President ploughs on amid record turnout
Category: Farming
‘Wonderful’ dairymaid Hannah hangs up her apron
Mount Congreve retirement presentation, autumn 1964 – (from left) Jimmy Power, Willie Power, Tony Hanrahan,…
Sweet sixteen
Almost everyone has old family photos at home of some description or vintage. This one…
Wireless connections across the River Suir
The brouhaha about Waterford forfeiting their home NHL game against Kilkenny, and the championship ties…
Banks of Suir a lime kiln hotbed
Lime kilns (or limekilns) were once common features of rural landscapes throughout Ireland in the…
Followers of fifties fashion at The Sweep
A couple of photos from the early fifties. The first is of Betty Lynch with…
Joe’s ‘production cycle’ took him to dairies daily
Entries in Joe Kennedy's 1921 (or 1922) cow-testing diary featured some very notable milk suppliers.…
Pedigree chums at the cattle mart
Richie Larkin, Coolagadden, Kilmeaden, holding a purebred Hereford at a Bull Show in (Thomas) Power's…
Kilmeaden creamery couple
Denis Murphy, manager of Kilmeaden Co-operative Creamery and his wife Mary Keane-O'Keeffe, a native of…
Old Ireland recreated by photographer Richard Fitzgerald
Richard Fitzgerald, one of Ireland’s most influential ‘old world’ photographers, died in England in November…