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Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk in Ballingarry on 28th July. From the Ballingarry Facebook Page: You are invited to this year’s Famine 1848 Walk…
I have previously noted that online publications that do me the honour of publishing me tend to go out of existence. Another example was Miscellanea: A Transdimensional Library. It was…
Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Or, Reflections of an obsolete headshrinker by Bert Gallagher MB BCh BAO MRCPsych Published in what the author insists be referred to as the…
I previously posted this poem on the Ballymanus Mine Disaster, which happened on this date in 1943. My great-uncle died in this disaster, one of the neglected tragedies of World…
Originally posted on Beyond Post-Conflict Architecture:
What follows are the extensive notes from a paper on ‘LAND’ that the late architect Brian Anson gave at the Architectural Association (AA) in…
Ray is a townland a little beyond Falcarragh on the road to Dunfanaghy (near Joe & Anne Kane’s Studio) It boasts an ancient Irish Church site associated with Iona and therefore St Columba , and…
In Mahgeragallon cemetery, where my father, uncle, maternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents are buried, I came across the grave of Brian Anson. It is beside eight commonwealth war graves (three…
Thanks to Rory Naughton who has brought this family history on the Clare Co Council library page. John Cunningham gives an interesting and entertaining account of his father Michael’s life…
