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…
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…
APHby John Gaffney, Tysaxon Source: Athenry Journal Year by year we cross the viaducts which link the seasons. Likewise, we must cross the milestones as we progress through life. As…
APHEAMON MADDEN’S MEMORIES OF ATHENRY Noted by Helen Tully Eamon’s Memories were shared in November 2013. He said he would be 90 in March 2014. MADDEN’S FORGE Madden’s forge was…
APHInterview of Peter Jennings By Gerry Burke !st August 2017 —————————————————— Gerry: Peter I would like to start if you could tell me about your family history in Coldwood.…
APHInterviewed 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…
APH(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…
APHMore 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…
APHCourting Mary, Wedding Bells, A Yellow-Pack Honeymoon and the Home-Coming Mary and Frank Mary (right) on her Wedding Morning with sister, Rosie Courting Mary and drifting together Around this…