Aug 8, 2025
See here for more tales from the Vanishing Ireland archive. See here for further tales from County Tipperary. ***** Born in 1946, Seanie Quinlan is a man from the Otherworld. Perhaps that’s because he has spent so much of his life attending to those bound for...
Aug 8, 2025
See here for more tales from the Vanishing Ireland archive. See here for more tales from County Offaly. Matilda McByide is a hunting shooting and fishing sort of a woman. That’s part and parcel of being a sheep farmer born and reared in the Slieve Bloom Mountains....
Feb 27, 2025
‘Farming never paid around here,’ says Pat Green, as the evening sun spreads over the barren rocks beneath his Connemara home. ‘Just look at the colour of that land! It is not great by any means. There are more rocks than soil. Even if you had a thousand acres, you...
Feb 27, 2025
‘When the old people were here, there was always someone to look after everything. There were hens and the goose and the gander, cattle and sheep, and the land was always clear. But when my generation went to London working, we forgot our own village, our own house,...
Feb 27, 2025
Farm Labourer & Trap Driver Kilsheelan, County Tipperary For the first eighty-one years of his life Joe Hanrahan did a pretty good job of keeping his eminence relatively confined. Sure, most people who lived in and around the Suir-side town of Kilsheelan knew...
