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NAAS LORD EDWARD BANNER
The 1882 Naas Banner. a note by Mario Corrigan Photo: Mario Corrigan 28 May 2003by kind permission of Declan Kirrane Naas UDC From the Leinster Express and the Kildare Observer newspapers it appears...
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NAAS, IRISH NATIONAL VOLUNTEER BANNER
INV banner a note by Mario Corrigan [The real historian of the banner is Stan Hickey who gave a copy of the photo to me and a lightning-fast explanation (today 23 Feb 2008) of how it came to be...
View ArticleAERIDHEACHT AT KILDARE 1910
Aeridheacht at Kildare 1910James Durney In June 1910 thousands attended one of the most successful Aeridheachtanna – an open air gaelic fete – that had been held in the Province since the revival of...
View ArticleTHE ENDURING FASCINATION OF MAPS AND MAP-MAKING
The enduring fascination of maps and map-making New book: If Maps Could Speak by Richard Kirwan. Brian Friel’s groundbreaking play Translations, on the theme of the Ordnance Survery in Ireland, was...
View ArticleDOWNED AT TACUMSHANE
Downed at Tacumshane James Durney On 3 March 1941 a German air force Heinkel 111H-5 made a forced landing at Tacumshane, Ladies Island, Co. Wexford. Lieutenant Alfred Henzl’s bomber had been hit during...
View ArticleART O’CONNOR. THE PRESIDENT FROM KILDARE
Art O’Connor. The President from Kildare James Durney While we have had many presidential visitors to Co. Kildare it is not very well known that one of our own countymen was President of the Republic,...
View ArticleTHE SAORSTAT CENSUS 1926
Kildare Observer 10 April 1926The Saorstat Census INTRICATE WORK NOW IN PROGRESS The work of compiling the 1926 census of the Irish Free State is going ahead energetically. All the forms have now being...
View ArticleFUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR LT. J.H. WOGAN BROWNE 14 FEBRUARY 1922
Funeral arrangements for Lt. J.H. Wogan Browne 14 February 1922 Orders by Colonel Commandant W.B.R. Sandys C.B., C.M.G.Commanding 5th Divisional Artillery—————————————————Curragh Camp. 12th Feb. 19221....
View ArticleGABRIEL HAYES, SCULPTOR AND ARTIST
Gabriel Hayes, sculptor and artist James Durney When Irish currency went decimal in 1971 a little-known fact of the process was that several of the coins were designed by the Kildare sculptor and...
View ArticleTHE GATHERING BY JOE KENNEDY
The Gathering For many years the Irish were forced out of their home And like the wandering nomad’s they started to roam In far foreign countries a living to find With thoughts of their family’s and...
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