History

The Aeriocht is not something of which we hear much today – they were held under the auspices of the Gaelic League in the outdoors and they were the same content and format as the Feis which came [...]

Thomas Loftus was born in the townland of Knockroe, Bonniconlon, Ballina, Co. Mayo on 19 September 1894 to John Loftus and Bridget Loftus (nee Gallagher). They had a small farm there.  A Company [...]

John Glen has been in Mayo recently in the past few months – he played the Hall in Glenamoy with Pat McKenna in December 2016 and the Hideout Lounge in Foxford in February 2017 and both nights [...]

It was my great privilege a few years back to meet the son of Ernie O’ Malley in the Grainne Uaile Newport at a lecture on his father entitled Fighting against the Pale and at this lecture a [...]

Doctor Kathleen Lynn was born in Mullafarry Killala Near Ballina in north Mayo in January 1874 to a well off Church of Ireland family and yet she would devote much of her life and career to the [...]

In the Ireland of fifty to sixty years ago there were very few cars and people had to walk, cycle or go by cart to the town and village to shop.  Then along came the motor car to the small [...]

A new scheme has been introduced by the Ballina Municipal area in north Mayo known as the Traditional Facades Grants Scheme.  The aim of the project is to provide funding to businesses that opt [...]

Recently I saw a piece in this paper about the possible use of the parochial house in Foxford as a community facility to welcome people who had travelled long distances to masses.  They would [...]

It is some thirteen if not more years that I began to write about the east mayo brigade and met an excellent character from the Kilkelly area to assist me Jimmy Duffy Jimmy knew most of the [...]

There was never much of a living to be made from a small holding in the west of Ireland and in Mayo in particular.  This meant that farmers from these areas had to leave for English farms to earn [...]