Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

John Hynes worked in practically every county in Ireland to provide a mains piped water supply. He eliminated the daily struggle of people , who carried gallons of water by hand in buckets from wells, village pumps or rivers to cook, wash clothes, wash children and wash themselves. In 2016. at l...

"The success of JOTS is owed to the efforts of many people, and as the years have flown by, it has grown into a self-generating success, as each year interest in the Journal has grown worldwide, and more contributors, especially in the local area, and among our international diaspora, have put pe...

This book charts and celebrates the 90th anniversary of Curravagh National School in Glangevlin, Co. Cavan. Tara Scott is the principal of Curravagh National School, while her husband Brendan Scott was the historian in residence for Cavan County Council during the Decade of Centenaries programme.

Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north-east of the country. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The dream of having more control over their farms, even of owning them, drove man...