GALLAHER, David (Dave) (1873–1917), rugby footballer, was born on 30 October 1873 at Ramelton, Co. Donegal. Emigrating to New Zealand with his family in 1878, he lived at Tauranga before settling in Auckland. Educated at Katikati School, he showed an early aptitude for rugby and, at 6ft tall and weighing 13 stone, soon played for … Read more
The digital image archive constructed by Waterford County Museum has been awarded the Best Small Museum Web Site 2006 title at the prestigious Museums and the Web international conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 22–25 March 2006. The archive currently contains some 2500 historic photographs, sketches, postcards, paintings and drawings of County Waterford. The … Read more
The Lincoln County War of 1878 was really a battle fought between two business factions. Nowadays the weapons in such a contest would be advertising, pricing and shopping convenience. In the lawless territory of 1870s New Mexico, the weapons were more lethal. In the early 1870s Lawrence G. Murphy, an Irish emigrant and ex-Union Army … Read more
Two objects that sum up Ireland’s contrasting relationships with the First World War feature in a new exhibition on the Battle of the Somme that opened in France on 28 April 2006. 1916: the Battle of the Somme, an International Arena has been organised by the major museum on the Somme, the Historial de la … Read more
The Jackie Clarke Library spans nearly 400 years of Irish history and contains over 15,000 items: rare books, manuscripts, photographs, legal papers, pamphlets, handbills, newspapers, autograph books, news sheets, circulars, reports, letters, periodicals, cartoons, maps, minute books, theses, articles and proclamations. And it was put together during the lifetime of one man, Jackie Clarke, an … Read more