Bronze Age 'Missing Link' Discovered
An expert has confirmed that a stone circle on the southern side of the Gleann Cholm Cille valley most likely dates to the Bronze Age, ending a riddle that has puzzled archaeologists for decades...
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Making The News
In 1951, the new curate in Glencolmcille, Fr James McDyer arranged a meeting the parish council and Gaeltarra Eireann representatives, hoping to get a better deal for local weavers...
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Keep The Home Fires Burning
From Ballyshannon to Buncrana, fires will burn this weekend.
But not all of them will burn to welcome home victorious footballers and government ministers. this Sunday, 23 June, is Oiche Fheile Eoin, the Feast of St John, traditionally the longest day of the year, and in many rural areas of the country, bonfires are burned to mark the occasion.
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A Belated Obituary
Today (23 September 2004) marks a remarkable anniversary, the 1400th anniversary of a Donegal man ho wrote one of the world's first 'Geneva conventions', a law governing the conduct of armies in war.
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A Tale of Two Citizens
'Bill Graves, Republican of Oklahoma City, has introduced House Bill HB 1504 that would require an anti-evolution disclaimer on school textbooks.' - News item
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Country Matters
According to the Census figures, the combined population of Glencolmcille, Kilgoly and Malinbeg electoral areas on a Sunday last April is 1,498 people.
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Glen Henge
Advanced surveying techniques may show a complex of pre-historic structures beneath the earth in the heart of the historic valley of Glencolmcille, including the remains of a prehistoric henge which could rival the famous Beltany stone circle in size, a scientific expert has said.
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House of the Ancestors
Archaeologists nowadays talk about the House Of The Ancestors, project manager Seamus McGinley explains while outlining the survey work being done at the complex of stone age dolmens in Malinmore in the parish of Gleann Cholm Cille.
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In Praise of the Norsemen
A thousand years ago, a group of warriors set out by sea and land on a series of voyages that would change the world forever.
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It Ain't Necessarily So
As any schoolchild in Donegal can tell you, Colmcille died on Iona on the ninth of June, 597AD. But Dan McCarthy, a senior lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, says it ain't necessarily so.
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Once Was A Man
Jim came from Donegal. He was born in 1910 and so reached the age of sense just as the Irish Free State began to find its feet.
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One in Five
One in five men in Donegal are descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the Irish High King who according to legend brought St Patrick to Ireland as a slave, a genetic study has found.
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Secrets Beneath Our Feet
'I don't like the word Geofizz, please don't call it Geofizz,' archaeologist Kevin Barton tells me. 'Geophysics is what we are doing.'
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The Columbans
A conversation over a cup of coffee was the spark that led to a multi-year programme of archaeological surveys in the parish of Gleann Cholm Cille, a gathering at Oideas Gael heard during a presentation as part of Heritage Week last Thursday.
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The Girl Next Door
I grew up next door to a Goddess.
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The Left Hand of the Dolmen
So there we are in naíonán bheaga, small chubby hands holding pencils that feel unfamiliar, learning to make letters. Along comes the teacher, takes the pencil out of my left hand, places it in my right. I was five, what did I know? I went along with it. I didn't want to make a big deal of it.
[Read The Left Hand of the Dolmen].