History

By 2030 the turf machines will no longer harvest turf or peat to burn in power generating plants so the news tells us. Turf was important during the war the Turf Board was established as a semi [...]

A special decade of commemoration has been organised by government.  It is a decade of centenaries that is there to remember the historic events that influenced Ireland from 1912 to 1923 and it [...]

My mother tells of how when they were young they would go to the dance in the local hall and on the way home they would go to the nearest wake house to keep the family company until day break and [...]

The United Irish League was founded on the 23rd January 1898 after a public meeting at the Octagon Westport, by William O’ Brien MP.  A broad range of nationalists was present.  The League [...]

Robert Briscoe was born in Dublin in September 1894 to Jewish Lithuanian parents and it is believed that the family name could have been Cherrick in Lithuania.  His father was a self – made man [...]

Fadó, bhiodh na daoine ag teacht le chéile chun cabhair a thabhairt dá chéile chun obair na feirme a dhéanamh.  Meitheal an tainm a bhiodh ar na grúpaí oibre seo.  Anois agus an samhradh linn is [...]

Is iomai oiche a chaithfidis cois tine sa teaglach ag caint agus ag seanchas ar feadh an tráthnoóna. Tá mo mhameo básaithe agus imithe ar shllí na fírinne le breis is seacht mbliana ach tá an [...]

Bearfaidh mé neart ama agat nó duit. I will give you plenty of time An muitheann tú mé? Do you hear me? Seo, beo, tioc. Come here to call an animal Ni thig liom I cannot Tá mo sháith agam anois [...]

Alfie Calleary was born in Killala on the 3rd October 1895.  He attended secondary school in St. Muredach’s College, Ballina and graduated from University College Galway with a BE in 1916 where [...]

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 [...]