NO ORDINARY WOMAN. HETTY BEHAN OF RATHANGAN

April 27, 2023

NO ORDINARY WOMAN. HETTY BEHAN OF RATHANGAN

No Ordinary Woman. Hetty Behan of Rathangan Karel Kiely Harriett (Hetty) Behan was born on 27 January 1903, at Rathangan, Co. Kildare, daughter of Patrick Behan (labourer) and Julia Lee. She first worked for the Pig Marketing Board. A founder member of Fianna Fail, she was later employed with James O’Mara and Sons, bacon merchants, Limerick, and then the Irish Press newspaper. She worked for Sean T. O’Kelly when he was a T.D. for a Dublin constituency, before working as […]
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BEASLEY THE HERO AS IRELAND EMERGES FROM WAR

April 18, 2023

BEASLEY THE HERO AS IRELAND EMERGES FROM WAR

Beasley the hero as Ireland emerges from war … Punchestown 1923 By Liam Kenny Armed troops patrolling the streets of Naas … Civic Guards stationed at twenty-yard intervals … aircraft observing from above … not the normal picture in Kildare’s county town on the eve of a Punchestown racing festival but then, 100 years ago, things were anything but normal. The years from 1919-23 had seen Ireland convulsed by the “troubles” as the birth pangs of the new Irish State […]
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A NAAS RESIDENT AND HIS VICTORIA CROSS

March 31, 2023
Naas Resident and Victoria Cross

A NAAS RESIDENT AND HIS VICTORIA CROSS

A Naas resident and his Victoria Cross. The story of finding the final resting place of Corporal John Lyons V.C. (Deceased 1867) John Gibson As a result of Covid restrictions I turned my genealogy research pastime into an everyday occurrence spending hours on the computer doing genealogy research on my own family and for friends. I also had an interest in military history having served for 36 years in the Army Reserve of the Irish Defence Forces. I was stationed […]
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HISTORIC REUNION OF CANAL BARGEMEN

March 22, 2023

HISTORIC REUNION OF CANAL BARGEMEN

HISTORIC REUNION OF CANAL BARGEMEN Leinster Leader, October 18, 1986 The canalside village of Robertstown returned to its former glory for a few hours on Sunday week. It was just like the old Scottish legend in the musical Brigadoon as over two hundred bargemen and their families converged on the quiet village by car, bus, and “shanks mare” for the first ever reunion of canal bargemen. The idea was mooted by local and former bargeman Paddy Kane, and brought to […]
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MR. M. DOOLEY, ATHY

March 20, 2023

MR. M. DOOLEY, ATHY

Nationalist & Leinster Times 9 June 1967 Mr. M. DOOLEY The death occurred at Naas Co. Hospital on Sunday of Mr. Michael Dooley, 10 St Michael’s Terrace, Athy, aged 53 years. He was a member of an old and respected local family. He was husband of Mrs. Mary Dooley, formerly a Miss Logan of Dundalk, who before her marriage was attached to the teaching staff at Barrowhouse, N.S. He was father of John, Peadar, Michael, Donald and Jimmy and of […]
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CO. KILDARE HERITAGE IN 3D

February 24, 2023

CO. KILDARE HERITAGE IN 3D

Co. Kildare Heritage in 3D In recent years the technologies available to document objects, monuments, buildings, and landscapes in three-dimensions, have improved in accuracy and become more affordable. As a result, three-dimensional representations of heritage objects and monuments are fast becoming ubiquitous in heritage interpretation and dissemination. County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups have added a K3D section to their website to bring together in one place a selection of 3D models of Co. Kildare heritage objects and monuments. […]
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NATIONAL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS – A TRACTOR PULLING CONTEST

February 22, 2023

NATIONAL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS – A TRACTOR PULLING CONTEST

NATIONAL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS.  A TRACTOR PLOUGHING CONTEST Leinster Leader 15 January 1938 The National Ploughing Association has decided to include Tractor-Ploughing contests on a National scale in the National Ploughing Championships in the future years. On February 10th at Carlow the competition will take the form of a contest between teams of three operating Fordson, Lanz, and Allis-Chalmers Tractors. The cream of Ireland’s tractor ploughmen will handle the outfits and great interest is being taken in the proposal. The Director […]
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THE APPALLING POVERTY OF COUNTY KILDARE

February 15, 2023

THE APPALLING POVERTY OF COUNTY KILDARE

This article from the Leinster Leader of 1931 gives an indication of the extreme poverty and hardship experienced by a section of the population in the first decade of the new Irish State. The withdrawal of the British Army and subsequently the Irish Army from the towns of Naas and Newbridge in particular – where they had indirectly and directly employed hundreds of people – along with the long-term economic cost of the bitter Civil War, a struggling Irish economy […]
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MR. PADDY RYAN, MANCHESTER

February 13, 2023

MR. PADDY RYAN, MANCHESTER

Obituary Mr Paddy Ryan, Manchester Leinster Leader 10 September 1977 The death took place recently in Manchester of former Kildare star footballer Paddy (‘Darkie’) Ryan. Native of Milltown, Newbridge, he was aged 73. He cam on a s a sub. in the famous 1937 All-Ireland Football Final when Kildare beat Kerry, and was a member of of the Kildare senior football team for may years after that. He won many trophies and honours with the Army Metro team during his […]
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AUTOGRAPH BOOKS. RATH CAMP (1921) & TINTOWN CAMP (1923)

February 10, 2023

AUTOGRAPH BOOKS. RATH CAMP (1921) & TINTOWN CAMP (1923)

Two autograph books from the Rath Internment Camp (1921) and Tintown Internment Camp (1923) are now online. Autograph books were kept by many prisoners. They had become a popular item during World War I, used by soldiers to gather signatures of their battalion comrades or fellow prisoners in Prisoner of War camps.   In the Curragh internment camps autograph books provided internees with an outlet in which to express themselves using drawings, poetry and songs. They also contain prisoners’ names, addresses, […]
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