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- March 20, 2026
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Fields of Athenry – Original version (1888)
Source: www.alansim.com By a lonely prison wall I heard a sweet voice calling, “Danny, they have taken you away. For you stole Travelian’s corn, That your babes might see…
- June 22, 2017
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Frank Coyne’s Memories – Part 3
Social Life in the 1950s/1960s, No ‘Hanky Panky’ and “Respectable Ladies Do Not Sit on Gentlemen’s Knees’’. Subsistence farming and renewed acquaintances Meanwhile, back at the ranch,-to quote the…
- January 22, 2016
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WILLIAM “BILL” O’TOOLE
Musician from Coldwood By Gerry and Mary Mulvihill Source: ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal, Vol. 1, 1995. “Music, oh how faint. how weak, Language fades before thy spell, Why…
- January 22, 2016
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Kevin Rohan – Musician/Singer
By Gerry Mulvihill Source: ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996. The small townland of Taiquin or Tigh Da Conna, set about six miles from the…
- January 21, 2016
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The Swingtime Aces
Source: Athenry ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal No. 2, 1995 On September I4th 1972, The Swingtime Aces gave its final performance in The Carousel Club, Manchester. There ended fifteen…
- August 28, 2015
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Athenry Town Hall by Joan Murphy
Source: Athenry Fás Teamwork Scheme 1991-1993 Team Leader; Mrs. Marie fahy Scheme Sponsor: Athenry Project Society The Athenry Town Hall, Clarke Street, Athenry, licenced for the showing of Films and…
- September 27, 2014
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Seisúin Baile Ath an Rí
Source: Contact Magazine, May 1980 Seisúin Athenry was set up in October 1979 to promote Irish music song and dance in Athenry and in East Galway generally. The principal activity…
