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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 ...

12 May 2023 at 14:08

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A Matter of Record - An Historical look back at the pages of the Donegal Democrat

A new year and another journey into the eclectic and entertaining archives of the Donegal Democrat with Michael McHugh. And in the days when Communism and Fascism were quickly becoming two of the great sins of the early 20th century - with many ...

03 Jan 2024 at 11:19

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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 from local beaches for farmers and ...

25 Jan 2024 at 10:08

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Donegal Democrat down the years - A matter of Record

Something that would most certainly be loathed upon today and is also illegal, the Democrat of the day did at least manage to put the “sports” reference in quotation marks. The piece was included by a local notes correspondent, under the ...

15 Jun 2023 at 11:23

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A matter of record - Donegal Democrat down the years

05 May 2023 at 09:53

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Link with Napper Tandy severed with 1954 death of 'Grand old Man of the Rosses'

Another eclectic dip into the archives of the Democrat ranging from “the ban” a century ago to a bit of smuggling, the last living link to Napper Tandy and Donegal speakers being found to have the best brogue in the land. 1954 - 70 ...

28 Mar 2024 at 15:45

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

This week’s 'A Matter of Record' offering from Michael McHugh begins with the reality of why the Railways died out in Donegal, because of the stranglehold that the North of Ireland rail connections had over this county and the ...

03 Jul 2023 at 14:52

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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

This week, we bring to you a follow up to last week’s instalment after an avid reader of the column ‘A Matter of Record’ in the USA got in contact with the author and provided what he thinks might be the only photo ...

20 Oct 2023 at 14:51

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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 ...

24 Aug 2023 at 11:58

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A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

Whether that was the rejection of school extensions at the time, confrontation with the Navy off the Donegal coast, denim-clad hooligans descending upon Bundoran or Donegal GAA raising training funds for their ...

15 Jul 2023 at 15:49

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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 ...

17 Aug 2023 at 13:33

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