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A matter of record - Donegal Democrat down the years

The Donegal Democrat has been reporting from the highways and byways of the county since its first publication back in June 1919. It is part of our rich historic legacy which began just before the foundation of the Free State and later the Republic ...

05 May 2023 at 09:53

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A matter of record - Donegal Democrat down the Years

12 May 2023 at 14:08

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A matter of Record - Unique insight into the history archives of the Donegal Democrat

This week’s offering from the archives of the Donegal Democrat newspaper show the Military helping out with the Rate collecting, after the foundation of the State, Irish dancing in Mountcharles, the storage of petrol, record pilgrim ...

29 Aug 2023 at 16:09

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

21 Jul 2023 at 11:22

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A matter of record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

From the early days of the Free State when Donegal including its GAA team was referred to as Tirconail (not even the double ‘L’) at the big match in Letterkenny, a postcard issued with an alleged threat to kill a farmer, how to ...

24 Jun 2023 at 14:37

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A Matter of Record - the Donegal Democrat down the years

The many uses of the flour bag, winning oarsmen having their prizes confiscated at the border by Customs officials, the hardy Belleek donkey who brushed off a collision by a car going at 30 m.p.h. and the fight to keep ...

24 Aug 2023 at 11:58

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A matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

As the Civil war abated, 100 years ago, most regional Irish newspapers were towing the Provisional Government line having been under military censorship for the duration of the civil war. In the months thereafter and ...

17 Aug 2023 at 13:33

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A matter of Record - Donegal Democrat down the years

This week’s look back at the Democrat archives with Michael McHugh looks at proposals for utilising the Erne for power purposes, decades before it actually came to fruition, the closure of the Londonderry and Lough ...

19 Aug 2023 at 14:20

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Joyous scenes as 1,700 turned up to opening of Bundoran's Astoria Ballroom 70 years ago

70 years ago, February 26, 1954 heralded a momentous day for many in the north west as a record crowd descended upon the opening night of the famed Astoria Ballroom in Bundoran, recalled this week in Michael ...

22 Feb 2024 at 14:46

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Poverty was very much in evidence in early 'Free State' in Donegal

Poverty was very much in evidence in early 'Free State' in Donegal as is evidenced from the pages of the Donegal Democrat, a century ago. Ten years later there were taxes being imposed on sand being taken ...

25 Jan 2024 at 10:08

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'Terror storm' in Donegal caused widespread havoc 50 years ago

If we thought that the recent days and the snow and ice have been difficult to deal with, what about a storm in Donegal fifty years ago that caused chaos and as reported in the Donegal Democrat edition ...

18 Jan 2024 at 14:53

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A Matter of Record: A look at the Donegal Democrat History archive down the years

This week takes us from a 1923 to 1963 including a lucky local man falling between a boat and the pier in Donegal Town, then driving straight home with his lorry full of goods, political prisoners ...

23 Nov 2023 at 16:54

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