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14 March 2025
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at the Aidan Heavey Library Athlone

Stories, music and song flowed from the Aidan Heavey Library today to mark the upcoming St. Patrick’s weekend. The Dean Kelly National School were at Athlone Library to perform a selection of Irish ballads. The students sang a range of songs from ‘Ireland’s Call’ to ‘Molly Malone’ with members of the audience joining in and […]

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8 May 2023
Alice Ginnell’s Civil War: December 1921 to July 1922

In an earlier edition (see article by Dr Ann Marie O’Brien) and podcast, we discussed the life and career of Alice King who was born near Mullingar in 1882 to James and Georgina King. On 30 January 1902 she married Laurence Ginnell (whose career we followed in these podcasts and in the following article by […]

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