Dec 20, 2023
The Fureys The Fureys, one of Ireland’s best loved folk bands, was formed by four brothers who grew up in a Traveller campsite that once stood opposite Cherry Orchard Hospital, north of this station.[8] Raised in a wagon, they were taught music by their father Ted....
Dec 16, 2023
The King’s Confessor Perhaps the most remarkable baby born at The Rectory in Edgeworthstown was Henry Essex Edgeworth, later Abbé de Firmont, who served as a priest to the poor of Paris during the 1780s.[1] Following the French Revolution, he gave Louis XVI of...
May 9, 2023
The stories of Ernest Shackleton, a saviour ape, a Scottish invasion of Kildare, a World War One hero, a bare knuckle champ, amongst others, from the very first Past Tracks panel – installed in 2019 and illustrated by Derry Dillon. Nationwide filmed an episode...
May 17, 2022
Like Paddington Bear, the Past Tracks project came to life on a railway platform. In fact, so did Algernon Worthing in Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Ernest.’ I was standing on the platform at Hazelhatch, near Celbridge, County Kildare,...
May 17, 2022
Featuring accounts of Ellen, Countess of Desart; Mick Jagger; Hubert and Peggy Butler (of Butler Gallery fame); Lionel of Antwerp & the Statutes of Kilkenny; Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley & Kilkenny College; Martin Renehan – White House Doorman; and...
