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There was a time when time was just that time and people got things done in season.  This was important in an agrarian society where the farm work had to be done at the proper time of year and [...]

Celtic settlement was the earliest influence in the development of towns and villages in Ireland. Glendalough is one of the best examples and the monks tended to build in remote spots and on the [...]

Jim Tobin started his career with “The Firehouse” in 1969, after singing with a local band in Co. Meath called “The Craftsmen”. He spent the next 12 years with them at the [...]

The Military Service Pensions Collection has made it possible for historians to chronicle the lives of people who took part in the fight for freedom and this is true of the person in this essay [...]

The majority of the street names in Ballina celebrate or commemorate the people who gave their lives for the cause of Irish Freedom from 1798 until 1923. These people either gave their lives [...]

I was born on the 29th December 1942 in the village of Ardery in the parish of Aghamore Co. Mayo which is three miles from Tooreen village where the late great Monsignor James Horan of Knock [...]

When I was in my late twenties and into my early thirties I stayed in a boarding house in Dublin in the north west of the city.  It was a comfortable house with 8 rooms, 3 wash area and a dining [...]

Michael Kilroy was born in Derrylahan townland, Newport on 14 September 1884. He was the son of Edward and Matilda Kilroy and one of ten in family. He was a carpenter and coachbuilder and learned [...]

The country house dances were once an important part of the social calendar of the rural parts around and indeed in Ballina. They were called balls and they were held to celebrate special events [...]

My mind goes back in time to the late 1980’s when Mayo were in the first All-Ireland since 1951 a- a total of 38 years. That year I was teaching as a trainee in Bofield School and I took the [...]