town. We were always told a story of a local man who ...
  • An extra passenger

    An extra passenger

    24/10/2022
    My grandfather owned the village shop, Cahalane’s, in a little village called Drimoleague in west Cork, nestled between Bantry, Dunmanway ...
  • The True Story of a Dundalk Exorcism

    The True Story of a Dundalk Exorcism

    24/10/2022
    Cover image: Exorcism of the demons from Arezzo, Giotta / f_snarfel / CC BY-NC 2.0
  • The Tall Man

    The Tall Man

    24/10/2022
    I was cycling to work in the early morning many years ago along a country road. I was running late ...
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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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