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Of local bricks and mortar!
02 February 2012
OUR PUBLIC buildings are very often a sign of identity.
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Fighting Blindness
26 January 2012
A move is being made to form a Co. Wexford branch of the Fighting Blindness organisation, its work including fundraising for research purposes. For this purpose, a churchgate collection takes place at Masses in both parishes in Enniscorthy this weekend January 28-29, and all support very welcome. If you can help man the collection, contact tel. 087-9256769.
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Fifty years of television
26 January 2012
I STILL think that radio is the premium form of electronic media – it invites the listener to hear the story and paint a picture in the mind – but television makes it so easy, the picture, the sound and a talking-head to explain exactly what you are watching.
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A pioneer of local history
19 January 2012
THOSE OF us with a passion for history are grateful to the historians, both local and academic, that went before us.
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Internment hut to community hall!
12 January 2012
FOR YEARS now, Tombrack Hall has served the surrounding community as a social point for various events and occasions from the annual Tombrack School Christmas Concert to the polling station for the recent election, and for many it draws back memories of dances and balls.
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Bunclody or Newtownbarry?
05 January 2012
A SMALL parcel of people shows their vintage by referring to Bunclody as Newtownbarry. Bunclody was recognised as the official name from January 1st 1952 – sixty years ago this week.
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A literary institution
29 December 2011
IT IS a literary institution at this stage and like any vintage product it gets better with age – amazingly it is time to celebrate 40 years of the Kilmore Parish Journal – a brilliant idea that originated amongst the officers of Mulrankin/Tomhaggard Muintir na Tíre in 1972 and enthusiastically nurtured through the years and decades that followed.
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The seven ages of New Ross
22 December 2011
NEW ROSS has had more bridges across the River Barrow than most towns and cities in the world – seven to date – and one of them was ‘a gift’ from one of the most infamous personages in Irish history – Oliver Cromwell!
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A century of change
15 December 2011
JOHN POWER has researched the history of maritime Wexford and last week we read some of the principal events between 1859 and 1910, now we take up the story from 1911 to 1960, an interesting period punctuated by the war of independence, the civil war, two world wars and industrial unrest.
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Splitting the waves
08 December 2011
WEXFORD HAS 150 miles of coastline and is washed by the waters of the Irish Sea, St. George’s Channel and the Atlantic Ocean, yet during the sail and steamship era the safety of shipping was the preserve of two lighthouses – Tuskar Rock and Hook Head – and five lightships, the Coningbeg, Barrels, Lucifer, Blackwater and the South Arklow.
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