Jean Vanier – L’Arche and the Kilkenny Connection
Nicholas Maher (2019) Recently I was saddened to hear the news of the death of Jean Vanier, a man known worldwide as the founder of the L’Arche Communities for adults […]
Father Patrick Delahunty
Paddy Neary Patrick Delahunty was born to James and Ellen Delahunty of Curraghmartin, Aglish, Mooncoin in September 1880. After primary education in the local school, he indicated a wish for […]
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Paddy Neary When Edmund Rice was born in West Court, Callan, Co. Kilkenny on June 1st 1762, the Penal Laws, which had caused so much suffering in Ireland since 1695, were […]
James Hoban – Architect of the White House Washington
Eamonn Kiely If you go out the Callan road from Kilkenny and turn right at Ballymack Cross, about a kilometre from there you will find a modern memorial in glass […]
Amhlaoibh Ó Suilleabhain or Humphrey O’Sullivan diarist
Eamonn Kiely This Callan man is seen as something of the Samuel Pepys of Ireland and the Irish language. While born in Killarney, he came to Kilkenny at nine years […]
Cromwell in Callan
Cromwell In Callan Peter McQuillan When Oliver Cromwell came to Callan in 1650 the town was quite a large place, as Joe Kennedy, Hon. Secretary of Callan Heritage, points out […]
James Hoban – Architect of Callen, Co. Kilkenny
James Hoban Ken Kinsella James Hoban was born in a thatched cottage on the estate of the Earl of Desart at Cuffesgrange near Callan in 1758. He was the son […]