by Paul Gorry | Aug 8, 2016 | Aldborough, Ancestral Lines, Ballykilcavan, Baltinglass, Charles Stewart Parnell, Chris De Burgh, Descent, Disney Family, DNA, Elizabeth Bowen, Family History, Genealogy, Hume Cronyn, Lady Gregory, Laois, Local History, Ralph Fiennes, Sarah Ferguson, Stratford Family, Stratford-on-Slaney, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill |
Aldborough memorial, St Mary’s Church, Baltinglass Oliver and Margaret Walsh may never have been internationally recognised figures, but they had a significant impact on the world. Were it not for them the Abbey Theatre might never have been founded, the word...
by Paul Gorry | May 20, 2016 | Aldborough, Baltinglass, Bridges, Cistercian, Crosbie Park, Fords, Liam Price, Local History, Mountneill, Richard Crosbie, Stratford-on-Slaney
Baltinglass Bridge, Co. Wicklow Old bridges have a strange way of blending into the landscape. Often we don’t notice them at all. Some of the smaller ones are camouflaged by greenery or hidden by road resurfacing. Larger ones are so familiar that they seem to have...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 4, 2016 | Baltinglass, Family History, Graveyards, Local History, Wicklow |
One of the most recognisable structures in Baltinglass is the tower in St. Joseph’s Graveyard on Chapel Hill. Standing almost alone beside the central pathway, it evokes thoughts of times gone by. There is a haunting picturesque quality about it. Familiar as it is,...
by Paul Gorry | Nov 2, 2015 | Genealogy, McDermott, Rootsireland.ie, Roscommon, Tulsk |
In the 1911 Census my great-grandmother, Bridget McDermott, was stated as having had 11 children born alive and 9 still living. I accounted for 10 of these children and, over the years, I tried to find the missing one. The parish register was patchy to say the...
by Paul Gorry | Oct 9, 2015 | Golf, Golf History, Golf Internationals, Great War, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Lionel Munn, Michael Moran, South Of Ireland, Walker Cup |
Photo © The University of St Andrews The 45th Walker Cup match, held in September, saw five Irishmen on the GB&I team for the first time ever. Gavin Moynihan had already played in the 2013 match, but the first appearances for Dunne, Hume, Hurley and Sharvin...
by Paul Gorry | Aug 28, 2015 | Golf History, Golf Internationals, Gwen Brandom, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Philomena Garvey |
The performance of Stephanie Meadow since turning professional bodes well for her future. She and Alison Walshe, the Galway-born American, have made it through to the final day’s play in a number of LPGA ‘majors’. Walshe was the first Irish-born player to do...
