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Hi Sadhbh,

That's amazing - many thanks for that. It looks like there was quite a turn-out and so many other people will find themselves or relatives in this photograph.

All the best for Christmas and the New Year. Kind regards, Justin.

Hi, I was wondering if any members of the Forum could please look up and copy an article from the 3 Oct 1974 edition of the Clare Champion for me. The article includes a photo of people watching Bishop Harty blessing the RHO House at Kilkishen. The people watching include my late grandmother, Mary C...

Hi LinHog,

Yes, I'd be happy to e-mail you a copy if you leave an e-mail address I can send it to.

Kind regards, JC

This is a photo of the children attending Kilkishen National School, taken in about 1945. They include my father, Patrick Cahill (third row from the front, first left) and his younger brother, John (front row, seventh from the left). The gentleman standing ominously just behind my father is Mr Pat O...

During WWI, a number of Irish servicemen recuperated from their wounds at Glamis Castle, the family home of the late Queen Mother (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, as she then was). Elizabeth's father, Claude Bowes-Lyon (the Earl of Strathmore) and her mother, Nina (Lady Strathmore) had five sons and one other...

This is the first in a series of historic photographs of Clare people I'm posting to ensure their wider distribution and long-term preservation. I'm starting with group photographs as Forum participants may be able to identify the people shown or forward them on to others who may be related or other...

At the risk of noting something that's probably common knowledge to local historians, I hope no-one will mind if I draw attention to the extraordinary records relating to Co Clare myth, legend, oral history and genealogy collected by the Irish Folklore Commission, now held by University College Dubl...

Hi, I may have to fly over some turbulence for this request, but ... There is a family tradition that someone once wrote an unflattering 'poem' about Kilkishen in Co Clare. There are several variations and I was wondering if anyone knew more about it. The version I have heard goes something like thi...

Hi, I'm looking for descendants of Kate Lawlor and Patrick Cahill. Kate Lawlor's family was from North Rineanna in Co. Clare. Her parents were Michael Lawlor, a farm worker, and Mary Power, a housekeeper. Kate was born in c.1895 and had 5 siblings: James, Mary, Bridget, Patrick and Anne. Patrick Cah...