On the 31st May 1916, Patrick Clarke wrote to Dublin Castle from Letterkenny with the following words: “Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, May 31st 1916 The Hon. Undersecretary, Dublin Castle Hon. Sir, I have a boy 14 years of age, although he would pass for a boy of 15 years, is strong and healthy, but has a horror for
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It was revealed that it was 150 years ago today that St. Conal’s Hospital (or the Donegal District Lunatic Asylum as it was known then) was opened. George Wilkinson, who had also designed the Workhouse, drew up plans for the building of a new hospital in the early 1860s for the Lunacy Board and Matthew
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In May 1921, during the height of the War of Independence, Peadar O’Donnell was commanding an IRA flying column in West Donegal and large detachments of British forces from Derry were sent to that area in an attempt to capture them. O’Donnell issued an order to Anthony Dawson, O/C of Letterkenny Company in the absence
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At approximately 1am on Wednesday May 6th 1942, postman Willie John Kelly woke up from his residence at 82 Lower Main Street, to smell a fire burning next door in Larkin’s Bakery. Frank Larkin, son of the former Town Clerk, John G. Larkin, had opened the bakery nine years previously, three doors up from the
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