Áine, what's in a name?
Tommorrow is 21st June , Midsummer's day or Summer Solstice. It's my birthday, but also a day (or days) of celebration of another Áine...
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Áine Mc Garry/Trohanny cottage
- Apr 7
- 6 min
Instagram versus reality
I've been on a roller coaster journey of social media, life on the web and small business adventures over the last while
Áine Mc Garry/Trohanny cottage
- Feb 5
- 7 min
Lamenting Loughcrew
I have always had a love of old things. Photographs; people; buildings and Irish landscapes with stories attached. I had a fondness for...
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- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Last Straw
The loss of thatched roofs in Ireland over the past 20 years stands at 20-25 per cent,
a figure which is rising annually.
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 4 min
From Goddess to ghost
The murder of a young woman in County Offally last week has left the country in shock
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- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
The night of the Big Wind
It is 2021 and storm Barra has hit Ireland but in 1837 there was a storm so bad it destroyed the original house on The night of the Big Wind
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Henry and Winifred
This is an original photo in its original frame of my maternal great grandparents Henry and Winifred Hogan on their wedding day (Circa...
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- Mar 30, 2021
- 1 min
Somewhere under the rainbow
Caught this photo a couple of hours ago after the heaviest downpour of rain. I had run for shelter into the stable and then peeped my...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Life upon a black horse
'Black Beauty' by Anna Sewell was my favourite childhood book and probably still is today! By the age of 7/8 I could recite the whole...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Melancholy days
No guests at the cottage until the lockdown restrictions lift so it's home schooling and indoors as it's spilling rain all day and I'm...
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- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Waiting for the storm to pass
Ireland is into its 10th day of Covid19 level 5 restrictions which means a second lockdown for the entire country until 1st December....
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- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Oíche Samhain
Óiche Shamhna shona dúit.. Happy Halloween from all of us at Trohanny Cottage!! There's a lot i like about Halloween, not the modern...
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- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
Broken dreams
It's been an emotional rollercoaster with both of these boys. Jet had some setbacks with his jumping and I felt there was something not...
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- Jun 21, 2019
- 5 min
Past lives and family ties
The Easter Rising began Easter Monday 24th April 1916
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