An extraordinary horse racing story from 1923
In the April 2004 Society journal I told the story of Steve Donoghue (1884-1945) one of the most famous UK flat race jockeys of all time. But Frank Hayes’ story has to be the most bizarre ever. Let me clarify something. Even though I found the story on the Grand National Guide website, the race […]
Old Saorstat Eireann (Irish Free State 1922 to 1937) post box spotted
From Michael Fortune of Folklore.ie Spotted this yesterday – an old Saorstát Éireann post box. I pass it the whole time and said I’d better stop and get a snap of it. These Saorstát Éireann are rare these days and this one’s still in use. This one was made by WT Allen & Co., London […]
Onscreen Chemistry, written by John O’Donoghue, examines how Science and scientists are portrayed on the silver screen
In his new book, John O’Donoghue looks at how the image we have of chemists has changed over time and the myth and reality of the chemistry teacher turned evil drug supplier. John is from Mountcoal (St. Senan’s) originally. He attended Dromclough Primary School and St. Michael’s College, Listowel. He studied Chemistry at UCC and […]
Flying Stories Three – It’s amazing who you meet…
For three years in the early 80s I was on the Board of a New Zealand public company, based in Canterbury, that had operations in Australia. I had to go there every quarter. I tried every which way to try to make the journey manageable. On this occasion my chosen route was London to Anchorage […]
Mr Mike…Michael O’Donoghue of Saturday Nite Live fame available on streaming
Just saw a movie portraying my favorite O’Donoghue; Mr. Mike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Donoghue Dennis Perrin’s biography Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue was published in 1998 by Avon Books. The Barnes and Noble overview read, “This is the unvarnished story of a towering figure in American popular culture, the prime artistic force behind an entire generation […]
Tell me about the surname variations in your family – a wonderful case from Monaghan
Tell me about the surname variations in your family – a wonderful case from Monaghan There are many different spellings of the name in historic records and in current use. Since I started my research programme over 875 variants have been found see Name variants – Odonoghue . In most cases one expects that today’s variant […]
Montana Bill Would Jail Priests For 5 Years if They Refuse to Violate Seal of Confession. Bill Donohue, President of Catholic League rejects this Bill
https://www.infowars.com/posts/montana-bill-would-jail-priests-for-5-years-if-they-refuse-to-violate-seal-of-confession A pending bill in Montana threatens Catholic priests with five years in jail and thousands of dollars in fines unless they commit the excommunicable offense of violating the seal of confession. Senate Bill 139 would remove the mandatory reporter exemption for priests to report abuse. This would put priests in the position of either being […]
Flying Stories Two
I spent my working life bumming round the world in planes – you experience a lot in over 40 years I was flying up from Jakarta in Indonesia to Singapore on a Garuda Airlines plane – Garuda was not very well regarded at that time! The bloke in the seat next to me worked for […]
Flying Stories One – It was a dark and stormy night…
It was a dark and stormy night….. By Tim Donohue (Member 577 and retired airline pilot) of Chico, California, USA It was truly a dark and stormy night across the West Coast as I prepared for my final flight of the day, a San Francisco to Burbank journey. It was late, and we were hours […]
The O’Donoghue Society flying stories blog launched
Tim Donohue’s article in the January journal ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’ gave me the idea of a blog that we can all join in So Tim’s article is up on the Blog And I will post one to get us going