The Somme offensive in 1916 was one of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the First World War. With well over one million casualties and 300,000 fatalities, the five-month battle finally came to an end on the 18th November, 1916.…
Every once in a while, usually after a glass of red wine, I have a look at mum and dad’s old photos. They met in the late 1950s, in a hall over in Garvagh. Although dad was ten years…
1912 – In the Probate Court, Dublin, before Mr. Justice Madden, in the matter of the goods of Hugh Kennedy, deceased, Mr. Wylie (instructed by Mr. William O’Kane) applied on behalf of Hugh Kennedy for a grant of administration of…
The Coleraine chapter of my life began in 1990. It lasted over 18 years, before I left in 2008 for pastures new. Work back then involved travelling, each day, at all hours of the day and night, the 26 miles…