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 […]

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 – 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 […]