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When the Civil War reached Longford – Death of Patrick Columb

Patrick Columb was born in Dernaferst, Gowna, Co Cavan, literally a couple of hundred metres from the Longford border. The Columb family, like most of their neighbours, associated more with Longford that Cavan. Patrick attended Pulladoey National ...

23 Apr 2022 at 09:00

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Longford and London – Republican connections

Sir Henry Wilson from Ballinalee It is ironic indeed that the most active Longford man in London during the War of Independence was Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, in other words, the top man in the British Army. A more ...

10 Apr 2022 at 09:00

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Lecture on Longford’s Republican History set for this week

The talk is part of a series called Trasna na Tíre and will be accessible online on Wednesday next February 16 at 9pm. The lecture can be tuned into on this zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 861077363246324

13 Feb 2022 at 11:00

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All eyes on Edgeworthstown talk detailing shooting of More O'Farrell

A dispute over the eviction of poor tenants in Edgeworthstown led to a landlord’s son being shot dead by a group of IRA men on a January night at Lissard House between Edgeworthstown and Ballinalee. This famous event will be recalled at a ...

18 Nov 2022 at 11:00

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Longford Leader gallery: Plaudits aplenty as 'Longford's Republican Story 1900-2000' hits shelves

Just two of the superlatives which were used over the past seven days to describe the long awaited publication of Longford's Republican Story 1900-2000. The book, which took renowned Colmcille historian Seán Ó Súilleabháin five years to ...

07 Nov 2021 at 18:00

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Longford's Republican Story 1900- 2000 to be launched next week

The eagerly awaited ‘Longford’s Republican Story 1900-2000’ will be launched in a series of events over the coming week. After five years of painstaking research, the author, Seán Ó Súilleabháin, has brought to fruition the biggest and ...

24 Oct 2021 at 10:00

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Longford remembers Martin Hurson forty years after Hunger Strike

When internment was introduced in 1971 and Catholics/Nationalists were being burned out of their homes, thousands of refugees fled south, and some were accommodated in Longford. Bloody Sunday was another occasion when the horror of it ...

27 Jul 2021 at 10:00

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Longford business in operation since the early 1950s closes doors for last time

Seán and Margo Campbell closed the door on their grocery and butcher shop in Aughnacliffe for the last time on December 31, 2021. It was a nostalgic occasion as the Campbell business has been in operation since the early 1950s. ...

11 Jan 2022 at 01:20

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Longford historian and author to give Carrick-on-Shannon lecture on The Shooting of More O’Ferrall

Some weeks ago, Seán Ó Súilleabháin gave a talk in Edgeworthstown Library on the shooting of Richard More O’Ferrall in 1935. The talk drew a particularly large crowd which included relatives of the man who was killed on that ...

12 Mar 2023 at 11:00

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Talk on Drumlish – Longford’s Rebel Parish

Seán Ó Súilleabháin, author of Longford’s Republican Story 1900 -2000, will give a talk entitled Drumlish – Longford’s Rebel Parish - in the DB Men’s Shed in Drumlish on Thursday, February 23, starting at 8pm. County ...

21 Feb 2023 at 08:00

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Granard Booktown Festival: How north Longford town led the way in resisting British rule in Ireland

As part of the Granard Booktown Festival Seán Ó Súilleabháin will highlight the pivotal role of the Granard area in the fight for Irish independence and freedom in a talk this coming Friday, April 21. Granard was ...

20 Apr 2023 at 16:30

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Large Longford crowd remembers Seán Connolly and Tom Kelleher in Clonbroney

Fifty-one years later, on Sunday week last, the biggest crowd to assemble at that republican plot since then gathered to remember those two men. In glorious sunshine, hundreds of people from Longford and ...

08 Sept 2022 at 09:00

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