Caolagh Grimes delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear FEBRUARY 8, 1975 Gweedore sisters on Manchester bomb charges Two Gweedore-born sisters were accused in Manchester crown Court on Monday of helping to make bombs which were planted in the city centre shops in Manchester. A total of nine incidents involving […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Way We Were in Donegal
Caolagh Grimes delves into the archives of the Donegal News to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. FEBRUARY 4, 2000 PROTEST AT JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Members of the Convoy Free Presbyterian Church staged a protest outside An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny on Wednesday night against the production of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar”. Led by […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Way We Were in Donegal
Róise Collins delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. If you have a photograph you would like published, send it to editor@donegalnews.com JANUARY 18, 1975 – 50 years ago ROUGH SEAS HALT SEARCH FOR MISSING FOUR THE heavy gale force winds which have lashed the coast line since the […]
From the archives: The way we were in Donegal
Róise Collins delves into the archives to bring you the news and images from yesteryear. If you have a photograph you would like published, send it to editor@donegalnews.com JANUARY 1, 1975 DONEGAL MAY RIDE OUT WORST OF ECONOMIC RECESSION As stories continue to come in of factory lay-offs in most parts of the country, the […]
Two Donegal County Archive Collections available online
TWO Donegal County Archive collections have been digitised and are now available online. The collections include information on Fanad Health Club, 1931 – 1935 and the Social and Cultural Study of Crofter Life on the West Donegal Seaboard, a thesis by Patrick O’Neill in 1940. The Fanad Life Club collection includes a sheet outlining the […]