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Rare historical records from Mayo will soon be available online - news - Western People

Activist Christy Henry, who died suddenly and tragically just a month before his 61st birthday, was a popular figure who campaigned tirelessly on behalf of his island community. He drowned after his car veered into a lake at about 8.30pm on October 6 at Inishbiggle, a small Atlantic island off the coast of Co Mayo between Achill and the mainland.

The loss of a man whose pride in his native island had no bounds will now be added to Inis Bigil’s rich cultural canon

Islander, who died after his car veered into a lake, was fiercely proud of his Co Mayo home

The island, which has no public toilets or cafes, has seen a daily average of just five or six visitors this summer

Historic property was once home to controversial Church of Ireland clergyman Edward Nangle

No Mow May originated in the United Kingdom as a way to support pollinators.

Controversy abounds about how much (or how little) the successive British governments did to stop Ireland's Great Hunger. Here are what some of the British ruling class said about the Irish Famine.

Keem Bay on the western-most tip of Achill Island is one of the most remote spots in Ireland and plays home to a deserted per-Famine village now revealed by teams of archaeologists.

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche.