Project Main Street, Castleisland: The Island Centre
Project Main Street is a collection of digital photographs of Main Street, Castleisland and its outskirts taken by Castleisland District Heritage on 6 July 2020 as part of an initiative to document the history of the buildings that line the famous ‘street between two fields.’[1] The project is a work in progress. In August […]
Rosario and Roche: A Credible Union
A curious, handwritten document in the O’Donohoe Collection states: Around 1668, King Afonso of Portugal wrote to Charles II of England with a recommendation for John Roche, formerly assistant to Rosario O’Daly, to be given a post in the Queen’s Bedchamber.1 Rosario O’Daly, otherwise Daniel O’Daly, whose life has recently […]
