I’ve found a ref to it as 1641 on Ros Davies site, they are referencing TMUOP too so Peter Carr has both Thomas O’Gilmores murdered in the same place 200 years apart 🤭 I think it is the same person and will stick with my hunch

But now I can’t find any of this online and am beginning to think I imagined it all! Lol!

Dundonald, soldiers couldn’t be bothered to take home where he was supposed to go and he was murdered between’kirkdonnel and Hollywood’ I think the family killed name was ‘
o’Gilmore which made me think it might be an oral tradition of the same story - or a really unlucky family

That was my starting point too, but I think it might be a bastardisation of an event from 1642. I found a witness statement in the 1641 transcripts online but I can’t seem to access it anymore. A catholic family was wiped out in craigantlet, the last one alive was being taken to the garrison at

Does she suggest a reason for the name in the book? I have a theory…

She is fascinating! She’s making a brief appearance in our community-led exhibition in Carrick museum in November.

Exactly! And throw in a bit of car ownership promotion and ‘Protestant state for a Protestant people’ thinking and we ended up embedding inequality in all sorts of ways

I’ve been doing some reading about this lately and I’m not sure the Mathew plan wasn’t the root of all the urban planning problems of the last 50 years 🫣

Sounds great Robyn, let us know when it’s going out.

This is brilliant! Going to share some of these bits of wisdom with my teen who has been hard on himself lately because of stammering.

Think that was a great part of it! Tá tart an domhain orm!

This is awful. 😩