It was one hundred years ago today, the 29th April 1916, that Padraig Pearse submitted his surrender to General Lowe and the orders were delivered to each of the garrisons to lay down their arms, thus bringing to an end the Easter Rising. However, amidst all the coverage that that seismic event is receiving this
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The first record of a football match in Letterkenny took place on 30th January 1882 when the owners of Hegarty’s Hotel granted “Letterkenny Athletic Club” the use of their field at the Isles for a 9-a side match, played between the “Friendly Club” and the “Town Club”. By the early 1890s, the first official competitive...
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Since his arrival in the town of Letterkenny from Dungannon in 1848, Presbyterian minister Rev. John Kinnear had supported Tenant Rights on public platforms throughout the town and district. This was a time of great poverty and hardship throughout the county when the rights of tenants were being trampled on by unscrupulous landlords. On the
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In January 1922, Michael Collins and his troops took over the running of the administrative machinery of Ireland in Dublin Castle. Over the weeks and months that followed, phased disbandments of the Royal Irish Constabulary took place so that by 2nd April 1922 the force formally ceased to exist (although the actual process was not
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