It's funny, when you are looking for something directly, you often can't find it. But when you aren't looking, you discover it. If you recall, we recently covered the awful Christmas Day shooting …
Old Ulster Voices and a Golden Wedding Anniversary
Apologies for the delay in responding to recent emails and those who have been in touch via the website's contact form. It's been 8 days or so here, without laptop access to the internet. Windows 10 …
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March – in like a lion out like a lamb
The Irish are well known for always talking about the weather. This is hardly that surprising given that we have as many as five different competing weather systems, that can give us four seasons in …
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Dancing in Ireland in the 1950s
My father, Richard Mulholland, died some years ago. In recent years, two of his siblings have also passed on. There is now only one left. Sammy Mulholland, who lives at the top of Portglenone, …
1946 – Portglenone Rectory’s Undelivered Polish War Letter
It's always nice to get correspondence. I was contacted several months ago by Iben Olsen, a stamp collector from Denmark. He had a fascinating old envelope in his possession, sent by the …
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Carrig-Na-Cule Hotel Portstewart
A Moment in Time My parents, Richard Mulholland and Eleanor Quinn, got married in the summer of 1961. After the wedding at First Moneymore, the wedding party drove the 34 miles northwards for the …