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Premier performance of a very special composition to take place in Donegal

The premiere performance of Small Behaviours - Songs From a Witness Statement takes place in the Abbey Arts Centre as part of the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival. Written by Kate O’Callaghan, arranged by Seamus Devenney and performed by Kate ...

04 Oct 2022 at 18:42

South Donegal

Battle of Pettigo statue repaired in time for Easter Commemoration

South Donegal County Councillor Michael McMahon says that he is delighted that the memorial statue to those that died in the Battle of Pettigo, back in 1922, will be ready for the annual commemoration service there on Easter Monday. The battle ...

15 Apr 2022 at 14:33

Glenties MD

Ceremony to take place to mark 100-year anniversary of Rosses Martyrs

The unveiling of memorial plaques in memory of the Rosses Martyrs will take place on Sunday, March 13 at Mullaghduff hall at 2.30pm. The main speaker at the event will be Teachta Pearse Doherty and the event will be chaired by the ...

02 Mar 2022 at 15:47

Local News

McHugh's Miscellany: After Battle of Pettigo/Belleek British held part of Donegal

These were tense days in the not so merry month of May, back in Donegal 100 years ago. Tír Chonaill was tentatively wedged between the War of Independence and the Irish Civil war. This, after a General election had been called on ...

26 May 2022 at 15:40

National News

Fatal shoot-out on Irish border remembered 100 years on

A “forgotten” flashpoint at the Irish border in the wake of the War of Independence that left several people dead is set to be remembered 100 years on. By February 11 1922, the British had handed over power to the Irish Free ...

10 Feb 2022 at 13:10

Local News

Donegal County Museum needs your help with a major exhibition

Donegal and its people have been affected by the fallout and consequences of the War of Independence, the Civil War, Partition, the work of the Boundary Commission, and of course, the Border for over 100 years now. These ...

10 Jan 2023 at 16:53

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 ...

19 Aug 2021 at 09:02

National News

National: Discovery of 100-year-old hand grenade sparks alert

THE DISCOVERY of a hand grenade - possibly dating back to the War of Independence - sparked a major alert this Friday morning. The device was found shortly after 9am at Solohead in County Tipperary. The Army Bomb ...

22 Sept 2023 at 14:53

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A celebration of Donegal’s unsung heroines on our newest bank holiday

To celebrate the new bank holiday to honour Naomh Bríd/St Brigid, Donegal County Museum is hosting a special event celebrating some of Donegal’s unsung heroines. ‘Untold’ - Women in the Revolutionary Period ...

23 Jan 2023 at 18:20

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McHugh's Miscellany - Donegal TDs whose IRA pension applications are now online

New material from the Military Service Pensions Collection (MSPC) has shed life on the military activities of 28 Donegal individuals during the War of Independence and Civil War, including Fianna Fáil TD ...

01 Jun 2023 at 17:35

Local News

Donegal Annual is on the shelves

To mark the 1,500th anniversary of the birth of Colmcille, County Donegal Historical Society has published a special edition of Donegal Annual (2021, no. 73), which is now available. It is a celebration ...

06 May 2021 at 21:30

Donegal MD

Kilraine War of Independence ambush re-enactment attracts huge interest

12 Sept 2016 at 12:54

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