Category: Story
Tales from the country, family recollections, and folklore as it lives in the parishes today. Gathered carefully, sourced where possible, and offered in the spirit of seanchas — the lore a community keeps alive.
A Pint at Two O’Dowd’s: The Family Ordinary in Ballina
A small pub on Bury Street with our name on the door, John O’Dowd behind the bar, and
The O’Dubhda Challenge: Running a Thousand Years of Tireragh
On the first Sunday of October, runners in O’Dubhda-blue gathered on the Main Street of Enniscrone for a
On the Maps: how we became “O Dondey”
On two early-seventeenth-century maps of Ireland — Speed 1610 and Boazio 1606 — the O’Dubhda chief appears on
The Dog’s Battleflag
The wolfhound carved on a stone from Ardnaglass Castle was never meant as a clan emblem. Four hundred
Guardians of the Coast: The Story of Rathlee Signal Tower and Ireland’s Napoleonic ’10 Pound Castles’
Built against a feared French invasion, the squat coastal towers of the early 1800s — Ireland’s ‘ten pound
The O’Dubhdas in Science & Innovation: Stories of Impact Beyond the Surface
From Tom Dowd’s studio physics to climate-tech founders today, the descendants of an Irish chieftain line are quietly
