The Dromore Linen Festival is taking place between 18 and 24 September 2025.
A week long festival in connection with the former linen industry, this includes McConville’s Mill Open Day (Sat 20 Sept).
Hourly tours will guide visitors through the processes of retting, breaking, scutching, and heckling. A free shuttle bus will run between the mill and the town square.
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the restoration of an in situ ‘isolation pillar’ which was part of the tram network in Belfast. These allowed engineers to isolate part of the network for maintenance whilst keeping the rest of the network running.
The box is located on Linenhall Street and has both the city coat of arms and “BTH” for “British Thompson Houston”, cast into it.
Culture Night takes place on September 19 2025. I have compiled a list of Culture Night events of an IH nature:
BELFAST
Past, Present & Future of Belfast Public Transport
CORK
Rising Sons Brewery: Brewery Tour
DUBLIN
Dublin Docklands: An Exhibition of Photographs
Step back in time in The Liberties – Iveagh Trust Tour
KILDARE
Culture Night at The Steam Museum and Lodge Park Walled Garden
WEXFORD
The Irish Examiner has an article about the memorial reputed to be the grave of Samuel Grubb, a Quaker of Castlegrace, Co. Tipperary, which is in the form of a beehive.
The Grubbs were active in milling, Castlegrace Mill being their business. The mill building and mill house remain – I was part of a Mills and Millers of Ireland visit to the complex in 2022, arranged courtesy of its current owners.
I haven’t made it to this monument yet – now that I have the bulk of what is necessary for the railway network of Ireland done, I will be moving onto other additions to the Gazetteer and memorials will be part of this.
In the interim, the image below is of the monument, photo from Geograph.ie – copyright Hywel Williams and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence:
The former Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway station building in Dundalk is for sale.
The Dublin Festival of History 2025 takes place between 26th September and 11th October 2025. I have reviewed the listing of events and created a page listing those events that are of an IH interest.
There exist service providers that provide access to the records maintained by the Companies Registration Office for a fee (that this data is not available free to the end user is a disgrace, but not surprising in this kakistocracy).
I came upon this entry on the record for Irish Rail:
From my limited legal knowledge, I understand that the Plantiff is the person/entity initiating legal action (the person/entity on the receiving end of a legal action is the defendant).
Northern Ireland Heritage Open Days is taking place on 13th and 14th September 2025 (some events on Friday 12th).
I have created a listing of events of an IH nature.
The above titled play, described as “a show featuring music, singing and theatrical performances telling the story of miners’ lives in the coal mines of the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary” is taking place on 29th August 2025 in The Horse and Jockey Hotel’s Derrynaflan Theatre.
Further details, including how to buy tickets, can be found here.
The latest railway station in Ireland has opened. Woodbrook Station on the DART line, between Bray and Shankill, opened on 10th August 2025.
I managed to get out there on the opening day and also nabbed a free ice cream cone (courtesy of Irish Rail or the developer of the adjacent residential development, I don’t know).
I also spotted Irish Rail’s Barry Kenny and CEO Jim Meade in conversation on the concourse outside the station. I did think of saying hello, but I don’t think either gentleman would have wanted their Sunday ruined by having one of their biggest critics identify himself.