1082. Photo evokes happy memories of times past
10/09/13
9:22am
Eye on the past
Journey to a place of pilgrimage. No 1079
20/08/13
8:54am
BOOKS open up avenues to places previously unknown and sometime suggest journeys never before planned. I was conscious of this after reading *****************Walsingham – A Place of Pilgrimage for All People************** written by Claude Fisher which I bought in a...
Poems of the Great War: Eye on the Past 1078
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1077: History written in our roads and buildings
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People I admire
EYE ON THE PAST 1065 LAST week I had occasion to reflect on the writers I have enjoyed over the...
A forgotten freedom fighter
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A hero of the Latvian nation
Centre helps us to value our heritage
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EYE ON THE PAST 1054: Remembering the voice of Sunday evening radio
THE recent death of Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin sent me searching amongst my sports books and in particular amongst the...
EYE ON THE PAST 1052: town mourns passing of two stalwart campaigners
WITHIN the space of a few weeks Athy has lost two of its most stalwart campaigners. You may think it...
Offaly St- A street of memories
DAVID Neill was half a generation ahead of me and so, although we were both of Offaly Street, we never...
A to Z of business in Athy
PORTERS Directory and Guide published in or around 1909 carried an alphabetical list of names of Athy businesses associated with...
Athy’s sole llink to 1916 ‘Rising
WE are facing into a series of centenary commemorations over the next 10 years or so. These will include the...
Passing of two community heroes
TWO people with whom I shared a friendship in recent years passed away last week. Pat Henshaw, born in Malta...
Shared memories of a past community
LAST week Gertie Healy was laid to rest in St Michael’s Cemetery. She had been absent from her usual place...
Remembering our war dead
THIS year’s Armistice Day, 11 November, coincides with Remembrance Day and so uniquely we can commemorate at 11 o’clock on...