The Irish language, religious knowledge, The Pattern, Ardmore GAA club.
Growing up in Ardmore in the 1930’s. Stories about schooldays, churches and big houses.
Teaching, health services, farming, food, animals and work.
History of the Odell family, the Bagge family and Ardo House.
Rural electrification, Ardmore water scheme, the ‘Eucharistic Congress’, the I.C.A., transport and town twinning.
In Ardmore, Sínn Feín courts were held at various venues. One of the judges was Tom Foley, Ballylane. The ruins at the top of Bóthar na Trínse, from where Micheál Ó Foghlús family had been evicted years before was one venue. The premises were used at a later stage, as a band room and when Pierry Foley and a companion went in one night to light the fire, a strange woman was seated there; she got up and went down to the nearby room and just disappeared. Another venue for the courts was the barn behind the present Youth Hostel. There Jamesy Quain was charged with attacking Jim Drohan and having a row in the boat; he was fined 14/- which he refused to pay.
Ardmore is a small seaside village in West Waterford on the south coast of Ireland with a history going back to the 5th century.
