BY AODHÁN CREALEY NOVEMBER 02/1847 Major Denis Mahon, proprietor of the Strokestown estate, was shot dead in the village of Doorty as he travelled home in an open carriage from a meeting of the Board of Guardians of Roscommon Union. Having inherited the 6,000-acre estate just two years previously, Mahon found himself landlord to almost … Read more
By Lorraine McCann The main collection of cemetery records held in Louth County Archives is the Dundalk Joint Burial Board collection for St Patrick’s Cemetery at Dowdallshill, Dundalk. St Patrick’s is one of two graveyards operated and maintained by Louth County Council, the other being the relatively new Newtown Cross Lane Cemetery at Newtownstalaban, Drogheda, … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr In 1925 Ireland experienced a period of food shortages and hardship, sometimes referred to as a ‘forgotten famine’. While not on the scale of the Great Famine, the year saw the newly independent Irish Free State grappling with widespread unemployment and economic depression following the War of Independence and the … Read more
By Tommy Graham Martin Mansergh was, and will remain, an important if understated figure on the national and, indeed, international stage; his achievements in those spheres, particularly with regard to the Northern Ireland Peace Process, will be documented elsewhere and will surely outlast him. I first met Martin in the summer of 2004 when I … Read more
The recent presidential election (not yet decided at the time of writing) put me in mind of the first election I can remember—Dev’s narrow victory over Tom O’Higgins in 1966. It is not widely known, but I actually campaigned in that election—for Dev. Other eight-year-olds and I ran around the schoolyard tearing up the glossy … Read more