Éamon Ó Caoineachan

3 days ago | donegallive.ie | Éamon Ó Caoineachan

While spring clocks turned forward at the end of March, the historical community in south Donegal has returned back in time with the recent launch of a new interactive Facebook forum, Where Erne, Drowes and Duff meet the Sea.

1 month ago | irishcentral.com | Éamon Ó Caoineachan

“Throwback your shoulders – to rowback your boat ...” David Hall McKewan’s watercolour painting of Bundoran (1855) is not only an historic throwback into Irish history, but it is also an artistic rowback showing the visual poetry of two fishermen fiercely throwing back their shoulders and rowing back in their boats through the mighty coastal waves towards their seaside home of Bundoran.

2 months ago | donegallive.ie | Éamon Ó Caoineachan

Dún na nGall “the Fort of the Foreigners”– historically named after Viking invaders, but the word “Foreigners” could have inherited a terrifying modern meaning if the Nazis invaded Donegal during Operation Green in World War II. Please click on the arrows to go through the photographs and the rest of the story Operation Green was the Nazi military operations plan to invade Ireland and Britain in 1940-1941.

2 months ago | independent.ie | Éamon Ó Caoineachan

Did Hitler have spies in Sligo gathering information for possible ‘Operation Green’ invasion? Did Adolf Hitler have spies in Sligo who took photographs and made maps to be useful in the event of the invasion of Ireland going ahead? Quite possibly, as the Nazis seemed very interested in the Sligo coast as a possible landing locationDid Hitler have plans to invade Ireland by landing the German army in Sligo? Sligo’s poet W. B.

2 months ago | impartialreporter.com | Éamon Ó Caoineachan

Enniskillenstein or Enniskillenberg? Enniskillen could have been renamed after the common German town suffixes ‘stein’ (stone) or ‘berg’ (mountain) if the Nazis successfully invaded Fermanagh during Operation Green (1940-1941) in World War Two. Operation Green was the Nazi military operations’ plan to invade Ireland and Britain. However shocking to imagine – Hitler had Enniskillen in his crosshairs.