I wish that I were back again in the glens of Donegal, They’d call me a coward if I return but a hero if I fall! These are the words of Donegal poet and writer, Patrick McGill when he was serving with the London Irish Rifles during World War 1. McGill was born in Glenties
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Having looked at the importance of Ballyraine Port in our last post, another key factor in the economic growth of Letterkenny in the early twentieth century was the construction of a railway system that connected the town to Derry in the east and later Burtonport to the west and also to the towns in the
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One of the major factors of economic growth in Letterkenny in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undoubtedly the role of the Port at Ballyraine. Set up in the late eighteenth century to facilitate the arrival of goods into the nearby small market town, on January 10th1775, I. Monck Mason reported on its poor
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Following the Local Government (Ireland) Act of 1898, which set up the framework for the first Urban District Councils, Letterkenny received its first Urban Councillors in the elections of 1899. From then, and up until its dissolution in 2014, 96 different councilors served on either the Urban or Town Council. However, female representation in...
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