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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 23:33

West Donegal

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 18:33

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 later ...

05 May 2023 at 10:33

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 scheme ...

07 Sept 2023 at 09:33

Donegal Live

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 whose was said to be in a huury to ...

08 Apr 2024 at 15:33

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 McHugh's weekly ...

22 Feb 2024 at 15:33

Home

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 the Donegal ...

22 Jan 2023 at 20:33

Donegal Live

Mystery surrounds old Bundoran book from 1896

22 Jan 2023 at 10:33

What's On

Dolmen walk on 40th anniversary of Archaeological Survey of County Donegal

There are few people in Donegal who haven’t at some stage browsed the pages of the Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. This beautiful and informative book has graced the shelves of classrooms and ...

17 May 2023 at 13:33

Special William Allingham family Bible viewing for New Zealand relatives

Local News

William Allingham family Bible viewing for special New Zealand visitors

As is well known through the town's annual Allingham festival as well as the famous plinth erected in his honour on the old Bridge, famous poet William Allingham and his many family connections are ...

23 Nov 2023 at 15:33

Donegal Live

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 important ...

16 Nov 2023 at 14:33

Features

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

Donegal Democrat, Friday, October 26, 1923 - 100 years ago Bundoran Prisoners Every night during the week numbers of people joined in the public recital of the Rosary for the Republican ...

26 Oct 2023 at 12:33

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