"There's only one Frank"

A vibrant family friendly street 70 years ago

One of the most influential figures in Athy

Athy is not regarded as a hurling town, but records show that as early as 1887 a hurling club was formed in the town

The story of the town hall in many ways tells the story of Athy

More local connections that you may think

The graphic novel is a medium with which I am not terribly familiar. As a young fellow, I eagerly perused the shelves of my local library in search of the latest unread detective novel.

Skills abounded with bicycle mechanics, garage mechanics, blacksmiths and pattern moulders working side by side in the huge Duthie Large complex.

Mr Taaffe was presented with The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) medal “in furthering the fortunes of Athy and delivering the Shackleton Museum and Autumn School”.

'Having gone through the education system at both primary and secondary levels in the local CBS School, I knew little or nothing of the town’s history'

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board of Guardians

Exhibition opens on 19 April

Frank Taaffe's also explores the town's earliest buildings

Edward Carson once defended him

"We need more independent shops along our main streets"

The Athy Lions Club will hold a book fair on 8 March

Should we reconsider naming Athy's streets

The corridors which once echoed to the shuffling sounds of bare footed men, women and children, have been replaced by modern wards where the elderly and the sick are comforted and cared for with compassion and skill

The winds of 1839 brought a different type of devastation

The Athy and Co Kildare landlord, the Duke of Leinster, was amongst the first of the Irish landlords to attempt to defeat his tenants’ rights under the 1870 Act

Illustrates the many changes wrought by time on Athy

Can you identify the people in the photo?

'Let’s hope that a more forward-thinking approach to this issue is applied in December 2025'

Children’s literature is now very prominent in bookshops, but that was not always the case

We as a community need to be innovative with the opportunities presented by events such as the Shackleton Autumn School

For the price of one shilling and six pence or nine pence, were treated to a film and a serial show

As a young man of 19, I wasn’t hugely focused or interested in politics in 1961. I have stronger memories of the opening of the Dreamland Ballroom on the Kilkenny Road, Athy

For most of us, the Boer War has little lasting impact on our collective memory but there are little resonances here and there.

Perhaps the most important artifact will be the rent table from Kilkea

“The county council owns Woodstock Castle, but it had the opportunity on three occasions in the last 30 years to purchase the White Castle, but hasn’t shown interest"

A recent report commissioned by Historic England, the public body which promotes and protects that country’s historic environment, confirmed that the best way to boost a town’s ailing economy is to invest in its cultural past.

WHILE browsing in a bookshop recently I came across a recent publication titledLetters of note. It is a compilation, by Sean Usher, as he describes it of the ‘World’s Most Entertaining, Inspiring and Unusual Letters’.

DESPITE the fact that over 1,200 inmates of the local Workhouse died during the Great Famine I have been unable to find any references to these deaths in the minute books of the Athy town commissioners.

BRICKMAKING in Ireland written by Susan Roundtree and published recently by Wordwell, is a comprehensive record of where clay bricks were made in Ireland and how this locally made indigenous material shaped the character of Irish buildings for more ...