Here is a photograph of my mother, Eleanor Quinn, in a corn field in the late 1950s. This was taken on the family farm at Carrydarragh, just outside Moneymore. Corn fields were just a little …
1740 Protestant Householders Returns in County Londonderry
Back in 1740, a census was conducted in Ireland of Protestant Householders. This list of data was compiled by the collectors of the Hearth Tax. Unfortunately the original records were destroyed in the …
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Antrim Coast – 1908 Feis in Waterfoot
A Scottish man, who referred to himself as “J. O’D. D." came over via ferry to Ireland in 1908 for a holiday, and travelled, via bicycle, along the beautiful North Antrim coast. The Glaswegian paid a …
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Old Ballymena Photograph and 1851 Poem
As many of you know, I take great pleasure in cleaning up and enhancing old photographs, using photoshop and other software. The following photograph of old Ballymena is most likely from around the …
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Ballymena farmers enjoying tea break in hay field
I put 'Ballymena' in the title, because google is probably fed up seeing 'Portglenone' in so many of my titles! Ballymena would be the nearest large regional town, about 13 miles away. Magherafelt is …
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Village Fairs in Ireland
LETTER TO EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN WHIG Sir, Nearly every village in Ireland has a fair, held for the most part once a month. The fair is generally held on the street, a fair green being an …