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Trip Through Time: 'Changing' Times in Dundalk

Readers, will no doubt, have noticed that there is not much money, in the form of notes or coins, changing hands these days and that most transactions in shops and service stations are in the form of credit cards, of one sort or another, being ...

12 Jun 2022 at 11:33

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Dundalk Famine Graveyard to hold annual service of remembrance

Dundalk Famine Graveyard annual service of remembrance will take place at Killally Famine Graveyard on the 7th August at 5pm. Dundalk Famine Graveyard is one of the most important historical sites in Dundalk and in Co Louth since it was ...

30 Jun 2022 at 15:33

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Trip Through Time: When did wall paintings first appear in Dundalk?

Wall paintings have become all the rage in Dundalk since the Covid pandemic started over two years ago and are now an acceptable part of the local culture - but that was not always the the case! It seems not all that long ago that the ...

23 Jul 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: The changing Dundalk scene

When writing about the Butter Market I could not help recalling that there were many other things that have changed around Dundalk since the beginning of the present century and, more especially, since the onset of the Covid 19 ...

14 May 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: Who were the Dundalk 'Woodpeckers'?

Answers to last week's quesions: What day of the week was 'Market Day' in old Dundalk? For centuries Monday was the most important trading day in the town of Dundalk. The custom goes back to 1226 when a royal patent was ...

15 May 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: Where in Dundalk are the 'Rawson Houses'?

Answers to last week's questions: Where was Dundalk's Linen Hall? Dundalk's old two storey Linen Hall stood at the north end of Church Street, facing towards Clanbrassil Street, about where the green at the side of St. ...

03 Jul 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: The Pubs of Dundalk

In relation to a a question I asked recently regarding the restrictions placed on a certain public house in Dundalk about 200 years ago arising from the alleged meetings of a secret society on the premises, I have ...

06 May 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: Where in Dundalk was the Sheila factory?

Answers to last week's questions: Who was Setana? Setana was the birth name of the legendary hero Cuchullain. He was the son of Dectine, sister of Conor (or Conchobor as he is sometimes known), the famous head of ...

05 Jun 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: Where was the Dundalk Charter School?

Answers to last week's questions: Where was Dundalks's 'Gallows Hill'? This is an old Dundalk name that is not much used today but in the middle of the last century most Dundalk people regarded it as being the ...

24 Jul 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: Where did the E.S.B. open their first showroom in Dundalk?

Answers to last week's questions: Which Dundalk commercial anniversary occurs on June 1? On Saturday June 1, 1912, the electrical power supplied by the Dundalk Urban District Council's Power Station was ...

22 May 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: The time Radio Caroline docked in Cooley

The furtive pleasures of listening to something that might be illegal, however, came to the fore again when the pirate radios started broadcasting in the early 1960s and, I believe, this part of the ...

21 May 2022 at 22:33

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Trip Through Time: 'The Talk of the Butter Market' in old Dundalk?

Sitting at an outdoor table at one of the cafes in the Centre of Dundalk that have become popular in recent times, I became aware that there was something unusual about the atmosphere of the place. ...

13 May 2022 at 22:33

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