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 Dr. John Crowley – the first TD for North Mayo recalled.
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted May 26, 2019

Dr. John Crowley – the first TD for North Mayo recalled.

Dr Crowley was a Medical Officer in Ballycastle for 33 years and is buried in Doonfeeney cemetery with the remains of his son, Finbar, who died at the age of three and a half years.  Dr. Crowley [...]

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 Down all my Dublin Days a memoir of the fair City by James Reddiough
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted September 3, 2018

Down all my Dublin Days a memoir of the fair City by James Reddiough

On the occasion of the Junior All Ireland Football Final I took the opportunity to visit a part of Dublin that I lived in some years back. That is Cabra and Phibsborough and the area around [...]

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 Playing football in the local fields by James Reddiough
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted February 27, 2018

Playing football in the local fields by James Reddiough

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 [...]

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 The Role of the National School in rural Ireland by James Reddiough
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted January 21, 2018

The Role of the National School in rural Ireland by James Reddiough

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 [...]

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 Celebrating Little Christmas – Oiche Nollaig Na mBan by James Reddiough
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted October 21, 2017

Celebrating Little Christmas – Oiche Nollaig Na mBan by James Reddiough

The 6th January is called the feast of the Epiphany but it has another name in Irish social history Little Christmas or Women’s Little Christmas or in the Irish language Oiche Nolliag na Mban. [...]

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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted October 6, 2017

The Career and Mission of a visionary priest by James Reddiough

The soul and body should be grateful for simple things like the daffodils in the garden and the sound of bird song and the pealing of the chapel bells from the nearby church of Attymass close to [...]

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 Recalling the Liturgical Festivals of Yesteryear with Jimmy Reddiough
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By James Reddiough
In Feature
Posted September 27, 2017

Recalling the Liturgical Festivals of Yesteryear with Jimmy Reddiough

On the Western People pages of the 7th June 1958 there is a short piece with the head line 500 Children Take Part in Big Display.  The event or display was the Foxford Liturgical Festival when [...]

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By admin
In Feature
Posted January 16, 2016

Are ye going to the fair at all?

[wp_ad_camp_1] The leaves are turning and the winter is nigh as I type this column on days gone by. As it gets colder and the time changes I am prompted to use the term mart weather for some [...]

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