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There are many things that we take for granted in the countryside now that we did not have in the past and the tractor is one of them. Before this the ass and cart and the horse and cart were the [...]

Years ago when there were no televisions and very few radios then people would go visiting to each other’s houses. This was called rambling and later there would be a programme on the radio in [...]

The folklore collections of the various areas in Mayo tell us that there were several trades and crafts in the county over the years. They thatched houses and set bones and made wheels for carts [...]

The two teacher school is under threat due to falling populations in rural areas. These schools date back to the early to mid-eighteen hundreds. They were opened in the 1840’s and later schools [...]

Lent was the traditional time for no dances in former times. Yet the ballrooms of the country did not remajn silent they merely changed their form of entertainment when the people of the area and [...]

Mount Gable looms over all and nearby in the Joyce Country is Clonbur a small market town in the north west of Galway. There is an interesting feature in the town the Crane House or weigh house [...]

For six years I had no car and had to walk from place to place with the help of friends and relatives for a lift when needed. Imagine the time when people had to walk from place to place because [...]

It is Monday 31 August 2015 and Mayo has lived to fight another day as I leave Glasnevin Cemetery and Museum. I am reflecting on the previous day in Croke Park and how Mayo came back versus [...]