Top: Carlingford, Co. Louth, the main town on the Cooley Peninsula, with Slieve Foy in the background.
Bottom: Deirble s Twist, Fallmore, Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo. Images: Tourism Ireland.
By Darina Molloy
Mayo on the west coast and Louth on the east, boast some of the most historic sites in Ireland, and now locals living in the area of the Cooley Peninsula and Ballina can expect many the curious traveler on the trail of President Joe Biden’s Irish ancestors.
(All images: Tourism Ireland).
Wee Louth and Mighty Mayo – what do they have in common? Well, certainly not their size nor their location in Ireland, but as it happens, they share one very important son: President Joseph Biden. With his mother’s Blewitt ancestors hailing from Ballina, County Mayo, and her Finnegan family traced back to the Cooley Peninsula, Co. Louth, the 46
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RELATIVES OF MICHAEL Collins have come out to criticise the decision not to display in the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) the cap worn by the revolutionary leader when he was killed.
The cap was previously displayed alongside Collins’ coat in the museum in Kildare Street from 1991-2005 but does not feature in the permanent exhibition in the barracks that bears his name on Dublin’s northside.
That exhibition also features his death mask and several other key objects associated with his life.
Collins was shot in the head in an ambush in Béal na Bláth and the cap has an opening on the back where the bullet passed through. As a result, the cap is bloodstained and brain matter is also present.