Celebrate the Graduate by Karen Slammon
Karen Slammon on school graduation ceremonies – then and now! Over the last few weeks,
Mining Memories is all about living history and gives you an opportunity to submit your writing to writing.ie. This section is all about your recollections and memories whether from yesterday or from fifty years ago. What can you remember of your school days? What was the most dramatic incident in your life? Share your memories and help build the National Folklore Collection to reflect the lives of Irish people, wherever they are living. We are keen to see all kinds of memories in submissions of up to 1500 words, poetry or prose.
Irish History and the Women of 1916 by Michael Clemenger
Author Michael Clemenger on how Irish history has betrayed the lesbian women of the 1916
Changing Communications by Karen Slammon
Writer Karen Slammon on the means of communication in years gone by – that are
It’s Grand by Byddi Lee
Author Byddi Lee on flying over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter with her mother
My Thomas Sabo Bracelet by Áine Kelly
Before I opened the packet, I knew by its distinctive round shape, what it contained:
Treats for a Tanner by Dee Scallan
Tanner: a pre-decimal term for a sixpence . . . How I loved my Sunday
Easter Traditions by Grace O’Reilly
Easter Traditions As we have wiped off the last chocolatey smudges from our mouths, I
The Ironbound Shores of Home by Emma Fielder
Emma Fielder is ‘now happily ensconced in the second year of my Masters of creative
First School Trousers by Dan Daly
Writer Dan Daly was born in Tralee, grew up on a Kerry farm and spent
Beneath Glass Mountain’s Veil by Sandra Behan
Sandra Behan: We were miners, bound to each other and to this land, forever shaped by
Snappin’ Twine by Ursula Kane Cafferty
Snappin’ Twine . . . As a child of the midlands but always with one
Room by Thomas Martin
Thomas Martin with a memory from his youth . . . I can remember every
Aloned by Keith Elliott
June 25th 1972 was a Sunday. It was a sunny day. I woke up that
My Local Park by Phil Carrick
Writer Phil Carrick on the death of her mother and how a walk in Tymon
Child of Achievement: A Childhood Memory by Sarah Fitzgerald
Writer and disability advocate Sarah Fitzgerald on how a childhood memory is a reminder of
From Spangle Hill to West Cork by Denis Cronin
I was born in Cork but on the wrong side of the tracks. Spangle Hill,
Rural Electrification and Farming Life by Michael Clemenger
Author Michael Clemenger recalls rural electrification and farming life sometime in the 1950’s in Co
Through the Keyhole by Morna Sullivan
Morna Sullivan has been reading and writing poems since she could read and write .
Capturing the Past: Remembering Carlow by Maria O’Rourke
Author Maria O’Rourke on the labour of love that culminated in the publication of her
The Life and Times of a Tipp. Hurling Supporter by Tommy Treacy
The hay was saved but… The life and times of a Tipperary Hurling Supporter by
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