County Tyrone
A video about County Tyrone in Northern Ireland from the Weans' World website, weansworld.org
Viking surnames in Ireland
This is a short video of the Irish Origenes surnames of Ireland map showing where farmers with Viking associated surnames cluster in 1911. The map can be purchased from the Irish Origenes website irishorigenes.com
Henderson family tour of Donoghmore and Drumbearn - County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Top Irish Baby Names; Strahan family roots; Co. Tyrone genealogy; Irish Birth Index; IF 95
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We feature weekly videos on Irish Genealogy; History, Heraldry and Old Style 'sean nos' song, with leading author Michael C. O'Laughlin. Founded in 1978 with headquarters at
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Among Todays Topics:
1) Strahan is the name of the week.
2) Searching for: Agnew, MacDonald, Kelleher, Geary
3) The Birth Index of Ireland is the Book of the month
4) County Tyrone is the County of the Day
5) Top Baby Names in Northern Ireland
6) Black Santa Sitout begins
7) Snowtopia in County Dublin
Timeline for this weeks audio broadcast:
This Weeks Topics:1:05
Notes from Mike: 3:00
Book of the Month: 4:45
County of the Month: 7:17
The Magnificent Seven: 10:09
Irish Name of the Day: 12:36
Website of the Week: 16:44
Curious News and Notes: 18:19
Car accsident A45 Co.Tyrone
Colin Broderick - Northern Ireland Lad
Colin Broderick was born in Northern Ireland and lived there through the Troubles,” the Irish struggle against England for independence from 1968 to 1998 where more than 3500 people were killed. He has written two memoirs, That’s That and The Orangutan, about his life in Ireland and in New York. He is now co-writing and co-producing the film, The Rising: 1916 about Ireland’s rebellion to end British rule in Ireland.
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Toy Hearts perform If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again at Omagh 2012
If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again performed by Toy Hearts at the Omagh Bluegrass Festival in the Ulster-American FolkPark, County Tyrone, N.Ireland on 1st September 2012.
Free Michael Campbell!
Video made to highlight wrongful captivity of Irish Republican POW Michael Campbell. Michael is held in horrific conditions in Lithuania. He is currently the only Irish Republican POW to be held captive in a foreign prison!
Paddy's going home
Two years have flown by since my Dad died over in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. The place of his birth.
After spending fifty odd years in England he always had a hankering to go back to his roots. The pull of the Old Country got stronger by the years.
He had five happy years back with his Irish family and friends in his little house on North Street.
This is for his family and friends.
Omagh.m4v
The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.Twenty-nine people died as a result of the attack and approximately 220 people were injured.The attack was described by the BBC as Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity and by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as an appalling act of savagery and evil.Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness condemned the attack and the RIRA itself.
Provisional IRA set off firebombs in Birmingham for first time 30 August 1973
Part of The Midlands campaign. The IRA set off a number of incendiary devices around Birmingham city ruining about shops & business.
Two not guilty, one guilty in FBI-uncovered IRA plot
Two not guilty, one guilty in FBI-uncovered IRA plot
By Eoin ReynoldsTwo men have been found not guilty of IRA membership following a Special Criminal Court trial in which an FBI agent uncovered a Dublin-based plot to buy a grenade and Semtex online. Judges at the non-jury court convicted a third accused, 45-year-old Jonathan Hawthorn of Ballintyre Downs, Ballinteer, Dublin, who was found guilty of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on September 14, 2016...
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Ulster American Folk Park, Northern Ireland - Mock Traveller Fight
The Ulster American Folk Park in County Tyrone celebrates migration from Ulster to America. From time to time costumed performers will entertain visitors. In this short video, a scuffle takes place with Irish Travellers and the Police
Kitty: The Saint of the Slums (2014)
A poetic and visionary Short Documentary, which unearths the Life, Labour & Legacy of Irish-migrant and Liverpool legend, Kitty Wilkinson. Speaking directly to the experts in her story, we follow Kitty’s reverential journey from her humble beginning in Ireland, to the cobbled streets of Liverpool town. We explore the conditions of Migration, Poverty and Disease, investigating the actual root of how and why Kitty’s work consequently revolutionised, & transformed UK healthcare, forever. The Saint of the Slums, the Poor Helper of the Poor, the People’s Patron, or perhaps an act of God. This is the life of our friend, Kitty Wilkinson, the Originator of Public Baths & Washhouses.
Introducing: Michael Kelly, Rev. Elizabeth Storey & Greg Quiery.
With Thanks to: Edwina Lea & Joanne Sartorius.
Directed & Produced by Connor Richmond & Matthew Harrison.
Director of Photography by Connor Richmond.
Sound Recording & Boom Operation by Sophie Malone & Alex Walsh.
Lighting Design by Matthew Harrison.
Edited by Connor Richmond.
Research Manager: Sophie Malone.
Script Development by Rebecca Seddon.
Production Coordinator: Alex Walsh.
Assistant (Northern Ireland): Sarah Curry.
Original Music by David Dunlop.
With Contributions from: Michaela Hamlin, Heather Montgomery, Deirdre Havlin, Conall Dunlop & Rory Clements.
'She Moved Through the Fair'
Performed by Clan Wallace. With Thanks to Seoras Wallace. Courtesy of Headhunter Records Ltd.
'She Moved Through the Fair'
Performed by Cara Dillon. With Thanks to Cara Dillon & Sam Lakeman. Courtesy of Charcoal Records.
Design Work & Artistry by Craig Jeavons (Iceni Media Ltd.)
Additional Time Lapse Videography by Tyler Collins Photography.
With Acknowledgements to Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, St Michael's Irish Centre, and Mersey Ferries (MerseyTravel).
Filmed with Permission from National Museums Northern Ireland, At The Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, County Tyrone.
In Connection with Edge Hill University, 2013-2014.
Donemana Womens Institute visit to Monreagh Centre
Donemana Womens Institute vist to Monreagh Heritage and Education Centre 07 May 2012
- Abandoned House - County Kerry
Captain Tobias Black had been warned to avoid any damage to the ancient cairn which stood on his newly purchased Woodville* estate. The ignorant Captain Black, however, took an axe and swiftly cut down the May tree whose gnarled roots had pushed through the cairn’s stones over countless years. Local labourers wanted nothing to do with the construction of the Captain’s new mansion so it was arranged that a team of workers and craftsmen would be dispatched from England. Perhaps as a sign of the sorry events which would later occur, their vessel was caught in the Great Storm of 1839 and all crew and passengers drowned. Many months later, another group of workers eventually arrived at Woodville* and soon the cairn and the ancient tomb within it, were obliterated, making way for the mansion house to begin to take shape. The workers, however, never seemed to stay for more than a few months and construction was painfully slow. It was a little over a decade later that Woodville House* was finally complete. Just as the Great Famine was taking grip on the surround countryside, Captain Black moved in with his new bride, Elizabeth. The Great Famine brought terrible hardship to his tenants. The Captain, however, ruthlessly enforced his collection of rent and anybody who could not pay was, promptly, evicted. More than a dozen times, groups of famished men and women with crying children were reduced to seeking refuge in hedges and under trees. Woodville House and its occupants became a focus for community hatred and it wasn’t long before the tenants formed a plan. A hag was brought from the country and employed to practise her foul arts and bring an end to Captain Tobias Black. The first recorded deaths were Elizabeth and her unborn child; she apparently tripped on the staircase and broke her neck in the fall. The Captain took his own life three days later. His body was found swinging from a balcony, his head almost severed by his makeshift noose. The Captain’s two brothers, Edward and Charles, arranged for the bodies to be interred into what would become the Woodville Graveyard, a few hundred metres west of the house, in a patch of land that overlooked the River Liffey. Within six months both Edward and Charles had joined their brother in the graveyard; Edward killed by a fall from his horse and then Charles apparently suffering from heart failure. A relative inherited the estate, but wanted nothing to do with the house and arranged for it to be advertised to let in the national press. The advertisement ran for a number of months and eventually Mr Clement Scott signed a lease for the house, and took up residence with his wife Mabel, and their three daughters Alice, Elizabeth and Mary. Elizabeth grew sick first, shortly followed by Alice and then their father. They were struck by vomiting then endless diarrhoea. Within days Elizabeth was dead. A doctor diagnosed cholera, suspecting that the well that supplied the house with drinking water was tainted by some kind of infection. He fought to save the lives of Alice and her father but by the end of the week they were also both dead. The grim bodies of all three members of the Scott family were interred in the graveyard behind the house. Mabel Scott and her only surviving daughter, Mary, fled to England, apparently saying that the house was cursed.
Wartime song
A wartime favourite
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Irish Americans | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Irish Americans
00:00:47 1 Irish immigration to the United States
00:00:58 1.1 17th to mid-19th century
00:05:21 1.1.1 Irish in the South
00:08:46 1.2 Mid-19th century and later
00:11:14 1.2.1 Civil War through early 20th century
00:18:37 1.2.2 Language
00:21:08 1.3 Occupations
00:25:05 1.3.1 Local government
00:26:14 1.3.2 Police
00:27:34 1.3.3 Teachers
00:28:57 1.3.4 Nuns
00:30:13 2 Religion
00:31:24 2.1 Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant relations
00:35:11 2.2 Catholics
00:40:46 2.3 Protestants
00:41:49 2.3.1 Presbyterians
00:44:58 2.3.2 Methodists
00:45:54 3 Discrimination
00:48:37 3.1 Stereotypes
00:52:06 4 Sense of heritage
00:54:27 4.1 Cities
00:59:19 5 Notable people
00:59:28 5.1 In politics and government
01:03:00 5.2 Political leanings
01:08:52 5.2.1 American presidents with Irish ancestry
01:17:10 5.2.1.1 Vice Presidents of Irish descent
01:17:48 5.2.1.2 Other presidents of Irish descent
01:18:05 5.2.2 Irish-American Justices of the Supreme Court
01:18:41 6 Contributions to American culture
01:24:28 7 Sports
01:25:26 7.1 Baseball
01:27:02 7.2 Gaelic sports
01:27:28 8 Entertainment
01:28:42 9 Irish-American communities
01:29:56 10 See also
01:30:50 11 Notes
01:30:58 12 Other sources
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33 million Americans — 10.5% of the total population — reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.7 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people separately identified as Scotch-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots and Anglo-Irish Protestant Dissenters who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. However, whether the Scotch-Irish should be considered Irish is disputed.
This Week In Irish Sports History — Aug. 20
Blue & Gold Illustrated's Lou Somogyi and Dan Murphy review the effects of the critical Under The Tarnished Dome book on the 20th anniversary of its publication.