Eye on the past
THE Irish National Land League, commonly called the Land League, was founded on 21 October 1879 at a meeting held...
Eye on the Past No. 1464 HE was born in 1901, the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1461 TOWARDS the end of November 1918 the local newspapers reported on the arrangements made...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1459 THE local G.A.A.club year of 50 years ago opened with controversy arising from the...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1458 MUCH has been written in the past week about the Kilmichael ambush, so much...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1457 IT’S one of my many regrets that I didn’t realise the elderly lady...
By Frank Taaffe THE local conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society has been doing extraordinary work within our...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1454 THE week started with the ‘Virtually Shackleton’ event on Saturday streamed from the Town...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1453 LOCAL history is all around us. It is in the buildings, the streets and...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1452 LAST week’s ********Kildare Nationalist*********** carried a news item concerning White’s Castle and an announcement...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1450 By Frank Taaffe IN years to come it may be described as the...
EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1445 By Frank Taaffe THE Leinster Express reported in September 1861 that Athy had 44...
By Frank Taaffe IT was reported in the local press as one of the biggest parades and pageants seen in...
By Frank Taaffe MIKE Robinson, born in this parish 77 years ago and now a long-time resident in Australia, sent...
By FRANK TAAFFE THIRTY-seven years have passed since Athy Museum Society was founded following a public meeting in the local...
By Frank Taaffe The Gordan Bennett race of July 1903 made Ireland, for a short time at least, the epicentre...
Eye on the past By Frank Taaffe IN a recent*Eye on the Past I made reference to Fr Mathew’s Temperance...
ATHY’S documented musical legacy stretches back to the 1880s with an extant account which records the existence of a band...
