by andrew | Mar 2, 2018 | Waterford History
I was so looking forward to an event scheduled to happen in Faithlegg graveyard this morning. However, like so many other plans across the nation it has fallen victim to the weather. The weather I’m referring to, for anyone living abroad, is a snowstorm which...
by andrew | Mar 3, 2017 | Irelands Maritime Heritage
Today marks the 6th successive commemoration of one of the most important events in modern Irish history. The 1848 Tricolour celebration marks the first raising of our national flag, at the Wolf Tone Club, 33 the Mall Waterford. The man responsible and who conceived...
by andrew | Jun 3, 2016 | Waterford History
Thomas Francis Meagher was born in 1823 in the building that is now the Granville Hotel on Waterford’s busy quays. The family spent some years at Ballycanvan, hence the family tomb at Faithlegg. Thomas got an expensive...
by andrew | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorised
I often had to correct visitors who believe that Thomas Francis Meagher’s body is interred in Faithlegg. Yet the family tomb is there, as are three other family plots, that I know of, around the world. But Thomas alas is in none of them. He’s the man...
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