Newsletters

Our Summer 2019 newsletter was printed in June 2018 and distributed at the Corrandulla Show on 23 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: The 1918-19 Flu Epidemic in Annaghdown; The Coen Family, by Mary Margaret Burke; Land Agitation in Galway, 1920-23, by Johnny Burke; and from the archives: Visit to Old Irish Home – Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cavanagh Will Go Back to Galway, from The Omaha Daily Bee, August 4, 1908.

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.

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.