On St. Stephen’s Night 1917, Mrs. Margaret Pearse, the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse, was the special guest of the recently formed Jim Connolly Sinn Féin Club in Letterkenny at a concert and ceilidh held in the Club Hall in Willie Boyle’s backyard (approximately where the Voodoo Night Club is today). The club had
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On Friday 22nd December 1848, 170 years ago this week, the murder of Dr. Samuel Davis took place when he was shot in the chest at point blank range on his own doorstep at Mount Southwell Place. Davis held a small amount of land in Glenswilly and a fortnight prior to that fateful night, he
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From Derry People 19th December 1903: “THE FESTIVE SEASON IN LETTERKENNY. Letterkenny, or as it was called in its old Irish form “Leiter Cannanan (the hill slope of the O’Cannanans) looks at its best during the week preceding Christmas, and the person must be very hard indeed to please who could not be supplied with
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As we have seen in previous posts, the lands on which a new town was to be built were first granted to Captain Patrick Crawford in 1611. After his death in 1615, his wife Johanna married Sir. George Marbury and it was he who received the Market Patent for the town in 1616. By 1619,
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