Here's an old wartime photograph, of Innisrush Primary School, during the 1940-1941 academic year. This took a fair bit of work in photoshop. STUDENT NAMES For the purposes of google and the...
In perusing old newspapers, one occasionally encounters some locally written poetry (which will often bring to life an era, and and the people of that time). Here's a delightful example of such a...
Aughnacleagh is a townland on the outskirts of Portglenone, in County Antrim. It is in the Barony of Toome Lower. The Irish name for Aughnacleagh is Achadh na Cleithe.Here is a wonderful old...
Poem – The Emigrant Ship – 1857, the sadness of leaving Ireland behind
The first mass migration of Irish people to the United States was caused by the famine. The failure in 1850 of Ireland's potato crop, wiped out by a devastating fungus, spurred a mass migration to...
Poem – Farewell to Craigmore, Hamilton Dickson Martin, Randalstown
Hamilton Dickson Martin, 1789-1855, was a teacher from Craigmore in Randalstown. In 1810, his 21st year, he left for the New World. But before leaving, he penned the following poem. There had...
Tamlaght O’Crilly Indoor Bowling and Table Tennis Awards Night
Some of my first major memories, are going to the bowls in Tamlaght with dad. This era would stretch from the mid 1970's to 1980 or so. One memory is of a beautiful, calm, moonlit night, going home...
