County Mayo, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Mayo’s past.
Vanishing Ireland (Mayo people)
- Mike Burke (1926-2016) – Cattle Farmer – Kilmeena
- John Cooney (1922-2016) – Postman & Carpenter – Achill Island
- Very Rev. Patrick Gill – The Parish Priest of Lecanvey
- Paddy Heneghan (1922-2012) – The Ghillie of Delphi
- Mick King (1924-2013) – Farmer of Lanmore
Mick Lavelle (1930-2013) – The Entertainer of Westport- Jim ‘Tailor’ O’Malley (1925-2016) – Farmer – Kilsallagh
- Pat ‘Rua’ Reilly (fisherman, 1907-2007) Belmullet
- Willy Reilly (fisherman, 1914-2010) Belmullet
County Mayo – Family Histories
- D’Arcy of Gorteen
- Medlicott of Newport
- Yelvertons, Viscount Avonmore
County Mayo – Roots
- William Knox D’Arcy (1849-1917), Oil Tycoon
- Jack Judge (1872-1938) — The Ballyhaunis Roots of the Man Who Wrote ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’
- Joe Biden’s Irish Roots
- Grace Kelly (1929-1982) – Olympic Gold & Mayo Princesses
- Mrs Nixon, the First Lady from County Mayo
- Harrison Ford – The Hollywood Carpenter
County Mayo – Places
People connected to County Mayo
- St Gerald of Mayo and his links to Bewcastle Cross, Alhfrith, King of Deira (a son of King Oswiu of Northumbria) and St Oswald.
- Turlough O’Connor, High King of the Waterways
- William Browne – Father of the Argentine Navy
- Benjamin Benson – A Bermudan Evangelical in Ballina
- Father Patrick Lavelle (1825-1861) – The Patriot Priest of Partry
- Water-Tender John King (1862-1938) – The Two-Time Medal of Honor Recipient from Ballinrobe
- George Moore: The Man Behind Alfred Nobbs
- Jack Judge, A Long Way to Tipperary
- Graham Greene’s Achill Island Affair
- Johnny Meehan & the Spanish Civil War
- Patrick ‘Bob’ Gallagher (1944-1967) – Mayo’s Vietnam Hero
- Cora Staunton – The Star of Mayo Ladies Gaelic Football
Articles with a Mayo Connection
- An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
- Columba (521-592) – the Making of a Missionary
- A Short History of Irish Gold
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- From Holy Jerusalem to Holy Tuam: The True Cross, The Cult of John the Baptist and King Turlough O’Connor
- St Oswald and St John the Baptist – Two Heads are Bigger Than One
- The Normans on the Irish Waterways
- The Cistercian Order in Ireland
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- The Redlegs of the Caribbean
- The ‘Emancipator of Jamaica’ [Dubliner, 12/01]
- St Muredach’s of Ballina and the Schoolboy Strike of 1911
- Titanic – The Irish Connections
- Operation Shamrock
- The Big Snow of 1947, 1963, 1982 … and other major Snowstorms
- Rolling Around the Achill Sound (1999)
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- Waterways Through Time
- The Irish and the White House