Westmeath County Council
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Connaught Street, Athlone
Westmeath County Council Libraries and Heritage Office present a video presentation of Connaught Street Athlone: Featuring a short movie called Connaught Street by film maker John Shanagher in association with the Connaught Street Community Group. Featuring stories on famous Connaught Street Personalities and visitors; including Desmond Egan, Denis J Hannon, Hanna Greally, writer John Broderick, and choir master and teacher of Count John McCormack, Michael Kilkelly. Also featured are guests that stayed at the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, including Princess Grace of Monaco and boxer Joe Frazier.
Connaught Street Community Group: Author and local historian Gearoid O’Brien, Paddy Galvin, Marie Gren...
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Sand Martins - one of our summer visiting bird species
Просмотров 12721 день назад
This video was filmed in Summer 2023 and Spring 2024 as part of a project to raise awareness of Sand Martins and help support the population of Sand Martins . The project was funded under the Local Biodiversity action Fund from National Parks and Wildlife, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with support from Westmeath County Council. Filming was done under licence from NPWS.
N4 MULLINGAR TO LONGFORD (ROOSKY) - EMERGING PREFERRED ROUTE CORRIDOR
Просмотров 1492 месяца назад
PUBLIC CONSULATION EMERGING PREFERRED ROUTE CORRIDOR In-Person Events A series of in-person consultation events will take place in Longford, Mullingar and Edgeworthstown Tuesday 2nd July 2024 - 2pm to 8pm Longford Arms Hotel N39 FK26 Wednesday 3rd July 2024 - 2pm to 8pm Mullingar Park Hotel N91 A4EP Thursday 4th July 2024 - 2pm to 8pm Edgeworthstown Library N39 F7Y8 Virtual Consultation On Tues...
The 1798 Rebellion in Kilbeggan
Просмотров 1385 месяцев назад
Manus from Kilbeggan Library talks about the events of the 1798 Rebellion as they occurred in and around Kilbeggan. This is based on a talk Manus gave in the library in January 2024. To learn more about upcoming library events please visit www.westmeathculture.ie/library
Canal Avenue Regeneration Masterplan Fly-through Video
Просмотров 2566 месяцев назад
The video brings viewers on a 3-D journey through the proposed Canal Avenue Masterplan highlighting the development potential of the area.
Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) Information Video Feb 2024
Просмотров 967 месяцев назад
The Government has introduced a Residential Zoned Land Tax, a new tax aimed at increasing housing supply by activating zoned, serviced residential development lands (including mixed-use lands) for housing. Homes that are subject to the Local Property Tax are not liable for the Residential Zoned Land Tax.
Age Friendly Westmeath Sport Taster Event 2023
Просмотров 898 месяцев назад
Age Friendly Westmeath would like to express a massive thank you to all attendees of the Older Persons / Disability Recreational & Sports Expo Event held on Monday 11 December at Bloomfield House Hotel, Mullingar. Healthy Ireland and the Older Persons Council worked together to host this event. Older people and disabled individuals were presented with a variety of different sports and recreatio...
Battery Secrets Revealed
Просмотров 1219 месяцев назад
This film looks at the first phase of conservation works undertaken on The Number One Gun Battery, the last surviving example of the 8 Gun Batteries built in Athlone in the early 19th Century. Film was produced with funding from the Creative Ireland Programme, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, the Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The Night of the Big Wind
Просмотров 2199 месяцев назад
Librarian Manus Lenihan recently delivered a talk on the Night of the Big Wind - when a hurricane hit Kilbeggan on 6th January 1839. This is a recording of that talk.
Local Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries - The Mullingar Executions
Просмотров 9609 месяцев назад
Historian Jason McKevitt discusses the executions of Luke Burke and Michael Greally in 1923, looking in detail at the story surrounding the executions and the records and legacy of same. Filmed by Conor English with funding by Decade of Centenaries Programme Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media with support from Westmeath County Council.
Work, Live Westmeath: Mullingar E - Working Centre
Просмотров 449 месяцев назад
Work, Live Westmeath: Mullingar E - Working Centre
Local Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries
Просмотров 3429 месяцев назад
This film includes interviews with local historians in the Mullingar Area Seamus O’Brien, Ruth Illingworth and Jason McKevitt and discusses some of the events recently commemorated during the decade of centenaries (2012 - 2023). The film was made by Conor English and was funded under the Decade of Centenaries Programme, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media with suppo...
Loughanaskin Urban Regeneration Masterplan 2023
Просмотров 559 месяцев назад
A ‘fly-through’ video of the Loughanaskin Urban Regeneration Masterplan 2023
Marching Towards An Uncertain Future
Просмотров 1339 месяцев назад
This video explores the Story of the New Army as they took over the British Barracks such as Custume in Athlone , and how those early troubled years as the guerilla force was changing to a standing army to defend the New Republic, All those troubles, remembered by local people and Historians and Serving Officer, would go on to define the way the political establishment would see the Army even u...
Crayfish Plague Awareness and Biosecurity
Просмотров 309 месяцев назад
Crayfish Plague Awareness and Biosecurity Training session October 2023. This training looks at the severity of Crayfish Plague and how we can prevent its spread. The training was provided by Acquatic Ecologists Ros Macklin & Bill Brazier of Triturus Environmental Ltd. and was funded by the Local Biodiversity Action Fund, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Governm...
Who is Padraic Ganly?
Просмотров 25610 месяцев назад
Who is Padraic Ganly?
Mullingar Local Area Plan Public Consultation Phase 1
Просмотров 7210 месяцев назад
Mullingar Local Area Plan Public Consultation Phase 1
Crayfish Plague Awareness and Biosecurity
Просмотров 6510 месяцев назад
Crayfish Plague Awareness and Biosecurity
Tips for maintaining and conserving painted wrought iron gates
Просмотров 25710 месяцев назад
Tips for maintaining and conserving painted wrought iron gates
Tips for maintaining and conserving unpainted wrought iron gates
Просмотров 14510 месяцев назад
Tips for maintaining and conserving unpainted wrought iron gates
Cathaoirleach Awards 2023
Просмотров 7110 месяцев назад
Cathaoirleach Awards 2023
Discovering Wrought Iron Gates - Our Vernacular Heritage
Просмотров 97611 месяцев назад
Discovering Wrought Iron Gates - Our Vernacular Heritage
Conservation of Ground Nesting Birds
Просмотров 109Год назад
Conservation of Ground Nesting Birds
Healthy Westmeath Consultation Day Summary
Просмотров 26Год назад
Healthy Westmeath Consultation Day Summary
The mystery carving in Kilbeggan
Просмотров 181Год назад
The mystery carving in Kilbeggan
Laurence Ginnell centenary reflection, plaque unveiling and exhibition - Part 2
Просмотров 95Год назад
Laurence Ginnell centenary reflection, plaque unveiling and exhibition - Part 2
Laurence Ginnell centenary reflection, plaque unveiling and exhibition - Part 1: Plaque unveiling
Просмотров 169Год назад
Laurence Ginnell centenary reflection, plaque unveiling and exhibition - Part 1: Plaque unveiling
Residential Zoned Land Tax Supplemental Map
Просмотров 68Год назад
Residential Zoned Land Tax Supplemental Map
Westmeath Coin Hoards An Illustrated Talk by Michael Kenny (Retired curator, National Museum of IRL)
Просмотров 347Год назад
Westmeath Coin Hoards An Illustrated Talk by Michael Kenny (Retired curator, National Museum of IRL)
Sensory Play with Westmeath Libraries and Eleanor Glennon
Просмотров 232Год назад
Sensory Play with Westmeath Libraries and Eleanor Glennon

Комментарии

  • @JosephOConnell-l9k
    @JosephOConnell-l9k 12 дней назад

    who was the woman form ballydangan?

  • @bunyip5841
    @bunyip5841 12 дней назад

    Thank you for this account. It is important to retain these local histories.

  • @raymondmurphy9593
    @raymondmurphy9593 18 дней назад

    Very interesting. A look into the past. Thanks for posting.

  • @lexzoolia1
    @lexzoolia1 23 дня назад

    Oisin needs to pay Ratso immediately

  • @lillywildflower
    @lillywildflower Месяц назад

    Thank you for explaining the uprising in Westmeath. The focus of the 1798 rebellion usually doesn’t even make a reference to Westmeath even though it was significant. I’d love to watch more videos like this please. I had ancestors in killbeggan and killucan….actually I had ancestors from lots of locations in Westmeath including Flynns and McCormacks. Understanding what they experienced and how they lived is important, I want my children and grandchildren to know our history even though we were born in Australia. We still have our history in Ireland

  • @johnmcgrath6192
    @johnmcgrath6192 Месяц назад

    Great series, TY. Growing up in NYC I knew nothing of my parents' experience in Ireland during the Irish War of Indepedence and the Civil War. But I rembered certain brief statements - one that muy mother's house was burned down 3 times. In HS, at my father's wake, I learned he was active in the War of Independence. Later I learned his younger brother was a hero in that war and in the National Army. I also learned my mother was an old IRA messenger. I had no idea that my grandfather sent 13 tears in hard labor for resisting an eviction, befiore he went to the USA and returned with a nice sum of money. And so on more detail emerged. It not only was an ocean away but also it seemed centuries ago. In my 60s I had a conversation with an Irish student in New England. He was amazed that parents (not grandparents) were active in the War of Independence. I did look in my 40s rather than 60s.

  • @glennadamson9576
    @glennadamson9576 2 месяца назад

    My best wishes to the Tormey family, im the grand nephew of George Adamson, grandson of Joseph Adamson, second generation Irish in America, i am proud of my Irish heritage and glad my great uncle had friends such as the Tormey family, again Best wishes to you all.

  • @ajadrew
    @ajadrew 3 месяца назад

    Really interesting series of programs & as was said, 'The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there'

  • @MASTERTHATCHERS
    @MASTERTHATCHERS 4 месяца назад

    Thatched roofs which cost upwards of £24,000 and last less than 7 years might have something to do with why these buildings are losing their thatch & historically important Scraw Sod roof structures @ThatcherTaggart

  • @user-dg8du2ep4s
    @user-dg8du2ep4s 4 месяца назад

    Fascinating Story of True Bravery and Courage driven by an Intense desire and passion for freedom Godbless all those freedom fighters from all over Ireland I bow in your Honour ❤

  • @buy_large_mansions
    @buy_large_mansions 5 месяцев назад

    Insurance assessors today would probably put the damage to the castle around €6 trillion, inflation is a hell of a drug.

  • @seanohare5488
    @seanohare5488 5 месяцев назад

    Very interesting well done and said about athlone in Ireland fight for freedom led by legendary Longford leader Sean maceoin

  • @noelkiernan482
    @noelkiernan482 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for taking the time to research this part of out history. I found it very interesting. It is so important that we are aware of our history and the conditions that people were subjected to. I look forward to more lectures.

  • @LeeHoMusic
    @LeeHoMusic 5 месяцев назад

    as polish living in Ireland for last 17 years I can say Ireland is very like Poland..... thank you for sharing the video

  • @unodelossiete3850
    @unodelossiete3850 6 месяцев назад

    Ojala en algun sitio aqui en Argentina se encuentre lo que falta. Saludos, Fer Keena

  • @seanohare5488
    @seanohare5488 6 месяцев назад

    Well said by John Burke Roscommon played a stauch part in Irelands triumphant war of independence IRA leader Pat Madden of the successful IRA ambush is underrated

  • @JOHNNIE1916
    @JOHNNIE1916 6 месяцев назад

    Such opulence (resulting from barefaced theft) in the middle of such poverty should never have been allowed. Little wonder there was “trouble “.

    • @RyanCarabin
      @RyanCarabin 2 месяца назад

      What was stolen?

    • @JOHNNIE1916
      @JOHNNIE1916 2 месяца назад

      Ireland

    • @RyanCarabin
      @RyanCarabin 2 месяца назад

      @@JOHNNIE1916 You do realise this was filmed in the Republic, if so I am not quite following what you’re saying?

  • @j.p.w.murphy4354
    @j.p.w.murphy4354 6 месяцев назад

    Please get those criminal public servants to give back the €515,000 they embezzled & maybe this may become a reality. It's totally reprehensible what public service employees have done to their local community

  • @j.p.w.murphy4354
    @j.p.w.murphy4354 6 месяцев назад

    Please get those criminal public servants to give back the €515,000 they embezzled & maybe this may become a reality. It's totally reprehensible what public service employees have done to their local community

  • @Shelldrake489
    @Shelldrake489 6 месяцев назад

    One of Irelands greatest Son’s indeed,and Michael Collins had so much respect for MacEoin that he ordered a daring rescue attempt from the hell of Mountjoy prison,unfortunately it didn’t work out but the likes of Emmet Dalton and Joe Leonard were willing to walk into the lions den to try and get him out,and all of these men were portrayed as assassins and gangsters by the British media and government but in reality they were incredibly brave young men, our country will never see their likes again.

  • @windowman929
    @windowman929 6 месяцев назад

    British oppressors living it up at the indigenous Irish expense, what could go wrong...

  • @windowman929
    @windowman929 6 месяцев назад

    Dark foreigners demanding land from the indigenous Irish, what could possibly go wrong....

  • @tomgreene1843
    @tomgreene1843 7 месяцев назад

    Well done to Westmeath Co Council for these uploads.

  • @tomgreene1843
    @tomgreene1843 7 месяцев назад

    Una Byrne's grandfather (Bernie Gannon) , Legan Co Longford, born in Argentina played the accordion and some of his music is preserved in the ITMA. My father had obtained from him , as far as I know , a method of counting sheep used by farmers who had no formal education...it may have come from England via Argentina..It is different from other primitive English methods illustrated on utuibe and had a sort of rhythmic pulse.

  • @eddiestaunton514
    @eddiestaunton514 7 месяцев назад

    Castlebar, shes getting a Summons for something she didnt do

  • @dwansbo
    @dwansbo 8 месяцев назад

    An interesting addition to this incident has been passed down the generations of my family. The shots fired at the car being driven by the British officers were from behind a hedge bordering a farmstead belonging to the Wansboro family. The farm was located where the Jolly Mariner pub once stood, now apartments and a marina. The nearby football field is called Wansboro Field today. Neighbouring land belonged to the Ward family, it is unknown whether they were Involved in the incident. The Wansboro house was one of the houses burnt down by the Black and Tans, it was never rebuilt, the family which consisted of two bachelor brothers moved into the cow shed where they lived out their days until they passed away in the sixties. My grandfather, a third brother had married and moved away from Athlone some years previously, he died tragically in1916 as a result of a fall from a ladder while working in Waterford to support his young family. As there were no direct descendents the land in Athlone valued at £4000 was left to the church.

  • @tomgreene1843
    @tomgreene1843 8 месяцев назад

    Well done to Westmeath CC. Great work by Frank and the team ...met Frank , Dermot and Robbie but would not have been in their level of endeavour...though Robbie and Dermot did look after me on Scottish Winter week a good few years back.

  • @georgebrowne5935
    @georgebrowne5935 8 месяцев назад

    Cad a tharla Manchán??

  • @PaddyByrne931
    @PaddyByrne931 8 месяцев назад

    cxxts

  • @denishannan1408
    @denishannan1408 9 месяцев назад

    Excellent account

  • @andycaddell9680
    @andycaddell9680 9 месяцев назад

    Very interesting. You have honoured the memory of Luke Burke and Michael Greally.

  • @user-yu2ok8ek9u
    @user-yu2ok8ek9u 9 месяцев назад

    I would have voted for you if I could.

  • @okilfeathermusic
    @okilfeathermusic 10 месяцев назад

    This is an incredible story.

  • @Shakespearept
    @Shakespearept 10 месяцев назад

    Really interesting disease ecology

  • @norbertholstein2604
    @norbertholstein2604 11 месяцев назад

    I thought this was about Barlinnie.😂😂😂

  • @noelkiernan8583
    @noelkiernan8583 Год назад

    very good

  • @ernagrygova4100
    @ernagrygova4100 Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @odettehokemeir4425
    @odettehokemeir4425 Год назад

    Very informative video!

  • @dermotcole3881
    @dermotcole3881 Год назад

    Very interesting local history very well written

  • @williambarkho
    @williambarkho Год назад

    this music makes me kinda sad but at the same time it makes me happy. rip to the pioneers especially mallory and irvine 🙏🏼

  • @cosmicman621
    @cosmicman621 Год назад

    My Da’s hometown.Slainte for the post.

  • @williambarkho
    @williambarkho Год назад

    this video and the music is such a beautiful visual. rip to all the pioneer british explorers of mt everest

  • @Robbie7441
    @Robbie7441 Год назад

    Idiots for burning down the houses .

    • @seanohare5488
      @seanohare5488 10 месяцев назад

      Disagrees strategic in the military sense political in the reset sense and cultural in no longer being treated as second class citizens so to me poetic justice

  • @TamikaRaye
    @TamikaRaye Год назад

    Wonderful

  • @rosemangiroza
    @rosemangiroza Год назад

    this is good, wish you could share the words so our children can read too

  • @EileenShields-tz9vo
    @EileenShields-tz9vo Год назад

    What will it be used for?

  • @johndervilla
    @johndervilla Год назад

    Excellent mini doc. Thank you from his grand nephew.

  • @Mftw767
    @Mftw767 Год назад

    Greetings Mullingar from limerick

  • @blazerk.7189
    @blazerk.7189 Год назад

    Good work Marika. Eileen's brothers grandson here in NZ.. wonderful woman.. Very proud of her.