Tag: the port

I hope that you are all keeping well.  If you are struggling, please turn off the fear box.  Don't let the tyrants, that rule this world, grind you down. Re One Irish Rover.  Many thanks for...

Every once in a while, usually after a glass of red wine, I have a look at mum and dad's old photos.   They met in the late 1950s, in a hall over in Garvagh.  Although dad was ten years older,...

Earlier this year, I cleaned up an old photograph that I had encountered on the internet, of one of the beach areas at Portrush. This area was known as the ladies bathing place.  The image was...

The North Antrim coast, and the Glens of Antrim, are stunningly beautiful. A summer day in this part of the world is heaven. Visitors coming to the North of Ireland often focus their time on...

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...

A Scottish man, who referred to himself as “J. O’D. D." came over via ferry to Ireland in 1908 for a holiday, and travelled, via bicycle, along the beautiful North Antrim coast.  The Glaswegian...