Donegal Annual 2026

Denis by Rockwell Kent. State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection, Utah Arts & Museums.

PageTitleAuthor
1Twenty years a-growing – Seán Beattie moves onMartin McGinley
4CDHS Officers and Executive Committee 2025-26
5The foundation and development of the monastery of RaphoeBrian Lacey
17Donegal 1934: Monk Gibbon’s ‘The Seals’Professor Frank Shovlin
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Inistrahull — a base for hunter-gatherers exploring Donegal 10,000 years ago?Brian McNaught
31Matt Armour and the Red Dahlia of Glenveagh CastleBelinda Mahaffy
39Ballyshannon in 1737: a soldier’s viewFrank Hayes
45Scenes from the Famine in Donegal — ‘Ar An Tráigh Fhoilimh’ agus Rann na Feirste’Seán Boner
51From South America to Stranorlar — the story of a ‘trade token’Martin McGonigle
57O Baoighill’s ‘Lucht Tighe’ on Dawros Head peninsulaTomás G. O Canann
76Society Field Days in 2025
77
The Horse, the Garron and the People of the Garron Bán, BarnesmoreHelen Meehan
83
The Síol Maolagáin of Tir Mac Carthainn — A Journey Through Lost HistoryAlan Milliken
91Kilcar: Insights from the 1911 CensusParaic Lavelle
98Launch of 2025 Donegal Annual
99Isaac Butt: Father of Home RuleSeán Beattie
103
Tenants in All Saints and Taughboyne parishes, Donegal, 1800James G. Ryan

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Pádraig Ó Muirí (1865-1959), Uachtarán Ginearálta Ord an tSlánaitheora, a óigeMaitiú Ó Murchú

114
Notices Field Days July-September 2026

115
Jakob Heinrich Schmick’s Account of West Donegal in 1853Translated by Prof. Joachim Fischer

129
Not only foxes and grouse, but tigers and even elephants: the sporting exploits of Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, of Drumboe Castle, StranorlarRev. Raymond Blair

134
History comes alive at new Lifford Museum
136
Boundary Commission centenary in the spotlight

138
Some highlights
139Book Reviews
146Donegal Bibliography, 2025-6
Compiled by Una Mathewson

BOOK REVIEWS

PAGEBOOK’S AUTHORBOOK TITLEREVIEWER
139Angela ByrneFinding Mary, The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844Dr Seán Beattie

140
Pádraig Ó BaoighillScribheorí, Filí and Ceoltóirl as Gaeltacht Láir Thir ChonaillPádraig
Ó Dochartaigh

141
Anthony BegleyTwo Ballyshannon Pioneers in American HistoryDr Seán Beattie

142
Seán BeattieFamous Folk from County DonegalPat McArt

143
Brian Leavy (ed.)Cahir Healy 1877- 1970: Irish Patriot and Man of Letters Dr Seán Beattie
144Cathal PóirtéirAn Tiarna George Hill agus Pobal Ghaoth DobhairCiarán O Pronntaigh
145Liam CanningGertrude Canning : A Wren for 99 DaysMartin McGinley