APHSource: Times Pictorial, Week ending October 18, 1952 IN some parts of the west, they told me to by-pass Athenry on my way back to the east. “Athenry is dead from…
APHSource: 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…
APHBy Tony Waldron Born in Mulpit in 1895, parents Michael and Rose, he was the first of 9 children. What he done will tell you more about him and what…
APHSource: Tuam Herald 20 August 1859 The war-cry load is echoing- loud the trumpets sound to-day And Connaught’s pride in martial guise a glorious sight display: Full many a…
APHFreda McGough The gentle Sr. Leo (Patricia Hackett from Headford) was my lucky introduction in 1950. to Presentation Convent, Athenry. Having come from a small, two-teacher country school in Belclare, Co. Galway…
APHAthenry Correspondence Author: Vincent J. Carlyle Source: Galway Express, 1901 The present year shows fresh prospect of a most bountiful harvest, ‘and no doubt the surrounding, tenantry have everything to…
APHPapal 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…
APHParish Pride Source: The Tuam Herald, Saturday, April 5,1997 Photos: Herald Staff Photographer Ray Ryan St. Patrick’s Day, 1997 — the All-Ireland hurling club final and nothing will ever be…
APHAthenry’s Titanic tragedy still hard to comprehend Source: Tuam Herald, Wednesday April 11, 2018 Brothers are last first generation relatives of Andy Keane, the drowned hurler Two elderly brothers in…
APHHenry George Arrest at Athenry (1882) Part 1 Introduction: Henry George Source: ‘Progress and Poverty’ – Henry George and Land Reform in modern Ireland, The Irish Story, Irish History…