Apologies, I have not been posting much in recent months. I have not been writing anything at all. But the creativity is still there, and I have been working in the evenings, on enhancing a lot of old photos, for future publication. I trust that you are all keeping well and managing to somehow navigate this mad world. By the way, thank you for the emails. They make it all worthwhile. We all, as...
I came across an old poem (see below) entitled To the Old Year, written on December 27th, 1884, by Susie Troland, a Coleraine lady. She was inspired by the year just ended, namely 1884. In Ireland in bygone years, I have vague memories of locals, in the rural community, going out shooting on New Year’s Day. You would also have heard a few shots (from a shotgun being let off) across Eden...
On looking through old newspapers recently, I encountered a fatal accident that occurred in Eden, during June 1885. It involved two friends, George Hill Wilson (who lived in the townland of Killymuck) and George Downing from Dreenan. Dreenan is my own townland, it borders Eden. [su_note note_color=”#ffe6c5″]Note, Killymuck means “the wood of the pigs.” Eden refers to...