Series: Moments with Monuments

Local historian Paddy O'Neilll tells us about Patrick Walsh and John Quinn who were killed during the War of Independence

Seamus Reid a member of Thomastown GAA club and PRO for the Kilkenny County Board tells us about flamboyant hurler ...

On a grassy patch among the beautiful ruins of Kells Priory there is a plaque of limestone with a poem ...

Tithes were the bane of the small farmer's lot in the mid 1800s and in 1831 the farmers in the ...

Over 100 years ago Ireland was adjusting to the arrival of the automobile. Petrol was sold in chemist shops, the ...

We go to Bennettsbridge and meet historian Peggy Walpole who gives us an insight into the activities at the creamery ...

John Ireland came from Burnchurch and he became the first Archbishop of Minnesota. He commissioned the construction of the beautiful ...

'George Jones sat here and showed everyone the way' George's twin brother Eamon explained the story behind the plaque

Owen Doyle, member of the Graiguenamanagh Historical Society tells us about Thomas Cloney, one of the generals of the 1798 ...

Joe Kennedy from the Callan Historical Society gives us an insight to the historical importance of the Callan Bridge