The Moycullen Cooperative
by Hilary Kiely The first time I came to Ireland, we drove through Moycullen village in County Galway on the way up from Shannon Airport …
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Women of the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement
by Hilary Kiely In the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916, Ireland had been riding a growing wave of cultural nationalism, demonstrated by …
Brigid’s Day/Imbolc
by Hilary Kiely The first of February marks the beginning of Spring. It is known as Imbolc and is what’s called a cross-quarter day, falling …
The places marking the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne
by Hilary Kiely Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne: Landscape, Literature, and Cultural Heritage The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne) is an epic …
Booleying in Buaile Beag
by Hilary Kiely In Ireland there can be millennia and layers of meaning packed into a place name. The name can tell you about the …
The Shape of Killannin Parish
by Hilary Kiely Sir William Wilde, in his 1867 travelogue, Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands describes the parish of Killanin in this way: The …
Patrick (Pádraig) Pearse in Rossmuck, Connemara
A glimpse into 1916 Leader Padraig Pearse’s relationship with the Connemara Gaeltacht by Hilary Kiely Residing in the collection of Padraig Pearse’s papers in the …
An Tobar Cuana/ St. Cuana’s Well, Collinamuck
by Hilary Kiely According to William Wilde’s Lough Corrib – It’s Shores and Islands, St. Cuana, or Coona, was born at the end of the sixth …
The Battle of Cross
by Hilary Kiely Near Binghamstown on the Erris Peninsula of County Mayo (a town known locally in this Gaeltacht area as An Geata Mhór, or …