Northern Ireland, bringing history to life
CHRISTMAS DAY SHOOTING TRAGEDY IN EDEN ROBERT LAMONT DEAD, WILLIAM MULHOLLAND CHARGED On Christmas Day 1912, in Eden, near Portglenone, a struggle took place as to which member of a party would …
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❖ Home from Australia at eighty-five, and to all the world a beggar. Nobody had thought to look beneath the bed. A Beggar Comes Home Hugh Kennedy came back to Coleraine from Australia about …
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud …
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Portglenone Primary School, on the Townhill Road, is where I spent the first years of my education. This would have been between the late 1960s and June 1976. It was very handy, because mum was a …
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My mother was captain, I believe, of the Magherafelt Technical hockey team. She was someone that always looked to the future and didn't often look back. Thus, she rarely mentioned her school days. …
It will be 57 years ago this forthcoming weekend since the awful events in Dealey Plaza. My parents said they were at a guest-tea (correct spelling?) in Innisrush Church Hall, on Friday 22nd …
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