by Irish Beo Author | Jan 14, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In old age the Honourable Edith Dillon Mahon, daughter of Lord Luke Dillon, fourth baron of Clonbrock, wrote a fascinatiing account of her childhood memories at the ancestral home in Ahasragh county Galway during the late Victorian period when the Anglo-Irish...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 14, 2010 | Servants & Farmhands
Phil Molloy was hairdresser to the Honourable Ethel Dillon during the...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 1, 2010 | Stories from the old Schoolhouse
Stories from the old Schoolhouse In this episode children from Creggs National School interview Harry Delaney about his early days at the school from 1929, the subjects then taught, walking to school barefoot and working on the family farm. ...
by Irish Beo Author | Dec 4, 2009 | Stories - Rural Life
In the second part of his interview Tom Joe talks about his skepticism of ghost sightings in Cappataggle, the importance of crops to local farms during his younger days, and his views on the future of agriculture in today’s Ireland ...
by Irish Beo Author | Dec 4, 2009 | Stories - Rural Life
In the second part of his interview Lennie talks about life in the rural district of Carrabane in the 1940s and 1950s when the tradition of neighbourliness and community self-help was very strong. He also provides some delightful insights into the social aspects of...
