Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020-23
Competitions Scór competitions were established by the GAA in 1969 “to promote Ireland’s traditional pastimes and culture while offering club members the chance to meet up, have fun and represent their club during the winter months while Football and Hurling had ceased.” There are eight events in Scór that cover […]
Born in June 1877 in Aghoo to James McGoohan and Margaret O’ Donnell, Phil McGoohan was a well-known writer of ballads and poetry who composed many songs that give us a little insight into life in the early 1900s that we don’t often get from more formal history books. One […]
Ó Máille, Tomás (1880–1938), an Irish scholar and professor of Irish at University College Galway , was born 30 March 1880 in Muintir Eoin near Leenaun, Co. Galway. He was the first professor of Irish at University College Galway from 1909 until his death in 1938 Find out more Ó […]
St. Brigid’s Pipe Band, Kiltubrid, pictured on their first day out in public, in Laheen Leitrim’s Longest Running Pipe Band Founded in 1949, the Kiltubrid Pipe Band is without question Leitrim’s longest running pipe band. Having graced many a sporting field, parades, festivals and events both in Ireland and abroad, […]
The Cavan & Leitrim Railway “The Cavan, Leitrim & Roscommon Light Railway & Tramway” opened in 1887, to serve the more remote parts of those three counties. Owing to the withdrawal of support for a “baronial guarantee” from the Roscommon Jury, “Roscommon” was dropped from the original title and the […]
When you search for “fife and drum band” on the Leitrim local studies system, you are given 95 results which is quite a lot considering that there are currently no fife and drum bands in the county. Even Kiltubrid who boasts the longest running pipe band in the county, had […]
Born in 1909 in Drumshanbo North, between the parishes of Aughavas and Cloone, Nan Fitzpatrick was one of nine children born to James and Rosie Fitzpatrick. They lived on a small farm and she attended Cloonsarn School. She couldn’t miss having an interest in music and song as her family […]
“Reynolds, George Nugent (c.1767–1802), poet, wit, and head of the Reynolds family of Loughscur, was born at Letterfine, Co. Leitrim, son of George Reynolds (d. 1786), also called George Nugent Reynolds or ‘Squire’ Reynolds, and Jane Reynolds (née Connell) from Cranary, Co. Longford. He lived most of his life at Letterfine House, […]
Famous composer and harpist Turlough O’Carolan spent much of his life in Leitrim. In the 1680s, he moved to Carrick on Shannon with his family where his father was a blacksmith and farm hand on the St. George Estate. It was the McDermott Roe family in nearby Alderford that offered […]
“The Kingdom of West Breifne (Irish: Breifne Ua Ruairc) or Breifne O’Rourke was a historic kingdom of Ireland that existed from 1256 to 1605, located in the area that is now County Leitrim. It took its present boundaries in 1583 when West Breifne was shired and renamed Leitrim, after the village of Leitrim, […]
