Cross Border Air Ambulance Mission

In November 1973, it fell to me and my crew to respond to an Air Ambulance request to fly a patient by helicopter from Tullamore General Hospital to the Royal […]

ELLEN SHANAHAN LENNON

While “to the manor born” would no doubt be an exaggeration, my paternal grandmother Ellen Lennon, nee Shanahan, was definitely of bourgeois background in the Deise market town where she […]

The Kenny family from 1911 onwards

In 1911 Edward Kenny and his wife Anne lived with their four children, Elleanor (17 years), Josephine (14), Anne (6) and baby Edward (‘1 and 6⁄12’!), in No.1a Whitefriar Place, […]

Emmigrated

My grand father move to FRANCE during or after the independence of Ireland. Since he made is professionnel life and maried a french women who became my grand mother. I […]

Life of a Derry Nationalist

Matt Doherty was born on the 12th July 1872 in 5 Thomas Street Derry, second son of John Doherty and Catherine Mc Ilroy, who were married in St Columba’s Church, […]