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BUY A BOOK FOR JACK & JILL - BOOK LAUNCH -FRIDAY 25 MAY RIVERBANK [May 19, 2012]
Friday 25 May 2012 will see the launch of a book in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation,at 6.30 p.m. in Riverbank Arts Centre. It is a republication by Kildare Libraryand Arts Services of Thomas Bodkin's, 'My Uncle Frank'. All proceeds will go tothe Jack & Jill Foundation so you simply buy the book as a way of supporting one of the best known and best loved charities in the country.
Author: mariocorrigan :: May 19, 2012
TURN OUT FOR SOME REAL HISTORY ON CO. KILDARE ROADS SUNDAY 27th MAY [May 19, 2012]
On Saturday and Sunday May 26th & 27th the ninth running of the Royal Irish Automobile Club’s Pioneer Run will take place based at Barberstown Castle Hotel and travelling through parts of Counties Kildare and Meath.
Now firmly established as Ireland’s premier event for early cars and motorcycles, the RIAC Pioneer Run caters for cars over one hundred years old and celebrates the heritage of Ireland’s pioneering automobilists, for whom every journey was an unpredictable adventure.
Author: mariocorrigan :: May 19, 2012
NOEL'S JET DESIGN A WINNER [May 17, 2012]
An article from the Leinster Leader of 22 February 1975 on Noel Dowling's winning jet design
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 17, 2012
THE CHAMP FROM NEWBRIDGE [May 17, 2012]
An article from the Leinster Leader of 30 November 1974 congratulating Pat Eddery on winning the English flat jockeys championship
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 17, 2012
ATHY SEVENTY YEARS AGO [IN 1956] [May 17, 2012]
A letter published in the Leinster Leader on 1 September 1956 describing Athy seventy years ago
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 17, 2012
FOUGHT IN FIRST WORLD WAR [May 17, 2012]
The Leinster Leader of 23 April 1977 reports on the death of a WWI veteran from Athy
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 17, 2012
GREAT INTEREST IN KILDARE CONNECTIONS WITH THE TITANIC [May 11, 2012]
To date some 1600 people, adults and students, have heard of Kildare connections with the Titanic Disaster courtesy of Kildare Library & Arts Services, local historian, James Durney, Athy Heritage Centre and local history groups in Kill, The Curragh, Leixlip, Athy, Rathangan, Naas, Timahoe and Kildare Town.
...moreAuthor: mariocorrigan :: May 11, 2012
CLANE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP [May 11, 2012]
Clane Local History Group next talk - 'St. Michael and All Angels Church' by Carita O'Leary on Wednesday 16 May
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 11, 2012
NEWBRIDGE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP [May 11, 2012]
Newbridge Local History Group next meeting 16 May - ‘From Military Barracks to Bord na Mona 1812-2012’
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 11, 2012
GABRIEL HAYES, SCULPTOR AND ARTIST [May 11, 2012]
When Irish currency went decimal in 1971 a little-known fact was that several of the coins were designed by the Kildare sculptor and artist, Gabriel Hayes
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 11, 2012
JOHN HAWKINS. NO ORDINARY LIFE [May 4, 2012]
James Durney has written a tribute to Australian Army veteran John Hawkins who died on 30 April 2012
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
AN UPDATE TO BARTHOLOMEW MILLERICK, A YOUNG KILDARE SOLDIER [May 4, 2012]
Kildare Library and Arts Service received a recent email from the daughter of Bartholomew Millerick, Ruth McAleese. Our thanks to Ruth
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
UNUSUAL NEW CHURCH BLESSED IN NEWTOWN [May 4, 2012]
An article from the Leinster Leader of 12 December 1975 on the blessing of Kilcock parish’s new Church of the Nativity at Newtown
Author: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
NEW NAAS STOCK MART OPENED [May 4, 2012]
An article from the Leinster Leader of 8 April 1978 on the opening of the new Naas Livestock Mart at Caragh Road, Naas
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
THE FLU EPIDEMICS NOW (1957) AND IN 1918 [May 4, 2012]
An article from the Leinster Leader of 21 September 1957 on comparisons to the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 and another outbreak in 1957
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
TERROR IN IRELAND. TERROR IN KILDARE [May 4, 2012]
County Kildare native, Michael Murphy, is a contributor to Terror in Ireland 1916-1923, a collection of essays edited by David Fitzpatrick, Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin.
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: May 04, 2012
GPO STAFF IN 1916 [Apr 26, 2012]
Kildare connections in Stephen Ferguson's book 'GPO Staff in 1916' launched on 24 April 2012
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: April 26, 2012
GREAT TURF ROAD IN KILDARE [Apr 26, 2012]
The building of the "Great turf road in Kildare" between the Convent, Rathangan, and Skiaow Bridge, Allen
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: April 26, 2012
LINK WITH TOBRUK [Apr 26, 2012]
A notice from the Leinster Leader of 10 January 1942 on the death of Mrs. Mary Timpson, Athy
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: April 26, 2012
WELL-KNOWN FARM SOLD [Apr 26, 2012]
One of the best farms in Leinster, the well-known Kildangan estate at Ballinabrackey, was sold in December 1942
...moreAuthor: jdurney :: April 26, 2012
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