Northern Ireland, bringing history to life
Just a quick mention, before getting started. To keep everyone abreast of the latest developments at One Irish Rover, plus links to lots more comments, I have added a new page to the top menu, to …
Continue Reading about William Marshall poem – Living in Drumlister
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
Here is a photograph of my mother, Eleanor Quinn, in a corn field in the late 1950s. This was taken on the family farm at Carrydarragh, just outside Moneymore. Corn fields were just a little …
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 …
During the second half of the 1800s, ploughing matches became a common event in the North of Ireland. In a search of old newspapers, reports of annual ploughing matches appear frequently across the …
