Four new visitor centres go on air in the USA
Stephanie Abrams featured four new Martello designed projects in her New York-based ‘Travel with Stephanie Abrams’ TV and radio shows. Touring Ireland in March, Stephanie found time to check out …
Ormond Castle: A real life Game of Thrones
John McMahon, Commissioner of the OPW, opened the new exhibition in Ormond Castle in Carrick-on-Suir. Ormond Castle is the greatest surviving great Tudor mansion in Ireland. Interpretation on-site includes tour …
Remarkable Irish lace-making traditions hang by a thread
Minister Heather Humphries opened ‘Linked by A Thread’ in the Canal Stores building in Clones, Co. Monaghan. The event was attended by some of the extraordinary women who have maintained …
Marconi family receive a royal welcome in the Kingdom
Mark Leslie chauffeured the radio inventor’s family on a whistle-stop tour around Ireland in March. The Marconis were rapturously welcomed in Ballybunion, site of the first transatlantic voice broadcast in …
Sir David Niven and the Monaghan Spitfire
The delightfully named Air Vice Marshall Sir David Niven represented the Royal Airforce at the opening of the Monaghan County Museum’s exhibition on aircraft downed over the border in WWII. …