Articles

Urbanity and Rurality – The Bord na Móna Villages of Frank Gibney

FERGAL MAC CABE, ARCIDTECT AND TOWN PLANNER Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 60, December 2006, p50-52. So far as is known Frank Gibney had no formal planning or architectural training, although there is a suggestion that he started his career as an engineer in Dublin's Balbriggan. Later in his life he became an associate member of...

Tags: Environment, Community, Scéal na Móna, 1950s

The Great Day on the Bog – La na Móna

Taken from Catholic Bulletin, Vol. 24, May 1934, p424-427 THE great plain, stretching westwards some thirty miles from Dublin is probably the district of all Ireland least known to city folk. Dublin men, who will discuss familiarly with you such places as Rosslare or Mullingar, are puzzled at the mention of Clane, Allenwood or Timahoe. So...

Tags: Culture, External Publications, Community, 1930s

Snapshots From Russia – 1956

Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 49, December 2003, p12-14. The second visit to Russia by a Bord na Móna delegation came about because the Russian Ambassador of the time, a Mr Maisky, had suggested that there should be an exchange of visits between representatives of the turf industries of both countries. It had been agreed after the...

Tags: Culture, Scéal na Móna, 1950s

Looking back 50 Years – Some Memories of Boora

Dr Finbar Callanan former Bord na Mona Chief Civil Engineer Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 60, December 2006, p39-43. I joined Bord na Móna on the 1st of June 1956. Prior to joining the Board I was engaged on the design of the new jetties and harbour facilities for the port of Waterford which had a sizeable expansion programme under...

Tags: Work, Development, 1970s, Innovation, 1960s, Scéal na Móna, 1950s

Clonsast From Memory – In the Early Days of the Turf Development Board Ltd.

JOHN KEARNS, FORMER CLONSAST CHIEF CLERK Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 37, July 2001, p20-23. Since Clonsast seems to have now been abandoned as a Bord na Móna entity, for the benefit of modern readers it is perhaps necessary therefore to state that it was situated about 41/2 miles from Portarlington en-route to Walsh Island in...

Tags: Work, Scéal na Móna, 1940s

Charles Hodgson’s Briquette Factory Derrylea 1860-1867

T.A. Barry Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 1, no. 23, Nov/Dec 1975, p5 The flood-plain of the Rivers Cushina and Figile, tributaries of the Barrow and only three to four miles from Monasterevin as the crow flies, is a remote and lonely countryside, even to-day. In the spring of 1975, only a few scattered stones and a suggestion of long wall...

Tags: Development, Innovation, Scéal na Móna, Pre-1930s

Bord na Móna’s Clean Air Business – A Progress Report

Ian Phillips, Section Manager Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 64, December 2007, p40-41. A review of Environmental complaints to regulatory bodies, Environmental Protection Agencies and Local Authorities will quickly reveal that odour complaints are the most prominent. The Bord na Móna "Clean Air" Business unit has its headquarters in...

Tags: Environment, 2000s, 1990s, Innovation, Scéal na Móna

Bord na Móna Agus B&Q

LE DR MUNOO PRASAD, PRIOMH EOLAITHEOIR AGUS DEARBHAIL Ni CHUALAIN, EOLAITHEOIR Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 44, November 2002, p25. Tá caidrimh gnó idir Bord na Móna Horticulture le B&Q le seacht mbliana anuas, agus an gnó ag fás gach bliain. Bhunaigh Block agus Quail B&Q i 1969. Tá B&Q mar phairt don Kingfisher Group chomh...

Tags: 2000s, 1990s, Innovation, Scéal na Móna

Bog Bodies – Kingship and Sacrifice

BY EAMON P KELLY, KEEPER OF IRISH ANTIQUITIES, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND Taken from Sceal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 44, November 2002, p25. At the end of the last Ice Age melt water from retreating ice sheets left the Central Plain of Ireland strewn with shallow lakes that in time developed into large expanses of raised bog. Following the removal...

Tags: Environment, Culture, Scéal na Móna, The Ancient Past

A Unique Bord na Móna Presentation in Ballina

From Scéal na Móna, Vol. 13, No 51, June, 2004, p30-34 Back in 1992 the Bord na Móna Gaelic Football Inter-Works Championship Final took place at Lanesboro' for the very last time. That was a tough struggle between Mountdillon and Oweninny, perhaps memorable for the physical body clashes that occasionally occurred between the participants....

Tags: 2000s, 1990s, 1960s, Community, Scéal na Móna, 1950s