County Westmeath, highlighted.

Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Westmeath’s past.

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Vanishing Ireland (Westmeath people)

• JJ Hackett (1937-2017), harness maker & poet, Ballinakill
• Noel Robinson (born 1939), farmer), Coole
• Oliver Reid, bank manager, Athlone: A Vanishing Ireland podcast

County Westmeath – Family Histories

• Arabin of Moyvoughley, referenced.
• Beere of Streete, referenced.
• Dennis of Fortgranite, County Wicklow (Swift connection)
• Glanville of Tyrrellspass, Moate and Kinnegad
• Moffatt of Stonepark
• Swift of Streete, Lynn & Lynnbury
• Ua Muiregáin (Morgan) of Tethbae

People connected to County Westmeath

• Turlough O’Connor, High King of the Waterways
• Peg Plunkett – Mrs Leeson
• Edmund Malone & the Shakespeare Hoax, 1794-1796
• John ‘Old Turnip’ McClintock (1769-1855) of Drumcar, County Louth
• Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-1892) – No. 1 Bandmaster of the USA
• John Walsh & the Connaught Rangers
• George ‘McIrish’ McElroy, Irish Air Ace
• Charles Howard-Bury (1881-1963)
• Josephine Hart, Baroness Saatchi (1942-2011)

Places in Westmeath

• Notes on Athlone
• Notes on Mullingar
• Gertie Browne’s Bar, Athlone
• Murray’s Bar, Maghera

Articles with a Westmeath Connection

• An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
• The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
• Vikings on Irish Waterways
• Normans on the Irish Waterways
• The Royal Canal – Rise, Fall, Rebirth
• How Ireland’s MPs voted in the Act of Union in 1799 & 1800
• The Night of the Big Wind, 1839
• Titanic – The Irish Connections
• The Burning of Knockcroghery, 1921
• Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
• The Irish and the White House
• Waterways Through Time
• Waterways Through Time – Season 2
• The Shannon One Design Class – An Interview with Vincent Delany
• The Battle for the Oldest Pub in Ireland