The Ploughman Alone is King
Several hours last Saturday were spent, rather than writing up a weekend post, brushing out the flood…
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The Armstrong Letter from America
UPDATE – Apologies, I am several weeks behind in emails (nothing new there, says you). I tend…
The Foundered Farmer
These cold wintry days of mid January, with endless grey skies, made me think of my memories…
Tony Crockett, Who are Those Guys?
There is a wonderful old black and white photo in mum’s archives, of an assembly of people. …
Landlords’ Rights and Tenants’ Wrongs
I recently cleaned up an old photograph of a late 1800’s tenant eviction. This proved very timely…
Land Owners in Ireland 1870’s
Five months ago, in early November 2020, I decided to look more at the British government’s excellent…
William Marshall poem – Living in Drumlister
Just a quick mention, before getting started. To keep everyone abreast of the latest developments at One…
Haymaking – Richard, Willie and Stanley Mulholland
Enda, over at the Photos of Portglenone Facebook Group, contacted me some ten days ago. He is…
1950s Moneymore farm
Here is a photograph of my mother, Eleanor Quinn, in a corn field in the late 1950s. …
Ballymena farmers enjoying tea break in hay field
I put ‘Ballymena’ in the title, because google is probably fed up seeing ‘Portglenone’ in so many…
The Farmer by Mr Calderwood
A local Cullybackey man, named Calderwood, in the 1920s, wrote a poem about the essential contribution of…
The Ploughing Match at Ballymena
During the second half of the 1800s, ploughing matches became a common event in the North of…