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- December 26, 2023
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Brighter Homes Exhibition at Athenry (1909)
Source: Weekly Irish Times, Saturday 11 September 1909 That the cottager in many districts of Ireland does not make the most of his tiny dwelling place as a shrine of…
- December 4, 2023
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Athenry – A Brief History
By Finbarr O’Regan Athenry Journal Vol. 2 No.1 1996
- November 18, 2023
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Documents relating to claims to the Barony of Athenry (1827)
Athenry Peerage IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ——————————————————– CASE OF EDWARD BIRMINGHAM, OF DALGAN, IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY, ESQ. CLAIMING TO BE LORD BIRMINGHAM, BARON OF ATHENRY, AND Premier…
- April 29, 2023
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Smallpox in Athenry (1875)
Source: Galway Advertiser, Thursday February 10, 2022 – Thursday March 3, 2022 On March 2 1875, the medical officer of the Athenry Dispensary District, Dr WJ Leonard, wrote an urgent…
- March 6, 2023
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Athenry in 1843
Source: Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1843, Volume 10 Excursions in the West of Ireland, Ballinasloe-Athenry-Oranmore-Galway Courtesy of Frank Coyne, Park There are two routes to Galway from Ballinasloe. The one…
- March 5, 2023
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The Old Town of Athenry in 1713
The Old Town of Athenry in 1713 Source: The Tuam Herald, 15 July 1939 As readers of history know, Athenry was a walled town and had an ancient Corporation in…
- September 14, 2017
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Willie Caulfield’s Memories of Corbetts, Athenry (1955-1987)
Interviewed in August 2017. _____________________ Willie was born in Cregmore on the 10th of December 1929. His mother was Mary Coffey from Roundfield, Monivea; she died two weeks after…
- August 12, 2017
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Memories of Athenry by Pa Hall (of the Valley) 1992
(Recorded on the 27th of January 1992) My first knowledge of life in Athenry came when I went to the Nuns’ school in the Presentation Convent, where I was…
- August 3, 2017
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A Kind of Returned Yank
A Kind of Returned Yank By Gerry Whelan S.J. Nairobi, March 1997 I know the people of Athenry are well used to returned ‘Yanks’. Everyone seems to have a…
- August 3, 2017
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More Relish Remembers
More Relish Remembers By Sean Masterson I thank you for accepting my little memory story which I wrote in 1987 never expecting to share it with anyone who would actually…
