Faces of Ballycastle
15th March 2019
University in Queen’s “One of the nuns put me in for a scholarship for Antrim, County Antrim. And I won it, and that’s how I got […]
15th March 2019
Boxing Champ! “When I was 5, we used to go in Friday nights, it keeps you fit and you learn self defence so you don’t get […]
15th March 2019
A Lively Episode in Murlough “One evening my older brother was out on the motorbike and he seen a ship out in the ocean […] [later] […]
15th March 2019
The Market Yard “I worked in the Market Yard to John Patrick, before I started my own business […] Beans used to come in from Rathlin […]
15th March 2019
Rathlin Writing Festival “No matter who would come to this festival […], there was two things that had to happen. One, it had to be somewhere, […]
15th March 2019
Musicians in Town “And then of course you get the visiting characters, you had Johnny Crabtoes and you had, eh, Old McAfee the Fiddler […] and […]
15th March 2019
Getting Serious about Painting “So, then of course, after I left Ballycastle Homecare we decided, right, now is the opportunity, the boys are grown up […] […]
15th March 2019
A local called Harry Diamond “Apparently there had been a storm and the roof had blown in while [Harry] was lying in bed, and Jack said, […]
15th March 2019
Ballycastle Museum “I had to compile a list of all the buildings in Castle Street […]and then Gary read it, and he came to this one […]
15th March 2019
Reminders of Ballycastle by Post “One thing I did, every exile does, is lap up everything with the name Ballycastle on it. Uncle Jim used to […]
15th March 2019
Saturday Morning at the Pictures “We’d get maybe 5p or a shilling, maybe it wasn’t a shilling, it was thruppence or something, but me and Ronan, […]
15th March 2019
Visiting Nuns “I remember coming in to the house one, one summers day […] there were visitors […] two nuns sitting in the house. They spoke […]