IT was with relief tinged with a certain amount of pride that I learned within the past week of the imminent completion of a project which I initiated 13 years ago.
LAST April the eruptions from the Icelandic ‘Eyjafjallajokull’ volcano kept European airspaces shut down over a number of weeks affecting travel for millions of people across Europe.
A recent article in the Saturday edition of the Irish Times about Irishmen serving in the British Army sparked a vigorous debate in the following weeks in the letters pages of the paper.
THE recent availability of the 1911 Census of Ireland on the internet has provided an extraordinary wealth of material for anyone interested in family history or local history.
TWO CDs recently released by local singers have caught my attention.
SEVEN years ago I wrote an Eye on Patrick Moran, the County Roscommon man who worked in Athy some nine or ten years before he was hanged in Mountjoy Jail on 14 March 1921.
LAST week’s controversial goal in the Leinster final match between Meath and Louth which gave an undeserved victory to the Meath team brought back memories of a match played 71 years ago involving our own county team.
LAST Saturday representing Athy I joined representatives of local history societies from around the country in welcoming visitors of the Ulster Federation of History Societies to our county town of Naas.
SIXTEEN years ago I was approached by Eddie Matthews of the Eastern Health Board and asked if I would write a history of the local hospital, St Vincent’s.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the imminent erection of the ’98 Memorial commissioned over 12 years ago by Athy Urban District Council, as it was then known, is very welcome news.