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The link is through Andrew Jamieson Walker, born in Scotland in 1873, who spent much of his boyhood in Kilcadden House and its 300-acre estate near Stranorlar, County Donegal after his Irish father William Walker and Scottish mother Margaret Ferguson Cuthbertson moved back to Ireland with their large family in 1881. Andrew Jamieson Walker entered [ ]
As part of the wrap-up for our exhibition of Old Ireland in Colour images at Kylemore Abbey last weekend, I gave a presentation with 26 stories of innovators and innovations from along our westerly seaboard. For the date that s in it (I am a bit weird with numbers: I recently told attendees at the Scale [ ]
Last evening in Galway, I was meeting with my friend Kevin O’Hara, also known as the Donkeyman after his book “Last of the Donkey Pilgrims” which describes his travels around the coast of Ireland in 1979 with Missie the donkey. It was great to catch up with Kevin since we met in Park House Hotel [ ]
San chéad alt, scríobh mé faoi cad é an blockchain go díreach, agus cén fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach. Táimid ag déanamh taighde faoin blockchain sna hIonaid VistaMilk agus Insight anseo in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Chonaic muid gur féidir linn blockchain a úsáid chun gach rud a rianú, ó fheithiclí talmhaíochta go dtáirgí déiríochta (agus [ ]
Déanaim féin taighde leis na hIonaid VistaMilk agus Insight in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe: is ionaid taighde iad a bhunaigh Taighde Éireann Research Ireland le blianta anuas. Agus bímíd ag déanamh staidéir ar intleacht shaorga [AI] agus teicneolaíochtaí eile mar shampla, an blockchain, nó blocshlabhra as Gaeilge agus na méid atá na teicneolaíochtaí [ ]
So you want to get started with building your Irish family tree? Here are some initial tips from someone who has recently used (mostly) online tools to link back five or six generations… Software Firstly, I’d recommend getting a desktop application for storing your findings! There are various mobile apps that link into the big [ ]
Famed soldier in the United Irishmen Miles Byrne refers in his Memoirs to a tract of wetlands bought by a Mrs Doyle Lawless near Carcassonne. In fact, he alludes to a link between her and Napoleon, when he says: “We have no Bonaparte [there in Ireland] to encourage and protect us, as Mrs Lawless had [ ]
Part of the Irish Brigade, Dillon’s Regiment was brought from Ireland to France in 1690 by Count Arthur Dillon (1670-1733) during the Williamite War. However, the Dillons originally came from France: Henri de Léon of Brittany arrived in Ireland some 500 years earlier with the Normans and Prince John. Dillon gentry spread throughout Ireland, from [ ]
Did you know that over 260 years ago, Caserne Laperrine, the large military barracks beside Les Jacobins and originally built from 1709 to 1735, was once host to a battalion of Irish soldiers, part of Dillon’s Regiment from 1763 to 1764? Amongst them were many famous officers in the regiment, including some of the extended [ ]
Carcassonne has neolithic origins, but likely owes its original oppidum (town) name of Carsac (later Carcaso) to the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Irish journalist Seamus MacCall laments in a 1938 Irish Press article that “Carcassonne is still a Celtic city, and in Carcassonne is Tara, Cruachan, Cashel, and the rest, just as they might [ ]