cullybackey Archives — One Irish Rover

Faces of the Somme, 1st July 1916

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...

Photo of McFadden Family Glarryford

An interesting follow-up to the last week's article about an infamous Glarryford collector of other folks' property. A reader writes: [su_quote]Dear Trudger, do you know the identity of the...

Thomas Given – A Song for February

UPDATE - getting very slowly caught up with old emails. Doing lots of photoshop and research work most evenings. Works in progress on Warwick, Gilmore, Kearney, O'Reilly, Bamford, Thompson,...

Samuel Fee Given – Reminiscences

Before I begin. I think everything is now fully functioning again, after the switch to the new website server. Emails appear to have been caught up with. I hope that I have not missed...

Patrick Given – Somebody Thinking of You

During the lock-down last year, I started to read a lot more about the three exceptionally talented Given brothers from Cullybackey - Patrick, Samuel and Thomas. I'd been aware of the younger...

Edward Taylor of Cullybackey

Ken Wells, from Maryland, in the USA, would love to get more information on the Taylor part of his family tree in Cullybackey. The Taylors are buried in the Craigs churchyard just outside the...

About One Irish Rover

One Irish Rover focuses on the history and the people of the area in Northern Ireland where I grew up i.e. the Portglenone, Kilrea, Maghera and Tamlaght areas, in Counties Derry and Antrim.

My mother took many photos and saved lots of old newspaper cuttings. Many of these appear on this website.

I love to delve through old newspapers, discovering and piecing together local stories. You will find originally researched articles on this website, that aren't available elsewhere. Indeed, many of the old events have been pieced together, using various resources, and are now only being told fully for the first time.

I am also delighted to receive old photos, and stories. Feel free to drop me a line, via the Contact link (in the MENU above). Thanks for all your contributions.