by Paul Gorry | Jan 4, 2024 | Butlers Bridge, Castlewellan, Cavan, Derry, Down, Drumalure, Family History, Genealogy, Greer Garson, Hollywood Stars, Kilrea, Kilrea, Londonderry, Timaconway, Timaconway |
Greer Garson was one of the great stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was an Oscar nominee seven times, winning for Mrs. Miniver (1942). Years ago the official story was that she was born in County Down in September 1908. The studios often invented back...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 5, 2021 | Alice Terry, Genealogy, Hollywood Stars, Rex Ingram |
It’s now exactly a hundred years since the name Valentino was first noticed by cinema audiences and became synonymous with romance. On 6 March 1921 the silent motion picture The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had its first public showing at the Lyric Theatre in New...
by Paul Gorry | Jun 10, 2019 | 1798, Derrynamuck, Dominick Blake, Glen of Imaal, Hacketstown, Hollywood Stars, Hume Cronyn, Hume Family, Humewood, Irish Migration, Kiltegan, Michael Dwyer |
On a cold February night in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow, in 1799 it would have seemed unimaginable luxurious to those trying to stay warm that people in the future would swim in heated man-made pools. Rebels on the run hardly thought about such things. Telling...
by Paul Gorry | May 13, 2017 | Ancestral Lines, Baltinglass, Descent, Disney Family, Family History, Genealogy, Hacketstown, Jones Family, Methodists, Newtownsaunders, Walt Disney, Weavers' Square |
It’s well known that the family of Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and all that sparkles, came from north Co. Kilkenny. But Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, had a very close connection with the Disney family. One of them lived in Baltinglass for many years. Mary...
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...
