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 …
Portrush needs improving!
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 …
Bradley – Uncle Kills Nephew in Disputed Meadow
❖ "I'd think no more of shooting him than I do of a whiff of tobacco smoke out of my mouth." — Patrick Bradley, speaking to Constable Chambers Maghera lay some seven miles from the farm I …
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Cecil Frances Alexander Poem – Lost for Gold
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 newspaper …
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William Butler Yeats Poem – The Second Coming
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, …
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Tramp the Dirt Down Hard, Ahoghill Church Yard Scandal
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 that …
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