Northern Ireland, bringing history to life
Enda, over at the Photos of Portglenone Facebook Group, contacted me some ten days ago. He is currently doing a themed set of photos on the local group about farming, and wanted to know if I had any …
Continue Reading about Haymaking – Richard, Willie and Stanley Mulholland
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 …
Continue Reading about Ballymena farmers enjoying tea break in hay field
A local Cullybackey man, named Calderwood, in the 1920s, wrote a poem about the essential contribution of the local farmer. The poem was published in a local newspaper (sadly long since …
Here's a great 1930/1931 photograph, supplied by Barry Mulholland, of the students at Pound School, the Grange, near Randalstown, in County Antrim. Mulhollands of Randalstown (the …
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Harvest time in Eden, near Portglenone, 1940s. There were very few tractors back in those days. Farm work involved hard labour. The summer time was especially busy. Featured in this old photo are …
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I recently encountered an old newspaper advertisement for Player's Cigarettes. It was from 1916. Long since all-but-forgotten memories of John Mulholland, of Eden, immediately flooded my thoughts. …
Continue Reading about Player’s Cigarettes & John Mulholland of Eden Portglenone
