Jan 11, 2024
‘It used to be full of musicians up here,’ he says. ‘On both sides of the river, you’d hear them playing of a Sunday, with the dancing and all. I know there’s lots of musicians in the country now – look at the fleadhs and all the young musicianeers who go there – but...
Jan 11, 2024
Andy Duff was based in the Slane stables in County Meath for much of the 1960s where he was the principal jockey for trainer Tony Riddell-Martin. I interviewed him at his home in Slane Village in 2015, alongside his friend Benny McCabe, who was a stable boy at Slane...
Jan 4, 2024
Position: Midfield Place of birth: Valentia Island , Co. Kerry Date of birth: 4 January 1937 Year of interview: 2010 CLUBS Young Islanders Waterville Kerry (1956-1973) TITLES All-Ireland: 4 National League: 6 Munster Titles: 12 AWARDS All Star...
Dec 21, 2023
See here for more tales from the Vanishing Ireland archive. See here for more tales from County Offaly. ***** Paddy Heaney’s knowledge of the Slieve Bloom Mountains is outstanding. He has made it his business to know about every square inch of the 60,000-acre...
Dec 5, 2023
Ogie Nolan crouched beneath the speaker’s platform and watched with mounting astonishment as more and more Blueshirts piled into Enniscorthy’s Market Square. It was the summer of 1932, just a few months after de Valera’s Fianna Fail party had swept to power and...
