Notes on Greystones, County Wicklow

Notes on Greystones, County Wicklow

Highlighting the local links to Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, and Kitty Kiernan, as well as the La Touche family, Count Michael Kutuzov-Tolstoy, Averil Deverell, Taylor Swift, Ronnie Drew, Waclaw T Dobrzynski, Lizzie Burnaby and Shane Ross. Become a member of...
Notes on Portmarnock, County Dublin

Notes on Portmarnock, County Dublin

  See here for other stories of Dublin   *****   The Pirate Station   Sunshine Radio, the most successful super-pirate radio station in Irish history, operated from Tamango’s nightclub at the Sands Hotel in Portmarnock from 1980 until 1988. With 24 hour music, its...
McCarthy’s of Fethard, Co. Tipperary

McCarthy’s of Fethard, Co. Tipperary

A dark and inviting interior, with tobacco-stained walls smothered by images of men clutching trophies, well-toned horses in mid flight, revolutionaries at play, the Bloody Sunday football team and Pope Leo XIV. McCarthy’s has a catchphrase: ‘We wine you, dine you and...
Sam Maguire & Liam MacCarthy – For Whom the Cups are Named

Sam Maguire & Liam MacCarthy – For Whom the Cups are Named

MacCarthy and Maguire are household names on account of the All-Ireland cups for hurling and football which are named in their honour. But few know just how intricately both men were linked with the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson...