Chrissy Knight-O’Connor
@chrissyknightoc
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Local Historian | co-author ‘Waterford Women of the Revolution 1914-23 & Up the Village’| History chats on WLRFM 🎙 |Student MA Gaelic Literature & Culture 🇮🇪
County Waterford Ireland
Joined September 2020
When Bridget Morrissey died in 1981 a rifle was found in her thatch roof with a note inscribed 'Thomas Keating, Comeragh, 1923' Thomas had handed it to Bridie CnamB for safe keeping before he was killed in 1923 she stayed true to her word & kept it safe for 60 years...P319
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Sad to see @IrishTimes backing the socially divisive 50 year mortgage as a response to housing crisis. Banks the only winner & social cohesion the loser. 🎵 ' Sold my soul to the company store' ! 🎵
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Just days before Christmas, FFFG and Inds are taking away a lifeline that so many people rely on, and now some will have to pay up to €50 a month to get their meds in blister packs. This hits older people, people in early stage dementia or Alzheimer’s, and people with
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Beautiful crisp December morning in Abbeyside 💛
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Excited to begin planning my master’s dissertation exploring the Déise in early Gaelic manuscripts, sagas, and dinnshenchas across the original Déise territory, covering what is now Waterford, south Tipperary, and parts of east Limerick 😍
The name #Déise or Déisi derived from the word ‘déis’, meaning‘vassal’, or in old Irish subject people. Originally they lived near Tara, they were famously exiled after a royal feud involving the High King Cormac Mac Airt. Forced to wander, one group of Déise crossed the sea and
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It is now day 15 in the search for Benjamin Spot which is taking place in Navan, Co. Meath. Rescue teams, civil defence teams and members of the public have been searching the navan and surrounding areas in hope to find Benjamin. Benjamin Spot (14) was last seen cycling from
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Please Share! Copies are now available for Christmas at Waterford County Museum 💝 all proceeds from sales go to supporting Waterford County Museum 🎄€25 Orders can be taken over the phone & posted to your home.
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that comes to Lismore look at that rock, because the print of Fionn’s five fingers are on that stone. People say that Fionn Mc Cumail was the strongest man that was ever in the world. Told by Mr J O’Brien, Swiss Cottage, Lismore, 1936 School Folklore Collection 3/3
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rock there and to give himself exercise he caught the stone, poised it on his little finger and threw it from Ballyin to where the Grove Gates in Lismore are now erected. Tis rock stand at a distances of about three miles from Ballyin. Every visitor 2/3 #Fionn
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Love to hear our #Waterford women who had been forgotten for a over a century are inspiring today’s authors & stories ❤️ Good luck @bridgetw1807 can’t wait to read more…
@chrissyknightoc A beautiful picture of Helvick @chrissyknightoc Doing some reading for my next historical novel. Thanks for this brilliant book!
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November sunset by the banks of Ringnaphuca (Pookas Headland), gazing towards #Dungarvan & Shandon. As a child, my grandmother’s cottage overlooked this “fairy field” & we were always terrified to go near it. 🌅✨ #Pooka #Placenames #Folkore
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Mahon Falls, Comeraghs – with my Gran, way back in the 90s. 18 years have passed, but never forgotten 🌷#Mahonfalls #throwbacktuesday
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Molly McGrath née Dee born 15th April 1906 in Kilgobnet was delivered by my x3 great Grandmother Ellen Whelan née O’Mahoney in 1903 and delivered most of the babies in Kilgobnet in the mid/late 19th century. Lovely article we found archived (Abbeyside archive) with a hand
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Mary Cleary – Awarded Military Pension at 81! #InternationalWomensDay2025 "I am the daughter of a Fenian who died of starvation owing to serving his country… so you can see that services rendered by my work [were] from the cradle to the grave." – Mary Cleary, 1936 At 81 years
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I love this photo of my great aunt Alice Young née Burke aged 18, Abbeyside circa 1925 with a young Declan Terry, #Ballinacourty. Beautiful fashion - boots and coat. Alice and her sisters looked after the Terry children when they sadly lost their mother at a young age. Alice
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🎃 Local Halloween Traditions Amlais Night in Kill & Bonmahon 👻 Long before trick-or-treating came to Ireland, Halloween in Kill and Bonmahon was marked by ‘Amlais Night’ a lively local custom to ward off menacing spirits. Local men would blacken their faces with ash, roam the
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The Ghost of Glencairn Abbey a 18th century woman who literally lost her heart🎃 #Halloween #Samhain #WaterfordFolklore #History #Dungarvanleader
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#Halloween #Samhain 👻🎃 I’ve got a spooky article in this week’s #Dungarvan Leader about the White Lady or Ghost of Glencairn – such a great tale! Thanks to Jo Bell for the invitation to write the piece. I also caught up with Gemma on WLR today to chat about the fabled
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#Halloween #Samhain 👻🎃 I’ve got a spooky article in this week’s #Dungarvan Leader about the White Lady or Ghost of Glencairn – such a great tale! Thanks to Jo Bell for the invitation to write the piece. I also caught up with Gemma on WLR today to chat about the fabled
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