Eye on the past
O’BYRNE CUP GROUP C – ROUND 2 KILDARE 4-19 CARLOW 1-10 By Richard Commins AN energetic Kildare were far too...
Thursday, 13/01/22 - 11:30pm
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THE Irish National Land League, commonly called the Land League, was founded on 21 October 1879 at a meeting held...
Sunday, 31/01/21 - 3:50pm
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Eye on the Past No. 1464 HE was born in 1901, the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...
Sunday, 24/01/21 - 2:00pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1461 TOWARDS the end of November 1918 the local newspapers reported on the arrangements made...
Sunday, 27/12/20 - 11:56am
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1459 THE local G.A.A.club year of 50 years ago opened with controversy arising from the...
Friday, 18/12/20 - 11:08pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1458 MUCH has been written in the past week about the Kilmichael ambush, so much...
Sunday, 13/12/20 - 12:07pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1457 IT’S one of my many regrets that I didn’t realise the elderly lady...
Sunday, 06/12/20 - 1:35pm
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By Frank Taaffe THE local conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society has been doing extraordinary work within our...
Sunday, 29/11/20 - 10:01am
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1454 THE week started with the ‘Virtually Shackleton’ event on Saturday streamed from the Town...
Saturday, 14/11/20 - 10:45am
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1453 LOCAL history is all around us. It is in the buildings, the streets and...
Friday, 06/11/20 - 12:45pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1452 LAST week’s ********Kildare Nationalist*********** carried a news item concerning White’s Castle and an announcement...
Sunday, 01/11/20 - 2:00pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1450 By Frank Taaffe IN years to come it may be described as the...
Wednesday, 14/10/20 - 7:30pm
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EYE ON THE PAST NO. 1445 By Frank Taaffe THE Leinster Express reported in September 1861 that Athy had 44...
Sunday, 20/09/20 - 10:00am
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By Frank Taaffe IT was reported in the local press as one of the biggest parades and pageants seen in...
Sunday, 06/09/20 - 11:00am
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By Frank Taaffe MIKE Robinson, born in this parish 77 years ago and now a long-time resident in Australia, sent...
Wednesday, 19/08/20 - 12:01am
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By FRANK TAAFFE THIRTY-seven years have passed since Athy Museum Society was founded following a public meeting in the local...
Saturday, 01/08/20 - 4:21pm
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By Frank Taaffe The Gordan Bennett race of July 1903 made Ireland, for a short time at least, the epicentre...
Sunday, 26/07/20 - 2:05pm
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Eye on the past By Frank Taaffe IN a recent*Eye on the Past I made reference to Fr Mathew’s Temperance...
Sunday, 19/07/20 - 10:07am
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