SEOSAMH Ó Suilleabháin is a farmer from South Connemara who ‘has the land in his name’ but he firmly believes that he doesn’t own it. A...
1915 Street hurlers At the City Petty Sessions, before Mr. Joseph Kilbride, R.M., and Sir James O’Donohoe, three young men named Griffin, King and O’Connor were...
1915 A serious problem Although taking the country as a whole, there has been a decrease in the deaths from all forms of tuberculosis disease, the...
1915 Mad with drink A remarkable story of a son’s return from a fair “mad with drink”, of his assault upon his aged father, of his...
1915 Violent lunatic A lunatic named Meehan was committed to Ballinasloe Asylum on Thursday week by order of Messrs. S.J. McDonogh and C. Kelly, J.P.s, Dunmore....
Galway Cathedral was officially opened and blessed 50 years ago this month. But the story behind the iconic building goes much further back, to the 1870’s...
1915 Bucket attack At Ballinasloe Petty Sessions, Mary Carey summoned Michael Connolly for alleged assault with a bucket. Witness said she worked for Mr. Charles Greaney,...
1915 Clifden murder Clifden has been the scene of a terrible tragedy, as a result of which Owen Coyne, a Cleggan farmer, aged 60, met his...
