Derrynamuck and Cocoon: only four degrees of separation

by | Jun 10, 2019 | 1798, Derrynamuck, Dominick Blake, Glen of Imaal, Hacketstown, Hollywood Stars, Hume Cronyn, Hume Family, Humewood, Irish Migration, Kiltegan, Michael Dwyer | 4 comments

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...

Family Connections

by | 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 | 3 comments

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...