Northern Ireland, bringing history to life
Here's a wonderful old poem that was submitted to the Ballymena Observer in September 1923. The poem was by a Portglenone person, and referenced local friends who fell in the great war. It’s …
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The Clady River By Harry Armstrong I have been to Derry City, that proudly strides the Foyle I have walked over Dublin's Liffey, on my way to see the Dail At Drogheda I’ve crossed the Boyne, like …
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Here is a lovely old photograph of Main Street in Portglenone, most likely taken in the late 1950s. It shows Sammy Simmons confectionary store, D.H. Chesney's petrol pump, Robert Aicken's …
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Henry Lynn poem from 1937 The Banks of the Clady Around the banks of Clady, it's a lovely place to dwell, With banks and braes and bonny glens, it's hard to bid farewell. I remember …
I recently came across this very old photo of Tamlaght O'Crilly Lower church (the one just outside the village of Innisrush). Among the many photos of this beautiful country church, this appears to …
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Oh Deer: The Great Portglenone Stag Hunt of 1849 Or, how a single bewildered deer contrived to get half of south Derry out of bed before breakfast — and a good few of them out of their …
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