I recently received a message.  A reader of this website wonders if anyone recognises a poem that his father used to recite, called The Wedding Party.  I had a look through my resources and came up...

Earlier this year, I cleaned up an old photograph that I had encountered on the internet, of one of the beach areas at Portrush. This area was known as the ladies bathing place.  The image was...

Maghera was some seven miles from our farm. Fallagloon townland is on the western side of Maghera.  It starts about a mile from the village, and is known as being the longest townland in Ireland....

Here's a beautiful poem that I stumbled upon recently in an old Christmas Day 1866 edition of the Cork Constitution.  It's from the pen of the famous Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander, who, as the...

UPDATE - Apologies.  Still a little behind in my emails. When time permits, I am working currently on several very interesting articles.  Among them are areas and names, such as McKeown, Irwin,...

UPDATE - Thank you for your recent messages and photos.  As mentioned on the Contact page, I do not do private research (just do not have the time).  But occasionally I do take on some projects...