Having become acquainted with Anne Tierney during her research into the crash of the Halifax plane between Tuam and Lavelly I have come to appreciate the wonderful research that she has done into the event. As a result she has been called upon by other groups working on World War 2 plane crashes. She always […]

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation, who never yet made a point.           The eccentric (and self-anointed) Lord Timothy Dexter didn’t see any point: in 1802 he wrote a book called,  ‘A Pickle for the Knowing Ones’, which was completely devoid of punctuation (it was also lacking in capitalization, correct spelling, rules of […]

Sergeant George Smith. Ex- Royal Air Force.                                                      Ground Engineer.                       Maison La Corderie Residential Home, St. Helier, Jersey Island.                                                              When invited by Matron Liz Booth to compile this obituary on my good friend George Smith, I felt both humbled and honoured. Liz assured me that I was quite competent to carry out the […]

Sunderland NJ175 of Canadian Squadron 422, Coastal Command based at Castle Archdale, Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland too off from Lough Erne at 11 am on Saturday morning of 12th August 1944 to go on convoy patrol over the Atlantic Ocean.   The crew were F/L Evan Campbell Devine, Pilot. – F/O Martin Alexander […]

The young 16 year old girl had got a job with the village shopkeeper filling brown paper bags with tea, stocking the shelves and helping the wife in the kitchen. One day the shopkeeper’s son asked her to give him a hand in the store. Soon he had her up against the meal bags and […]

Canadians from a far off land Extended to us a helping hand Catalina’s set forth in the dead of night Valiant men off to the fight.   For freedom and the defence of you and I True heroes of land sea and sky Sunderland’s too – along the Donegal Corridor fly Mighty thunder of the […]

The village of Belleek has become over the years a place of worldwide renown, principally due to the famous Parian China. It has the distinction of meriting the word Belleek in the Webster Dictionary. In compiling the script to be used in a walking tour of the village and its surroundings care needs to be […]

Destroyed in the name of Progress.   Local residents were stunned to put it mildly, to see, as dawn was breaking on Monday morning 9th November a mechanical digger starting to demolish Greyson’s limekiln, which was situated near the Kesh road on the outskirts of the village in the town land of Rathmore. One hoist […]

Fr. Coyle was a native of Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan, born about 1875; he served as Curate in Pettigo, the parish of Carn from 1901 to 1906. Later while serving in Brookborough he came to prominence when in the town land of Cooneen where a local family were terrorised by a supernatural presence in […]

A Fermanagh born comedian once boasted that his home county was the only county in Ireland that rhymed with banana. This admittedly impressive plaudit aside, the area is best known for its waterways; through the high ground surrounding the rugged borderland near villages like Rosslea and Belcoo is every bit as impressive as the Erne. […]