Qualla: Ballaghaderreen https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballaghaderreen https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen Ballaghaderreen: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0. Until 1899, Ballaghaderreen was in County Mayo. Then the boundary commissioners redrew the map and shifted the town across the line into County Roscommon, where it has sat ever since - though its Gaelic Athletic Association club still plays for Mayo, an administrative anomaly that nobody local has felt much pressure to resolve. The name itself, Bealach an Doirin, is older still: the road of the little oak grove, named for a coach-road through woodland that has long since been felled. In March 2017, the town did something that put it briefly into the national news in a different register: it became an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre for hundreds of refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War, and a year later, the community was honoured with a People of the Year Award for how it welcomed them.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/gc9f-ballaghaderreen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballaghaderreen: The Road, the Cathedral, the County Line https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ballaghaderreen sits in the north-west of County Roscommon, near the borders with Mayo and Sligo, just off the modern N5. In the early 19th century it lay on the new mail coach road from Ballina to Longford, the position that gave the town its commercial importance through the Vi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/gc9f-ballaghaderreen-the-road-the-cathedral-the-county-line.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballaghaderreen: The Dillon Family https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Ballaghaderreen's most famous family was the Dillons. John Blake Dillon was a writer, politician, and one of the founding members of the Young Ireland movement, the romantic nationalist current of the 1840s that briefly attempted insurrection and gave Irish nationalism much of it...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/gc9f-ballaghaderreen-the-dillon-family.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballaghaderreen: Spring 2017 https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. El Comandante assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. In March 2017, Ballaghaderreen took on a new role almost overnight. The Irish government opened an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre in the town to accommodate hundreds of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, families and individuals who had been admitted to Ireland under...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/gc9f-ballaghaderreen-spring-2017.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballaghaderreen: A Cathedral Town's Cultural Roll https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Garry Hynes, from Ballaghaderreen, became the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - a landmark in American theatre and a milestone for Irish stage direction internationally. Matt Molloy, the Irish flute player whose recordings have shaped how generations ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/f/ballaghaderreen-wp/gc9f-ballaghaderreen-a-cathedral-towns-cultural-roll.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballaghaderreen: Off the N5 https://qualla.com/ballaghaderreen/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ballaghaderreen was previously on the main N5 national primary road linking Longford to Westport, but in September 2014 the road was re-routed to bypass the town to the north. The bypass changed daily life - quieter streets, less through-traffic, fewer overnight stops for long-di...

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