Around this time of the year there are three things on the agenda, the Banagher Horse Fair, the annual Readings at the …
I can’t remember my first day at school in Saint Rynaghs in Banagher (of the famed Annual Horse Fair). So when folk …
For fun folk with sticks each other set to fight It was the fashion of the peasantry of the time The …
This story I first heard from a poem read by Rosemary Porter at Banaghers “Readings from the Pallet” festival some years back. …
Keeraun Hill is a fairy fort, or ring fort, or Danish fort, call it what you will outside Banagher in County Offaly …
This article first appeared in the 2014 edition of the “Banagher Review” Dad was a handyman in his spare time… handy to …
I managed not to get arrested at the Outlaw Horse Fair in the Wild West of Offaly… however it was a close …
Poetry in the Park is an initiative in the cultural life of Athlone running for the past year or so that I …
If we put the same resources to saving the hungry and the homeless as we do into one little bird, this would …
My family came to Banagher in 1977 from Ballinalee in North Longford (via Clones, Athlone, Daingean and Moate!) and I grew up …