Miss Duggan Swims CraicOn got sent this by Don McGinley. It is dated from September 10th 1927, seven months before my father Gerry McLaughlin was born. I would have like to have asked him if he knew Miss Duggan or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Moville Smuggler Escapes Michael Haining, who left Moville in 1964, and who was back in town for his first major visit since then, told me this story today and I thought it was worth sharing. It involves a bus trip […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Australian in Moville I received this today by email. I am a journalist wishing to visit ancestral Moville-renowned for the exit of emigrants heading for Australia. I hope to arrive in/near Moville mid June and need to know if there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Gerry McLaughlin Senior who was born in the River Row in 1928 but now lives in Greenock, Scotland. Neil McLaughlin Neil McLaughlin used to live in the River Row. It was in No. 13 in the house now inhabited […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CraicOn Readership CraicOn started in November 2006. It has been pretty successful in Moville and probably even more so in Muff where Grainne McCool runs the Muff versions of the website. More than 40% of the audience is now outside […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Moville IRA Soldiers We have a picture of Moville IRA soldiers on parade in 1922. I’m told that they are parading down Bath Green where the car park is now. Patsy Farren made me aware of the photo. It is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Field Marshal Montgomery It’s well-known that Bernard Montgomery, or Field Marshal Montgomery (or Monty) was brought up in Moville. The Montgomery family home is here. Indeed, Bishop Montgomery, whom I think is his uncle, wrote a history of Moville and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Irish were slaves too – many thousands of them
Mar10
on March 10, 2014
at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Buncrana, Carndonagh, Derry, Donegal, Greencastle, L/Derry, Letterkenny, Moville, Redcastle
Slaves Everyone knows about the African slave trade to America. It’s in all the US history books. However, what is less well-known is that it was not just the Africans who were sold as slaves. The Irish were traded too. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A History of the Area
Mar07
on March 7, 2014
at 8:18 am
Posted In: Buncrana, Carndonagh, Derry, Donegal, Greencastle, L/Derry, Letterkenny, Moville, Redcastle
KINNAGOE BAY, THE LONG GLEN AND SURROUNDING LAND. On a wall of the Doges Palace in Venice the sixteenth century map of Renaissance Europe highlights the edge of Venetian temporal and spiritual interest in the west of Europe as the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…