Jan 28, 2022
‘I heard someone on the radio say how the first Ryder Cup was presented nearly a century ago. Now, that made me sit up straight because it was actually first presented in the year that I was born.’ A post office worker and philatelist recalls growing up in Naas,...
Jan 26, 2022
One of the best-loved faces in Westport, Co Mayo, the late Mick Lavelle was renowned for rolling up on a nearby seat in Matt Molloy’s pub and bursting into a ballad or a bawdy verse. He reckoned he knew the words to over a thousand songs, including ten about Donegal,...
Jan 26, 2022
‘I’m not bad for 91, am I?’, says Nana McKenny (née McEvoy), sitting back and exhaling deeply. [1] ‘Ninety-one years is a long time ago.’ It has been a long, long time since she delivered her first new-born cries in the old farmhouse at Callystown by Clogherhead on 17...
Jan 23, 2022
Two of my favourite Vanishing Ireland characters, a docker and an engineer from inner city Dublin who, after this interview was published in 2009, escorted me on a grand tour of the Dublin Docklands that we filmed for RTE’s Nationwide. Become a member of Turtle’s...
Jan 23, 2022
‘It was a very sheltered life, and it wasn’t always easy. But that was the way it was. You did whatever you had to do and there was plenty to be done’. Two Sisters of Mercy in Athy, County Kildare, look back over the nine decades since their childhood, and explain how...
