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Athy Eye On The Past: November 2025
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Athy Eye On The Past: Athy's Sporting Heritage
Association football, soccer to you and me, Gaelic football, rugby and tennis, all played within the confines of a unique sporting comp...
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Athy Eye On The Past: The Woodstock Allotment Project
President Michael D. Higgins recent address in Athy regarding the value of a caring community was brought home to me during the week when I ...
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Athy Eye On The Past: General Election 1920 and South Kildare
Towards the end of November 1918 the local newspapers reported on the arrangements made in the Athy area with regard to the General Election...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Quakers and the Quaker Meeting House in Athy
This year we celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the civic guards later named the Garda Siochana. The new Irish police force wa...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Johnny Day and emigration
The English accents intermingled with the Irish accents during the prayers of the faithful spoke of family lives separated by the Irish ...
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Athy Eye On The Past: April 2021
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Athy Eye On The Past: November 2023
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Athy Eye On The Past: 2025
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Athy Eye On The Past: Bray House and Its Owners and Photograph of Dunne Family
Driving out of Athy on the road to Castledermot I have passed on many occasions on the left hand side what appears to be the remains of...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Michael Wall's Memoirs
During the past week I read a publication edited by Kildare poet, Ann Egan, in which a number of our senior citizens published their me...
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Athy Eye On The Past: December 2007
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Athy Eye On The Past: Peter Corcoran, Terence Rattigan, Anthony Tormey and Matty Cross
This week I want to bring together a few notes from my scrap book of local history culled from many sources over the years. These bits and ...
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Athy Eye On The Past: February 2021
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Athy Eye On The Past: July 2012
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Athy Eye On The Past: July 1994
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Athy Eye On The Past: Athy's railway footbridge
The foot bridge across the railway tracks at the local railway station has always been presumed to be an integral part of the fabric of...
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Athy Eye On The Past: World War 1 Convention - Athy Heritage Centre
This coming September the Athy Heritage Centre Museum will host a convention on World War 1. Initially I felt that the event w...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Christian Brothers in Athy
On the weekend of the 23rd of September the people of Athy will come together to pay tribute to the Christian Brothers who will soon be leav...
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Athy Eye On The Past: War Poets and John O'Donnell Solicitor and Poet of Carlow
August is generally one of the quieter months around the town of Athy as most of us are returning to our work places after our Summer b...
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Athy Eye On The Past: John Farrell
At six foot, three inches high and weighing twenty stone, he was clearly a man of considerable stature. Indeed, one of the Irish national n...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Policing and crime in early 19th century Athy
Throughout the greater part of the 19th century the dark clouds of unemployment hung over Athy. The closure of the tanyards and the winding...
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Athy Eye On The Past: May 2010
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Athy Eye On The Past: March 2002
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Athy Eye On The Past: Alexander Duncan
"In these parts the Protestants all are about one in ten, composed of Irish Church, Presbyterians, Methodists, Brethren and an odd antique o...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Alice Quinn, Esther Flynn and Sarah Cahill
Emigration has always been a central feature of Irish provincial town life but particularly so in Ireland of the post economic war years...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Iona
In company with about 70 other local history buffs for the most part from Northern Ireland I visited the Island of Iona last weekend. A sma...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Photos LSF Athy / Athy Show 1969 / Athy Musical Show
This week I am showing three photographs which will bring back memories for readers of Eye on the Past . The first photograph is of a...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Eye on the Past 902
With a name conjuring up images of a breakfast toast maker I was somewhat surprised to find that Toastmasters is a convivial gathering of pe...
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Athy Eye On The Past: Sharpe practices in the Napoleonic Wars
The Duke of Wellington, or Arthur Wellesley, as he was known to his family, is perhaps the most famous Irish soldier of all time. He is cred...
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Athy Eye On The Past: 2022
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Athy Eye On The Past: January 1996
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