Ed Donley – The Presidents’ Advisor
The descendants of two men who emigrated from the tiny village of Ballyporeen within three years of one another after the famine remarkably went...
Kilworth – Music Mecca – 1963
I have just been flipping through ‘From the Candy Store to the Galtymore’ - stories from Ireland’s showband era by Dr Joe Kearney and...
Ballingarry Ringfort – A medieval settlement in County Limerick
Excavations by John Hunt 1949 -51
John Hunt, of Hunt Museum fame, had developed a keen interest in archaeology, participating on different excavations including the...
As my mam says …
By Oliver Stack
A cheerless sort of a morning, I was thinking to myself. It was, in my opinion, everything a morning shouldn’t be. Grey...
John Hyland reflects on a life well lived
When tractors began to make their appearance on the agricultural scene in Ireland in the 1920s and ‘30s, and moreso into the ‘40s and...
When Martin Corry TD fell foul of the Catholic Church
By Jim Fitzgerald, Chairman Knockraha History & Heritage Society
In any discussion of the War of Independence in Cork, the name of Martin Corry will invariably...
The tragedy of ’42
On the 6th September, 1942 battalions of the Irish Army were carrying out manoeuvres in Fermoy as part of major preparations for World War.
The...
The closure of Ballyheaphy National School in 1968
Ballyheaphy National School closed its doors 50 years ago this year (1968-2018). The decision to close it in 1968 was as a result of...
Groundhog days in the Kilworth Ranges
By Denis Morgan, Midleton
“We all have our own time machines, one is called memories, they take us back in time. The other takes us forward,...
Rural Electrification in Clondulane
By J.J. Bunyan
Sixty years have passed since the Rural Electrification Scheme was completed to deliver light and power to homes in Clondulane near Fermoy.
Many parts...
