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The Hudson Valley Irish Fest, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, returns to Peekskill’s Riverfront Green Park on Saturday, September 23. Advance tickets are now on sale for the annual Irish festival that features music, literature, kids entertainment, and more.
War in the streets - 100th anniversary of the Dromcollogher Ambush Reporter: 14 May 2021 The shop that replaced Murray's was the fine premises run by John Galvin. Now of course Meaney's Centra Supermarket trades on this site | PICTURE: dromheritage.ie '); '); TODAY marks the 100 year anniversary of the Dromcollogher Ambush, an incident from the War of Independence that took place on the streets of the village on May 14, 1921. A patrol from the local RIC barracks (the former St Mary’s Secondary school on the Cork Road) is described by the Irish Military Archives as comprising of sixteen m...
Down Memory Lane! Jim’s shop - gone but not forgotten! Reporter: news@limerickleader.ie Revington Stores, or Jim’s Shop as it was known locally, sold everything you could ever need Picture: Courtesy of Sean Curtin '); '); We came to live in our new home on the North Circular Road with our little baby daughter in the mid ‘70s. Although we were not aware of it at the time, we soon realised that our choice of location was really ideal. Revington Stores as it was then known was located on the North Circular Road just across the road from Fort Mary Park. Directly beside it on the left w...
Leamy in Focus! Life and times of little-known Limerick benefactor Reporter: nick@limerickleader.ie Pictured at the panels outside the former Leamy school in Hartstonge Street are designer Fionán Coughlan and Julie Long of printers GBM. Academic Dr Paul O’Brien put together the wording '); '); UTTER the words the Leamy School to many people in Limerick city and they will inevitably reference Frank McCourt, the landmark Tudor building in Hartstonge Street synonymous with the author. They’re less likely to be able to tell you about William Leamy, the generous benefactor whose financial ...
Murdered mayors of Limerick - Limerick’s distinctive contribution to Ireland’s quest for freedom Reporter: '); '); LAST SUNDAY marked the centenary of the deaths of Joseph O’Donoghue, Michael O’Callaghan and George Clancy. O’Donoghue was a young member of the IRA; O’Callaghan had just retired as Mayor of Limerick; and Clancy had just been elected Mayor of Limerick. The brutal killing of the three men by British Crown forces, particularly the savage deaths of O’Callaghan and Clancy in front of their terrified wives, made headlines all over the world. It made a particular impac...