It's very difficult to find the motivation to write anything at the moment. The landscape seems so dark and the future so uncertain. Perhaps if I pinch myself hard enough, this will all have been...
By Carol from Derby in England When she was in her seventies, my great aunt, Rebecca (Neely) who was in England, had needed proof of age to draw her pension. She had not been able to obtain a...
I recently spotted, in an old newspaper, the death notice of a very old lady in Cullybackey. Martha Hanna was a stunning 126 years old when she died in March 1808.1808 Cullybackey - 126 Year...
Recently, while researching a different topic linked to the River Bann, I happened upon two old poems written in the late 1800s about this beautiful stretch of water. This late 1875 poem called...
In recent months, I have been working a fair bit on the photographs taken at the graveyards in and around Cullybackey. The research has also taken in very old newspapers and photo archives. This...
Late July 2019, the train took me back in time, up to Ballymena, and then a taxi the final four miles to Ahoghill. It's funny, I've been through Ahoghill many thousands of times over the years (due...
