Fireside Talks 2024 - A History of Castle Street with Sean McMichael

This talk was delivered as part of the 2024 Fireside Talks series, exploring the heritage themes focused on Ballycastle and the wider Causeway Coast and Glens. Sean McMichael was born and brought up on Quay Road, Ballycastle. After attending college in England, he began a career in IT and has been living in Dublin for the last 25 years. In 2010, after booking for the Titanic Memorial Cruise, Sean discovered that a Ballycastle man, James Blaney, had died on the ill-fated Titanic. No-one he spoke to seemed to be aware of this and it seemed there were no details available. Sean made it his mission to uncover James Blaney’s story. Two years later, in Titanic’s centenary year, his story was the cover story for The Glynns magazine, and Sean met James Blaney’s American relations in New York at the end of the Memorial Cruise. This was the beginning of Sean’s interest in genealogy and local history. For further information and to view the whole programme of talks, visit https://niarchive.org/projectitems/20...