Poems, Pardons and Plays: Castleisland District Heritage Looks Back at 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, Castleisland District Heritage looks back at what the year has given and, sadly, taken away. The year got off
As 2024 draws to a close, Castleisland District Heritage looks back at what the year has given and, sadly, taken away. The year got off
‘Buy in bulk with ready cash; sell at low profits but sell quickly’ Denis Guiney, a ‘Merchant Prince’ in the twentieth century business world, was
John Twiss of Castleisland, wrongfully convicted of the murder of James Donovan in 1894 and hanged in Cork Gaol the following year, was Posthumously Pardoned
Two hundred years ago, in 1824, The Castleisland Act was passed.[1] A map which dates to 1822 inscribed, ‘Plan of the Town and Undivided Lands
Congratulations are extended to The Kerryman newspaper which this year (2024) celebrates 120 years since its first issue was printed in Tralee on 20 August
‘Donal O’Mahony stands unrivalled and unequalled in the fight for Irish freedom’ – T M Donovan In 1927, Castleisland historian, T M Donovan, described patriot
‘John Sullivan was the Dickens of our generation’ – Mark Freeland, BBC Head of Comedy John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE, creator of the comedy sitcom
‘Just a master bricklayer’ – Hans Liebherr’s description of himself[1] Hans Liebherr was born on 1st April 1915 in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, one of three children
In June this year (2024), Castleisland District Heritage was contacted by Beth O’Leary Anish from Massachusetts, scholar of Irish American literature, who was travelling to
‘Was it not the fact that the evicted tenant and the caretaker were on extremely bad terms, the tenant having on one occasion struck the
