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"A glimpse back into an Ireland we deny knowing"
Extract from Declan Varley's Editorial in The Galway Advertiser
"The Gathering" Talks and Lectures
Free Conference Facilitated and Sponsored by Galway County Heritage Office
"The Price of Beef"
Michael Flannery, Victualler, Main St, Ballinrobe, 1950
'Strike on Here'
Western Pride Bakery 1967
A very Happy Christmas from Ballinrobe
From the Committee, friends and the Ballinrobe Community to you all, wherever you are in the world
A visit to our past through our Museum
Extracts from article by Áine Ryan in the Irish Times
Active Retirement Group
ARA Ballinrobe's vibrant Group
Ashford Castle
'Best of the Best' & only five miles from Ballinrobe
Ballinrobe - A Sense of Place
60 years of Ups and Downs in Ballinrobe
Ballinrobe - Race Course History - Part 1.
Interview with Mr. Jimmy Tierney RIP on aspects of the course's history in 1998
Ballinrobe - St Patrick's Greetings
To all our Friends, Community & Families wherever you are!
Ballinrobe and Heritage Week - 2011
Ballinrobes historic highlights to be included in free introductry talk for Heritage Week.
Ballinrobe business begins the fight-back
A positive business start-up leads the way!
Ballinrobe Heritage Tour - FREE with refreshments afterwards
All welcome on Friday 31 st July at 7 p.m. from Church Land car park
Ballinrobe History & Heritage Video
Bridileen O'Malley & Mary Farragher, Ballinrobe share information with Local Historian Averil Staunton
Ballinrobe Literary Institute - Athletics 1873 &
Newspaper info re Ballinrobe Literary Institute
Ballinrobe Literary Institute Athletics 1873
Can anybody help with information or ideas please?
Ballinrobe Local History
The Books of Survey and Distribution
Ballinrobe Magazine
The Bridge - Ballinrobe Parish Magazine
Ballinrobe Old Adverts
Milinary and Human Hair c. 1950s
Ballinrobe Race Course
New developments over the years.
Ballinrobe Racecourse
90th Birthday supplement by 'The Mayo News'
Ballinrobe Soccer Club
Ballinrobe Football Club
Ballinrobe to the Bronx
23rd May, 1989 - Reporter Jerry O'Callaghan
Ballinrobe Workhouse and what it might have been like.
While the Workhouse in Ballinrobe has mostly been destroyed this clip gives an ideas of what life would have been like for those who had to avail of its services.
Ballinrobe's Brass Band
The Rape of the Brass Band - Extracted from The Eavesdropper, Ballinrobes Newsmag c. 1988
Ballinrobe's Graveyards
'I am what you will be; I was what you are now'
Ballinrobe's Historic Sites - free-to-download 'app'
Two options for a userfriendly 'app' for your smartphone.
Ballinrobe's Historic Sites Walk
Walk took place on Wednesday 24th August 2011
Ballinrobe, Co Mayo - Historic Calendar 2016
Now available for sale in local shops or directly by post to your door
Ballinrobe: A Century of Change
Old postcard views with recent versions
Believe in Ballinrobe
New campaign which is proving very popular with great results
Bernie Sears
A Local Postman's memories
Calendar 2011 - Historic Ballinrobe
See U Tube clip with just one click!
Calendar for 2013 Historic Ballinrobe - launched at Heritage Day
It can be used as a diary, planner or calendar and in Irish and English
Can you dig it?
Training garden start up in Ballinrobe
Captain Boycott
Taken from: Irish Tourist Association Survey, 1945 - ITA/3/10 (87) - Mayo Co. Library, Castlebar.
David Shaw Smith
Maker of the 'Hands' series
Exploring Mayo
It has been described by people who read the final draft as "wonderful", "terrific" and "stunning".
Fishing on Lough Mask
Video clip - Year 1964
GMIT Mayo Campus Heritage Studies
Various studies of mainly Mayo interest
Green Are the Hills Far Away by Kathleen O'Toole O'Connell
Ballinrobe - Posthumous release of memoir by native of Ballinrobe
Group from Luzinay, France visit Ballinrobe
Resting for a moment after a tour of Ballinrobe's Heritage sites led by Averil Staunton
Happy Christmas or Happy Holidays
To all our Friends, Community & Families wherever you are!
Happy Easter
By Peter Costello, Ballinrobe, County Mayo
Happy St Patrick's Day
to our friends, families and our Diaspora worldwide
How did it start?
Christmas greetings
Interested in Local History and a third level qualification?
Course will run in Ballinrobe if sufficient interest is demonstrated by the Community
John King US Navy
Congressional Medal of Honour - US Navy
Maximising the Potential of Ballinrobe
Ballinrobe's Heritage a Marketable Commodity - are you interested?
Mayo Association film on Mayo
Ballinrobe could typify this films essence with her well known visitors, scenery, racing, fishing, history and heritage, music and dance and her emigrants and new immigrants!
Mayo.ie eZine just launched
Articles on Ballinrobe and all of County Mayo will appear for your interest
Memories - Christmas in Ballinrobe
Willie Hughes, Nellie Walsh and John McTigue; Shop windows
Mr. Tommy Graham to launch Community Archive Network which includes Ballinrobe's Community History
Ballinrobe's historicalballinrobe website is to be part of the Museum's Community Archive Network
New this week - Ballinrobe Heritage Walk
Heritage Week - Wednesday 26th August, 2015
Pat McGovern - Interview
Chairman Ballinrobe Musical Society
Red Shoes and no Clichés
Written by Ballinrobe Active Retirement Writer's Group
Rick Lewis, Artist
Sculptor of the John King Memorial at Cornmarket, Ballinrobe
Shrule Through a Lens
Interesting Facebook page on the village of Shrule
St Joseph's National School, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
Heritage in the Schools Project 2019 - Harry Clarke stained-glass windows, Ballinrobe
Sticks for the Reek
Sticks sold on Bridge Street.
The 'Christmas Box'
Colleen Assorted Sweets
The Confessions of Peadar Gibbons by Declan Varley
Another publication by Ballinrobe native Declan Varley
The Irish Community Archive Network
Ballinrobe's website now part of the National Museum of Ireland's portal site
The Mayo Crest
Details of Logo
The National Museum Needs Your Help
The National Museum of Ireland-Country Life in Castlebar, Co. Mayo is undertaking a collaborative heritage project with the Linenhall Arts Centre. May On Our Doorstep is a celebration of traditional May Day Customs in Ireland.
The Night of the Big Wind - January 5th, 1839
First published in: Vol. VIII of the South Mayo Family Research, 1995
The Winning Dish - delicious
c. 1970 Secondary School, competition, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
Time to enjoy that stretch in the evenings, fuel the saneness
Ballinrobe native Declan Varley recalls his memory of his Dad's and indeed hundreds of fishermen in this area, as they look forward to 'tight lines' in the coming months.
Useful Sources
Family Research
Video Clip - Mayo Champions
1936 All Ireland GAA Champions
Video clip of 2011 calendar
Get a glimpse of Ballinrobe
War in Mayo 1919-1924
Interview with Dominic Price by Marcus Howard of Easter Rising Stories
What is Heritage?
Do you have an interest in your Heritage? Check this video out
World War 1 - stories from home
BBC's World War One at Home project - Stories of what was happening in Mayo at the time, rather than stories from the frontlines or individual soldiers who went off to fight.