Never t assume that they were passive downtrodden victims, dominated by their rough canal-worker husbands. 

Casey’s Public House located in the town of Newtown Forbes, population 900, is one such place. For many years, it has been both hardware sto

PART TWO of a series of blog posts capturing a memorable adventure in Ireland disguised as a book tour. A Knock on My Door During the...

I’d never heard of the Kesh (Keshcorran) Caves and, had I been travelling alone, I most likely would have driven straight past.

There‘s a little-known chapter in Canadian history of a conflict in 1830s Ottawa between newly-immigrated Irish and Acadian Lumbermen ….

All in all, the diary offers a very real, unfiltered glimpse into hard lives lived, the few words acting like simple sketches of life ….

It began with a strange, somewhat disturbing find as a tunnel was being dug through the city’s downtown core.

The M18 Ennis Bypass (County Claire, Ireland) was finally completed in 1999. This after ten years of debate as to where it should be built.

There are times when the draw for a taste of home is too great to resist. That, and the promise of a casual experience.

I’ve discovered such stories can offer great insight into the human condition, and to judge them as unreliable portals ….

My research had taken me to several established authors of canal history. Robert Leggett, whose book Rideau Waterway offered a comprehensive