Knock, Murderer, Knock!
Knock, Murderer, Knock! is a Golden Age murder mystery novel written in 1938 by Olive Shimwell using the pseudo name Harriet Rutland. Shinwell, born in 1901, only daughter of [...]
Knock, Murderer, Knock! is a Golden Age murder mystery novel written in 1938 by Olive Shimwell using the pseudo name Harriet Rutland. Shinwell, born in 1901, only daughter of [...]
Matehy, Magh Teicheadh, cemetery is located opposite St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the small village of Matehy; the perimeter of the cemetery is defined by a large stone [...]
Another divorce scandal made the papers in Ireland during 1905, four years before Shenstone Bishop divorced his wife. And again, St. Ann's Hill Hydro played a central role [...]
On the road from Blarney to Donoughmore, in the Parish of Cloghroe, Co. Cork, there is a place called "Burnt Mills". It is so called because about a hundred [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]