Athenry then and Now – Part 2
ATHENRY THEN AND NOW – PART 2 Source: Contact Magazine, December 1979 Author: Aggie Qualter ‘Often I think of this dear old town, and with joy that is almost pain,…
ATHENRY THEN AND NOW – PART 2 Source: Contact Magazine, December 1979 Author: Aggie Qualter ‘Often I think of this dear old town, and with joy that is almost pain,…
ATHENRY THEN AND NOW. WINDOW ON THE PAST. Source: Contact Magazine, 1980 Author: Aggie Qualter Athenry Parish has given many famous people to Church and State. In the fields of…
Source: Athenry Journal, Volume 2, Number 1, 1996 Twice yearly in Spring and Autumn, in parts of rural Ireland, a family would be host to the celebration of Mass in…
talks to Paul McNamara Source: Athenry Journal, Volume 2, No. 1, 1996 Farming is one aspect of life that has seen drastic changes in the last eighty years. The arrival…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
The Canton Hall, Church Street, Athenry. _____________________ Meetings and Minutes
Source: The Connacht Tribune – 3rd September 1932 ____________________________________