Bill Donohue’s Culture Watch on Newsmax
https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/billdonohue/id-163/ Dr. William Donohue is the president of and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. The publisher of the Catholic League journal, Catalyst, Bill is a former Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation and served for two decades on the board of directors […]
Maggie O’Donoghue Cloonan Named Grand Marshal of the 2018 Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade
http://www.pittsburghirish.org/parade/grandmarshal/Grand%20Marshal.htm Maggie O'Donoghue Cloonan Named Grand Marshal of the 2018 Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day Parade. Maggie was born in Tannavalla, Listowel, Kerry. Sent to me by Jim Horgan
Missing relatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries – newspapers.com
Timothy Donohue emailed me with The site Newspapers.com is filled with the old missing relative adds and although it has never served me I know from talking to people they have found it a good resource. Apparently this was an easy way for 18th century newspapers to get revenue from new immigrants with the hope of […]
From An Idea to A Good Idea
I emailed everyone on 5 April "I was driving back from a game of golf this morning and was listening to a radio programme on the Spanish flu epidemic in 1917. I had a thought! When I ask for journal articles they may seem like a lot of work to some, but if I […]
Spanish flu epidemic 1917
Shane Patrick O'Donoghue submitted "I recall my Irish family forebears saying how the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1917 had affected the venues of Sunday Mass attendances in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia In line with Government decree in this country at that time, gatherings of 20 or more people within a building were prohibited because of […]
Missing relatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries – Boston Pilot
Helen Frazier has sent this set of messages from the Boston Pilot of 6 July 1872 Her ancestors came from the Aran Isles off the coast of Galway and her gggrandfather was seaching for his two brothers. She adds that many people from Galway came to Portland, Maine.
Missing relatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries – notes in newspapers
Kim Cannon emailed me with "I was trawling through some online newspapers today to hopefully find some missing clues to illuminate the disappearance of some particular elusive relatives who have so far escaped every past line of enquiry – when I saw the following MISSING advertisement for a Donoghue. Perhaps it is just the clue […]
Zachary Donahue finishes just off the podium at the Winter Olympics
Zachary Donohue, a Madison native, and his ice dancing partner Madison Hubbell finished just off the podium Tuesday at the Pyeongchang Olympic Games. The pair came in fourth place with a score of 187.69, behind another American pair — siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani — who took the bronze with a score of 192.59. http://www.courant.com/sports/olympics/hc-sp-olympics-donohue-ice-dancing-20180219-story.html […]
Irish Ancestors web site
John Grenham's work is terrific https://www.johngrenham.com/. He has just launched maps showing RC baptisms for every parish where our name is involved. Go to https://www.johngrenham.com/findasurname.php?surname=O%27Donoghue and then click on the new tab on lefthand side under Maps
Kyle O’Donoghue, cameraman and adventurer, is treking to the South Pole
A father and son, Robert and Barney Swan, were treking to the South Pole using entirely renewable energy resources. Sadly father, Robert, had to return to base camp, but Barney is plugging on and with him is Kyle O'Donoghue, cameraman and adventurer. The Times 26 December 2017 Kyle O’Donoghue, team cameraman, has plied his trade […]