glenties

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A kiss on the cheek may be quite continental...

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Inniskeel Co-op Perpetual Trophy
  • Carol Maddock said:
    This photostream is going to hell in a handbasket! Should we be seeing these sorts of shenanigans? I'll have to get on to Joe Duffy about the lack of moral fibre... Signed, Outraged of Dublin 4
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The kissing lad deserves an award for those whiskers.
  • O Mac said:
    Carol Maddock Down with that sort of thing...At first glance I thought the kissee had won a baby... 1st prize 1 baby.. 2nd prize 2 babies. etc..
  • Mike Grimes said:
    O Mac or maybe... even...a...SPIDERbaby.

Fair Day, Glenties, Co. Donegal

  • 25 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Niah lets us down today - no data for glenties.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Patrick O'Donnell: 1901 and 1911
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The huge building in the distance with towers is the Union Workhouse, built 1846ish, demolished in 1960.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The OSI 25" map from 1905 labels the Hotel at left as the Donegal Highlands Hotel, which is what it is called today. It seems to be simply O'Donnells Hotel here, suggesting before 1905.

The Horse that didn't run...

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  • Ilia Alshanetsky said:
    Awesome...
  • Carol Maddock said:
    D'Alton Sports was the Cardinal D'Alton Games at Glenties on the weekend of 4 & 5 July 1971, “run in conjunction with the Glenties Homecoming Festival”. (Donegal News, 10 July 1971). Glenties Homecoming Festival opened on Friday 2 July and ran until 11 July. Don't know about the Queens, but this explains Exiles. The “Idea of the Homecoming Festival is to encourage emigrants from Glenties who are overseas to return home and take part in the festival activities in their home town during this week”. (Donegal Democrat, 2 July 1971)
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Carol Maddock Great, now we know that but what about the Horse? Who's going to take him to France?????
  • O Mac said:
    Streetview maps.app.goo.gl/kWP4zapi3bYvvoSq5
  • Carol Maddock said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons :) For the benefit of youngsters, or those of you Out Foreign, "Who's taking the horse to France?" was an ad for butter in the 70s/80s. It was full of simmering passions as well as sizzling salmon steaks. Here it is...