by Paul Gorry | Jan 10, 2020 | Baltinglass, Books, Genealogy, Local History, Stratford Family, Weavers' Square |
I sometimes think that I’m more familiar with people who lived in Baltinglass in the past than those who live here now. I mean people who were here in the nineteenth century in particular. It’s not that I communicate with their spirits or anything like that! I...
by Paul Gorry | Jul 22, 2019 | Baltinglass, Graveyards, Rathvilly, West Wicklow Historical Society |
I’ve been haunting St. Mary’s churchyard in Rathvilly on and off for the past few weeks. It’s surrounded almost entirely by houses, with the road to Tullow completing the circle, so it’s hard not to be seen. I’m sure people were wondering about the strange man...
by Paul Gorry | Apr 23, 2019 | Aldborough, Ancestral Lines, Baltinglass, Dennis Family, Descent, Fortgranite, Mountneill, Ralph Fiennes, Stratford Family, Stratford-on-Slaney, Winston Churchill |
A week ago I attended a marathon of an event. It lasted from 10.30am to sometime about 9pm, long after I had left. It was absorbing. It was full of surprises, good and bad. It was a glimpse into the past, and it said a lot about the present Irish economy. For...
by Paul Gorry | Aug 24, 2018 | Baltinglass, Family History, Local History, West Wicklow Historical Society |
The recent intense and prolonged heatwave experienced by Ireland reminded me of a short newspaper article I came across a few years ago. I included it in my contribution to the Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society, No. 6 (2011), ‘Miscellaneous...
by Paul Gorry | Apr 20, 2018 | 1798, Baltinglass, Derrynamuck, Glen of Imaal, Graveyards, Kilranelagh, Local History, Michael Dwyer, Presbyterians, Religious Denominations, Sam McAllister, Stratford-on-Slaney, Weavers |
If you were to take a photograph to capture the essence of Baltinglass you might think of a general view of the town from the Carlow Road, or one of the Abbey from across the river. But you’re as likely to think of the McAllister monument as your symbol of...
by Paul Gorry | Nov 10, 2017 | Baltinglass, Great War, Local History, Woodenbridge |
Those who died in the Great War (1914-1918) are commemorated each year on 11 November. Huge numbers of Irishmen enlisted to fight in the British Army, the Royal Navy or the forces of other countries in the British Empire. They joined and fought for a variety of...
