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Frosses Hall was packed to capacity on Friday night for the official launch of a new history book that will add to the life, understanding, and knowledge of everyone living in the Donegal Bay area and beyond. Retired teacher Helen Meehan's More ...

30 Jul 2022 at 23:24

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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 totally ...

12 May 2022 at 18:00

Local News

Annals of Drumhome - A new and welcome local Donegal History publication

Annals of Drumhome is a new local Donegal history publication, researched and compiled by Drumhome Heritage Society. The book follows a chronological path, beginning away back in the 4th century and continues right up to the 21st century. ...

03 Dec 2021 at 14:48

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 Thursday next,...

19 Aug 2021 at 09:02

Local News

Ballyshannon man's fascinating radio documentary on the lost millionaire who disappeared from Donegal without a trace

A fascinating and intriguing new Donegal related history radio documentary will broadcast on RTE Radio 1 this evening, which is produced and narrated by Ballyshannon native and historian and author, Marc McMenamin. It's is a mystery ...

25 Jul 2021 at 14:06

Features

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 ...

05 May 2023 at 09:53

Features

A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat archives down the years

This week, we move from the British government looking for compensation for damage to a Crossley motor maliciously taken or destroyed in January 1922, as reported at a local council meeting in the Donegal Democrat, a free milk ...

07 Sept 2023 at 08:35

Features

A Matter of Record - The Donegal Democrat down the years

21 Jul 2023 at 11:22

Features

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

Features

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

Local News

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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Mystery surrounds old Bundoran book from 1896

Respected Ballyshannon historian Anthony Begley has come across snippets from a book from 1896, entitled, "Bundoran and its neighbourhood" by T.C. Connolly. A respected author himself and past President of ...

22 Jan 2023 at 10:15

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