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Inishowen MD

Clonmany Festival donates €10,000 to Doagh Famine Village

The Clonmany Festival has donated €10,000 to the Doagh Famine Village. The popular tourist attraction was a devastating fire that destroyed the museum's main building last Saturday week and there has been a huge fundraising drive to assist in its ...

12 May 2025 at 22:17

Donegal Life

Major new famine documentary narrated by Liam Neeson to screen on RTÉ

To mark the 175th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Irish Famine a major two-part documentary based on University College Cork’s Atlas of the Great Irish Famine will be broadcast this evening (Monday, November 30) and Monday, December 7 ...

30 Nov 2020 at 08:01

What's On

Author and historian John Joe McGinley to speak at famine commemoration

Author and historian John Joe McGinley will be speaking at the Dunfanaghy Commemoration day on Friday, May 19, at 6pm at the Workhouse. Mr McGinley will be delving into some of his stories from his latest book Famine, Murder and Eviction. He ...

15 May 2023 at 14:15

Donegal MD

Samhain Harvest event set for Falcarragh

The AFRI Chocktaw Irish Famine Landscape Project is hosting a one-day seminar, "Samhain Harvest: Food, Famine and Growing Within", in Falcarragh next week. "After several Famine commemoration walks in Dublin, Derry, the Donegal Gaeltacht ...

21 Oct 2016 at 14:41

Letterkenny/Milford MD

Milford exhibition tells story of Polish count who fed starving famine children

The story of a world-renowned Polish explorer and scientist who fed starving children in schools during the famine is told in a new exhibition at Milford library. Count Paul (Paweł) Strzelecki volunteered to work in Ireland to help ...

14 May 2023 at 09:31

Letterkenny/Milford MD

Defence Forces get on their bikes in Donegal for National Famine Commemoration

As preparations intensify for Sunday’s National Famine Commemoration in Milford, a fleet of Irish Defence Forces motorbikes zoomed into Donegal on Friday. Twenty five of the Defence Forces’ Honda NC750X bikes arrived at the ...

20 May 2023 at 10:51

Inishowen MD

A helping hand as an official fundraiser set up for Doagh Famine Village after fire

An official fundraiser has been set up online after an extensive part of Doagh Famine Village was destroyed by fire on Saturday. The fire ripped through the Ballyliffin site from 3:30pm till nightfall, with firefighters ...

05 May 2025 at 16:18

Home

President Higgins recounts adversity endured in Donegal during An Gorta Mór

President Higgins was in Milford on Sunday for a laying of a wreath in honour of those who died and emigrated during An Gorta Mór. The President said: “The location of this year’s National Famine Commemoration here in ...

21 May 2023 at 15:30

Home

Top marks for Scoil Chroí Naofa sixth class girls and their fundraising efforts

Sixth class pupils at Scoil Chroí Naofa in Carndonagh have shown that small acts of kindness can make a big difference. Over the past few months, these young students have taken on a series of projects that reflect ...

17 Jun 2025 at 17:05

Local News

Donegal treasure map showing gems

With the tourist season traditionally opening on St Patrick's Day, a group of business people in Inishowen have got together to produce a special map of the peninsula. Speaking to Inish Live, Ann McGonigle of ...

09 Apr 2022 at 13:45

Arts & Entertainment

New famine musical to help explore and heal ‘deep ancestral wound’

A brand new musical which will come to venues in Donegal in the coming months tells the story of the Irish famine through the lives of those most deeply affected. This brave production takes what its ...

06 Apr 2023 at 15:20

National News

Ireland has a moral duty to those seeking asylum – Higgins

Ireland has a moral duty to honour its commitments to those who seek asylum and refuge, President Michael D Higgins has said. The president was addressing the National Famine Commemoration which ...

21 May 2023 at 15:48

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