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 14, 2014 | Delgany, Eamonn Darcy, Golf, Golf History, Greystones, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Irish Professional Championship, Michael Moran, Pat Doyle, Wicklow
Mark Frost’s 2002 book The Greatest Game Ever Played (later made into a film) is a somewhat fictionalised account of the 1913 US Open at Brookline, where the American amateur Francis Ouimet beat Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a play-off. Hidden in the background of this...
by Paul Gorry | Jun 20, 2014 | Bray, Christy Greene, Eamonn Darcy, Family History, Golf, Golf History, Greystones, Harry Bradshaw, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Irish Professional Championship, Martin Family, Pat Doyle, Ryder Cup, Wicklow, Woodenbridge |
When the golf craze really got going in Ireland in the last years of the nineteenth century it took root in Belfast, Dublin and pockets of activity mainly in coastal areas. Clubs that could afford to engage professionals had to entice them over from...
