Northern Ireland, bringing history to life
❖ …to be paid upon his conviction. — Saunders's News Letter, 9th August 1773 Go looking through the old papers for the earliest local killing — local meaning the Portglenone, Kilrea and …
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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 …
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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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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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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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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