Newsletter 3, Winter 2018

Newsletter 3, Winter 2018

Our Winter 2018 newsletter was printed in December 2018 and distributed at local shops and Corrandulla Post Office. We welcome articles, items of interest, other material and suggestions for future editions. Articles in this edition: Was there a Famine in the West of Ireland in 1925? by Johnny Burke; Reflections on the Past, by Kathleen O’Shea; Big Deal, by Peter Newell; and Lectern, a poem by Joe McDermott.

Newsletter 2, Summer 2018

Newsletter 2, Summer 2018

Our Summer 2018 newsletter was printed in June 2018 and distributed at the Corrandulla Show on 24 June, and thereafter at local shops and Corrandulla Post Office. We welcome articles, items of interest, other material and suggestions for future editions. Articles in this edition: DNA Testing for Family History Research – Science Bringing Genealogy to the Technological Generation, by Irene McGoldrick; Writing a Local History,  by Johnny Burke; The Stone-Built Wells of Annaghdown, by Jessica Cooke; A 1927 Visitor to Annaghdown, a diary entry by William Ford; and The Annaghdown Letter of Arthur J. Braginton, from the 1908 book Letters of Arthur J.Braginton.

Newsletter 1, Winter 2017

Newsletter 1, Winter 2017

Our first newsletter was printed and distributed locally in December 2017. Articles in this edition: Boreen Gort Dobe Buí, by Peter Newell; Early Annaghdown Settlers in New Zealand, by David L. Cavanagh; Annaghdown Heritage Society: The First 21 Years, by Br. Conal Thomas; Petty Sessions Records, by Paul Greaney; and from the archives: Quack Doctors, from The Tuam Herald of April 18, 1840.

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