CULTURE NIGHT 2019 So, Culture Night is upon us again! For 14 years this wonderful event has been growing and growing in strength, artists, musicians, storytellers and more come together across Ireland to host free events to remind us all how utterly brilliant it is...

HOW THE FAMINE IMPACTED GOREY & NORTH WEXFORD I had the great honour this week of meeting a woman who came thousands of miles to retrace the path her ancestors took when they left Gorey for America in 1850. Her families name was Breen and Casey, and many Breens...

JONATHAN SWIFT’S #STAYCATION IN GOREY! Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist, and author of Gulliver’s Travels spent his time split between homes in London and Dublin. Cities in the 1700s were, to be quite frank, pretty disgusting places. Public hangings, the bodies left to...

TORTURE IN THE MARKET HOUSE!During 1798 there were many characters that have gone down in local Folklore to be remembered for their dark and dasterdly deeds, but non more so than the Hangman Hempenstall and Tom the Devil! The Hangman Hempenstall was so called as he...