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The centenary of the Sack of Balbriggan by the Black and Tans in September 1920 takes place next year and Balbriggan & District Historical Society is working to commemorate this major historic event in an appropriate and inclusive manner. This critically important part of (more…)
Here is a great photo which is believed to be over 70 years old and Dessie Creighton has asked us to see if we can help to identify any of the people in the photo. This is an old one so you may be one you need to check with the grand parents. We have numbered all the people in the photo (more…)
Collier the Robber is a well-known figure in the folklore of Fingal. The story of this infamous highwayman was still embedded in the folk memory long after his death in 1849. When the Schools Folklore Collection was undertaken in the 1930s, Jane Larkin, a pupil at Balscaddan N.S. wrote about (more…)
The Fingal Fieldnames Project, now in its second year, focuses on empowering communities to ensure the survival of a vital part of our heritage and culture. It aims to help participants record, log and understand fieldnames in their area. Every field across the country has had a name at one (more…)
A Ceremony to mark the Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin on Easter Sunday 21 April 2019 commencing at 12 noon. The Ceremony will be led by the President Michael D. Higgins, An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, T.D. and the Minister (more…)
The official launch of the Balbriggan Heritage Trail took place in the beautiful Bremore Castle on Tuesday night. Eight information boards have been strategically placed around the town and the Balbriggan coastline detailing; Water on Balbriggan Mills, Hamilton’s and the Founding of Balbriggan, (more…)
There was a great turnout once again for the Operation Transformation Ad Break Challenge in Balbriggan this evening. As this was the final ad break challenge and the participants certainly gave it there all. The final episode of Operation Transformation will be aired on 27th February (more…)
Patricia Langon has launched a new website called Reimagine Rockabill. Rockabill is a group of two islands, “The Rock” and “The Bill”, lying in the western Irish Sea about 6 kilometres east-north-east of Skerries. The larger island is home to the Rockabill Lighthouse which is owned by the (more…)
Back in October 2017 and February 2018 we brought you the new that €4 million had been allocated in the 2018-2020 capital programme to Bremore Castle. SLR Consulting were awarded the contract to undertake a commercial plan for Bremore Castle that will create a (more…)
The epic story of Ireland Lighthouses and the people who worked to keep Ireland’s coastline safe has been well documented in a new series Great Lighthouses of Ireland. Managed by Irish Lights these lighthouses tell the story of how the lighthouses first came to be The programme looks (more…)
This evening Balbriggan & District Historical Society launched a photo exhibition in the Bracken Court Hotel. In 2016 Balbriggan & District Historical Society acquired two albums of photographs which were taken and exhibited in the year 1893. They show scenes of Balbriggan and its people at (more…)
Fingal County Council has welcomed the decision of Vision Independent Productions and RTE to base its successful Operation Transformation programme in Balbriggan for its 2019 season. In a new departure for the popular programme, it will work alongside Fingal County Council (more…)