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Troubled Times

  • A Galway Roadside Tragedy

    A Galway Roadside Tragedy

    The death of a boy named O'Malley near Garbally Cross in 1922.
  • Anglo-Irish War of Independence Documents

    Anglo-Irish War of Independence Documents

  • Father Michael Griffin, Gurteen

    Father Michael Griffin, Gurteen

    Local priest whose body was discovered in an unmarked grave near Barna.
  • Neddy Lohan

    Neddy Lohan

    A brief account of an incident near Cooloo in the earlier half of the 1800s (with some explanatory information on the Whiteboys)
  • POOR RATES IN THE WEST—SPLENDID COLLECTION!!

    POOR RATES IN THE WEST—SPLENDID COLLECTION!!

    A report from the Tuam Herald on May 3rd. 1843 on the collection of rates in Guilka and Skehana
  • Survival in a Nuclear War

    Survival in a Nuclear War

    The Book - 1965
  • The Cattle Drive at Mullaghmore - Easter Week 1916

    The Cattle Drive at Mullaghmore - Easter Week 1916

    Two people's recollections of this event.
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