{"id":89381,"date":"2025-10-18T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:54:07","slug":"join-the-discussion-on-whether-ballyshannon-is-the-oldest-town-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89381\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the discussion on whether Ballyshannon is the oldest town in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion is to take place next month on whether or not Ballyshannon is the oldest town in Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>History Ireland editor Tommy Graham will be talking to Angela Byrne, author of the recently published Ballyshannon edition of the Royal Irish Academy Irish Historic Towns Atlas Series, will be in Ballyshannon next month.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/property\/1921995\/4-8-million-paid-out-by-council-in-vacant-property-refurbishment-grant-scheme.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac4.8 million paid out by Council in Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pauric Travers will join them for a fascinating conversation, carrying us all back to the earliest days of \u201cThe kindly spot, the friendly town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t ask us but come along to this year\u2019s Hedge School for a genuinely learned discussion,&#8221; the\u00a0Allingham Festival posted.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place on\u00a0Thursday, November 6, at 5pm at the\u00a0 Abbey Arts Centre and admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A discussion is to take place next month on whether or not Ballyshannon is the oldest town in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18054,1485,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-89381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ballyshannon","9":"tag-donegal","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}