SEÁN BOYLAN The legendary Meath manager chats to John Scally and reflects on a life shaped by resilience, faith, and a deep-rooted connection to place, offering his trademark wisdom, warmth and hard-earned perspective on sport, community...
IRELAND’S OWN is pleased to announce details of our 2026 Writing Competitions. Entrants are invited to compete for €2,450 in gift-card prizes. OPEN SHORT STORY SECTION The Open Short Story section (2,000 words maximum) is open to all and...
BY PATRICK KAVANAGH The bicycles go by in twos and threes – There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn tonight, And there’s the half-talk code of mysteries And the wink-and-elbow language of delight. Half-past eight and there is not a spot Upon a...
ISN’T IT great that we have got a run of good summer weather at last! I’m generally sanguine about whatever kind of weather we get, but I have my preferences, and I like dry and warm during the summer months. This feels more important this...
Margaret Hayward's stories reflect great changes that have taken place in Ireland in the last century, bringing warm nostalgia which will resonate with many. €7.99. Purchase from Amazon.com, Buy the Book.ie & Swenys Pharmacy Lincoln Place,...
■ 3rd JULY 1891: sees the birth of Bridget Elizabeth Dowling (1891 – 1969) in Dublin. She later married Alois Hitler Jr in London in 1910 and subsequently settled in Liverpool. They had met the previous year at the Dublin Horse Show, where...
THERE WAS nothing we liked better than paying a visit to Tom Moriarty’s hardware shop in Killorglin. It was one of those old-fashioned country shops that boasted an eclectic mix of farm and garden supplies and homewares too. It was where...
Dear Editor, What a photograph to grace the front cover of the 29 May issue, the threshing machine in County Waterford, around October 1923. Twenty six people captured in a single frame: twenty three men, one woman, two children. A whole...