Professor Tom Fahy – Interviewed on his Retirement
Source: Connacht Tribune 1 March 1958 REV. PROF. T. FAHY, M.A., B.D., who has retired from the Chair of Ancient Classics in U.C.G. after 30 years, was born in the…
Source: Connacht Tribune 1 March 1958 REV. PROF. T. FAHY, M.A., B.D., who has retired from the Chair of Ancient Classics in U.C.G. after 30 years, was born in the…
Source: 1846: Slater’s National Commercial Directory of Ireland Athenry is a small incorporated market and post town and parish, partly in the baronies of Clare, Dunkellin, Kilconnell, and Tyaquin, but…
Historic Abbey of Athenry Source: The Connacht Tribune, Friday, July 26, 1991 1991 marks the 750th Anniversary of the coming of the Dominican Friars to Athenry and the Anniversary will…
Papal Nuncio’s Visit to the West Source: The Connacht Tribune, Saturday, August 2, 1930 Addresses Presented: Athenry Welcome His Excellency had travelled by train from Dublin to Athenry, where he…
National Board of Education – Dr. Philpotts and the Friar Source: Chester Chronicle, Friday 08 September 1837 The reader need not be told that, during the entire of the last…
President The Very Rev. Doctor Smyth O.S.D This Establishment will be opened for the reception of Pupils on the 4th of August, the Festival of St Dominick The main object…
Source: Notes by Donal Taheny Athenry 1241-1698 The Dominican Order was founded by St. Dominic. The first Irish foundations were made in Dublin and Drogheda 1224. The first foundation inConnacht…
SOURCE: THE TUAM HERALD, 5th SEPTEMBER 1868 Sr. Dominic’s Day at Esker – On Tuesday, 4th August, the good and pious Catholics at Esker, and for miles around it –…
by Tony Galvin of The Tuam Herald (1994) Esker Monastery, one of the great survival stories in Irish ecclesiastical history, is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Consecration of its…