"Is there anybody there?"
Georgiana Houghton (British painter) 1814 - 1884 The Eye of the Lord, 1874 watercolour and gouache on paper on board 25.3 x 35.6 cm (9.96 x 14.02 in.) Victorian Spiritualists [...]
99 year old letter from America
Not quite the standard of hotel that you associate with people from Tower village at the turn of the 1900's but thanks to a letter from ninety-nine years ago [...]
Model Village Tower
I was driving down the Kerry Road recently and was taken aback to see one of those huge, enormous cranes rising high and towering above all the houses in the [...]
School Teachers……Part 1
In March 1905 there was a census taken of all national school teachers on the island of Ireland, these details are available on the National Archives website here, this list [...]
The Ambrose Family of Gurth, Vicarstown and Coolflugh, Tower
My grandmother Kit Cogan was born Kathleen Ambrose on 30th May 1936 in Killeen, Vicarstown, the youngest child of Michael Ambrose, from Gurth, and Nora (née Kelleher), from Knocknagoun, Rylane. [...]
Lilian Bland, anything but………..
Lilian Bland was a woman who made an indelible mark on the world of aviation, ,she was the first woman in Ireland to fly a biplane and was the world’s [...]
Out, out , out – houses, buildings and sheds
One of the more interesting aspects of the 1901 and 1911 census returns is the additional information that it gives us about the physical environment that our ancestors lived in [...]
Disney & Bowen
Disney and Bowen, two iconic names in entertainment circles; staying in St Ann's Hill Hydro on the night of the 1901 census was Rev Brabazon Disney and his wife Sarah [...]
International Nurses' Day 2020
The twelfth of May is celebrated as International Nurses Day, the date was chosen in honor of Florence Nightingale, who was born on 12th May 1820. And to commemorate this [...]
Hydro Houses
I have complied a list of the houses listed in the Directories between 1875 and 1940 and the head of the household on those dates. It makes for some interesting [...]