History

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 [...]

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 car lights are all around me as I drive to Ballina through Bofield Cross and it is the evening of Big Market Monday or Luan an Mhargaidh Mhoir as the old people used to call it. The last [...]

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 [...]