Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

It was August 1985 and two boys from Darndale, Dublin, aged 10 and 13, hop on a DART train for a ride that will take them a few thousand miles beyond their stop. Keith and Noel were friends. They had a knack for bunking off. One day they hopped on a Dart and skipped out […]

#OTD in 1952 – An Aer Lingus aeroplane, the St Kevin, crashes in Wales with the loss of 23 lives. It is the airline’s second fatal crash.

10/01/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

A plane crash 69 years ago claimed the lives of 23 people, and remains the worst incident of its kind to take place in North Wales. The Aer Lingus C47 Dakota had been travelling from Northolt Aerodrome in London to Dublin on the night of 10 January 1952 when it crashed into Cwm Edno on the […]

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Frongoch Internment Camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War. Until 1916, it housed German prisoners of war in an abandoned distillery and crude huts, but in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, the German prisoners were moved and it was used as […]

Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1952 – An Aer Lingus aeroplane, the St Kevin, crashes in Wales with the loss of 23 lives. It is the airline’s second fatal crash.

10/01/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1952 – An Aer Lingus aeroplane, the St Kevin, crashes in Wales with the loss of 23 lives. It is the airline’s second fatal crash.

10/01/2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

A plane crash 68 years ago claimed the lives of 23 people, and remains the worst incident of its kind to take place in North Wales. The Aer Lingus C47 Dakota had been travelling from Northolt Aerodrome in London to Dublin on the night of 10 January 1952 when it crashed into Cwm Edno on the […]

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Don’t Go Far | The Young Boys from Dublin Who Ran Away to New York

13/09/2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

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