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Donegal history lovers encouraged to tune in online to Dublin Festival of History

Donegal history lovers are encouraged to tune in online to Dublin Festival of History, as the festival goes online for the first time in 2020. The festival, an initiative of Dublin City Council, will take place from this Friday, September 11 to ...

08 Sept 2020 at 17:00

Local News

Donegal Railway Heritage centre meeting the challenge of Covid-19

The Donegal Railway Heritage Centre located at the old train station in Donegal Town may be closed to the public at present, but that does not mean they are taking any kind of a break. And they suggest that it might be a good time to catch up ...

19 Mar 2020 at 11:21

Local News

Donegal Museum Curator wants your story of the Donegal experience during Covid-19 pandemic

While we realise it or not, we are all part of a Donegal social history that will be studied at length in the future and you are now being asked to become part of that story by recording your experiences through the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

07 May 2020 at 12:09

Glenties MD

Funding to conserve historic Killybegs port related records saved from 1922 fire

Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Irish history will probably know that many of the country's most important documents were destroyed in a fire at the Four Courts in the early stages of the Irish Civil War in 1922. But all was ...

12 May 2022 at 18:00

Local News

Online talk by Historian in Residence with Donegal County Council

An online talk by Dr Ben Rogers, from University College Dublin, who is the Historian in Residence with Donegal County Council on Donegal’s Rural District Councils during and after the War of Independence will take place on ...

19 Aug 2021 at 09:02

Local News

One of Donegal's most popular annual publications is now available

You might think that an Annual devoted to Donegal's history that has been printed without fail by the Donegal Historical Society since 1947 would by this time have covered everything, that the historical well would now be ...

11 Sept 2020 at 11:00

South Donegal

Pivotal Ballyshannon thoroughfare stuck between ‘Rock’ and a hard place

The plummeting standard of a pedestrian thoroughfare which had been known for generations of Ballyshannon people as well as legions of county GAA football fans, came in for some sharp criticism at the July monthly ...

17 Jul 2022 at 15:04

Local News

Cross Border funding for Donegal and Derry Railway heritage projects

The Donegal Railway Museum has been awarded a grant from the Shared Island Civic Society Fund towards two cross-border railway heritage conferences, one in Donegal Town and the other in Derry, as well as the ...

07 May 2024 at 14:24

South Donegal

Rossnowlagh's Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School draws closer

The 2024 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School is drawing closer and takes place on the weekend of the 10-12 May. This year’s theme is Words, Language and lore / Focail, Teanga agus Seanchas. The early decades ...

15 Apr 2024 at 12:08

Features

A Matter of Record - Donegal Democrat Archival History and News from the Vaults

This week we read about Grand old man of the Roads, Bob Davitt who died in 1953, but who was one of the few people who had doubtful distinction of reading of his own death in the local paper and then ...

12 Oct 2023 at 16:23

Local News

Dramatic Donegal Sea Chase for Poteen a century ago - A Matter of Record

Another perusal into the Donegal Democrat archives recalls a dramatic sea chase between the Civic Guard and an obstinate poteen maker and his curragh cache and later a speeding C.I.E. bus driver ...

08 Apr 2024 at 15:19

Features

A Matter of Record - the Donegal Democrat newspaper archive down the years

Memories of agents who collected for the landed estates, the nuisance of Killybegs of hawkers, the partial failure of potato crop in WW2, a Judge’s warning that bike reflectors were more ...

16 Nov 2023 at 14:23

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