Atty Dowling (1916-2005) – Farm Labourer, Tobinstown, Co. Carlow

Atty Dowling (1916-2005) – Farm Labourer, Tobinstown, Co. Carlow

Vanishing Ireland – Atty Dowling from AWAY2TRAVEL on Vimeo. Atty would not be drawn into a discussion about his extraordinary tea towel collection. He just stoked the turf fire and changed subject. Now that he is dead and gone, the world will never know the...
Operation Shamrock

Operation Shamrock

On 27 July 1946, nine-year-old Hebert Remmel disembarked from the mail-boat at Dun Laoghaire and walked trancelike into the dense crowds gathered to greet him and the eighty-seven skinny and bewildered little boys and girls who had travelled with him. As he was hugged...