Thomas W. Croke was born in Cork in 1824 and after serving as Bishop of Auckland in New Zealand, became Archbishop of Cashel in 1875. He was a strong supporter of Irish Nationalism and as a result shared a passion for Irish freedom with the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr. Patrick O’Donnell. On Friday 31st July
Read MoreThe Freeman’s Journal on the 17th October 1785 had the following advertisement displayed: “The Commissioners of his Majesty’s Revenue having received information upon oath, that on the night of the 12th July last, the cellar of Alexander Hawes, Officer of Excise in the town of Letterkenny, which is made use of as a store for...
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On this day, 194 years ago, the so-called “Battle of Sprackburn” took place. An altercation between a marching group of Orangemen from Milford and the Catholics of Letterkenny threatened to spill into terrible bloodshed in an area near to Sprackburn, only for the intervention of Fr. James Gallagher. Father Gallagher had been...
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110 years ago today, St. Eunan’s College was officially opened as part of the Aonach an Dún Fair. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Old Seminary building (next to the Literary Institute) was in much need of repair. Following the completion of the Cathedral in 1901, one former pupil of the school, Bishop
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