Celebrating 75 years 1947-2022
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This issue is dedicated to the founder members
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“I may say that this Society, with its associated Journal and proposed Repository, bids fair to fulfil a hope I have entertained for a long while.”
Andrew Lowry, President, Foreword, Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society, November 1947.
Front cover – Blown Sand , 1797 (From William Hamilton “Memoir of the Climate of Ireland”, in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1797, Vol. 6, pp 27-55 by permission of the Royal Irish Academy).
| Description | Author | Page |
| The Garda Síochána in Donegal (1922-1923) | Seán Beattie | 4 |
| Night of Terror in Mountcharles | Helen Meehan | 19 |
| The Border in Finnegans Wake: ‘the sanguine boundary limit’ | Donal Manning | 23 |
| In Search of Fahan Mura | L. S. McLaughlin | 29 |
| Richard Hayward’s Donegal Connection | Paul Clements | 39 |
| Painting Life in the Rosses: W. H. Bartlett (1856-1932) | Raymond Blair | 45 |
| Bundoran Golf Club: Unique Sporting Inscription | Anthony Begley | 49 |
| Dún nanGall: “Fort of the Foreigners”? Archaeological Evidence for Viking Activity in Medieval Donegal | Megan McAuley | 54 |
| The Burt Reclamation Scheme | Liam Campbell | 64 |
| Girls’ Secondary Schools in Londonderry after 1845 | Robert Montgomery | 72 |
| Culdaff Letter, 1777 | George Mills | 76 |
| The Extraction of lodine from Seaweed in Ramelton, Co. Donegal | Peter E. Childs | 78 |
| A Donegal-born Covenanter Minister in South Carolina: Rev. Thomas Donnelly | William Roulston | 91 |
| The Earliest Books by Donegal Authors | Brian Lacey | 94 |
| John Hamilton, Brownhall: Tenants of the Ballydermot Estate 1821-1857 | Sam Hanna | 100 |
| Aonach Thir Chonaill: Aonach Gaeilge | Nollaig Mac Congáil | 111 |
| Edmund Brian Doherty Plaque, Cruit Island | Shannon McGaffin | 121 |
| Extraordinary Landlordism in Western Donegal: Valentine Ryan – Landlord, Iniskeel | Tom Plunkett | 124 |
| Dunaire Finn agus Dún na nGall | Duane Long | 129 |
| The Emergence of Muintir Chanannáin in Early Medieval Donegal | Tomás G. O Canann | 134 |
| Book Reviews | 148 | |
| Donegal Bibliography 2021-22 | Una Mathewson | 154 |
| Notices | 163 |
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