Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Funny Nativity: Sing Like No One Is Listening!

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This video has been posted on the Blog before but it is so good it deserves to be posted again.  I hope your Christmas will be filled wit...
Tuesday, 11 December 2018

CHRISTMAS EVE 1951

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If this lovely picture doesn't warm the cockles of your heart this Christmas Season, then I don't know what will.  Doreen Walsh Nos...
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Saturday, 8 December 2018

CHRISTMAS DINNER 2018

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A couple of days ago I received an email and photo from Joan Reynolds Fogarty.  Joan keeps me up to date on her most amazing school friends...
Monday, 26 November 2018

CHRISTMAS GIFT LIST

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As we have seen from previous posts, former St Patrick's Convent School pupils have many talents.  In this post we are proud to highlig...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

COVE LANE, CORK, 1775

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It began in a cottage in Cove Lane, Cork. Here, on Christmas Eve 1775, Nano Nagle founded the Sisters of Charitable Instruction of the Sac...
Thursday, 15 November 2018

THE PRESENTATION LINK

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Before we close the book on the centenary of the Armistice, there is one more story I think worth telling.  It is worth the telling becaus...
Sunday, 11 November 2018

THE 11th HOUR OF THE 11th DAY OF THE 11th MONTH

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One hundred years ago today the guns fell silent.  The "war to end all wars" , the war that had begun in August 1914, the war tha...
Saturday, 10 November 2018

"A MULTICULTURAL WAR"

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On Armistice Day 2017, John and I had the privilege of being in Ypres, Belgium and being among the crowds thronging the Menin Gate for the ...
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Friday, 9 November 2018

GEORGE FRANCIS JOHNSON

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This year being the centenary of the closing of WWI, all thoughts are focused  on that awful war.  It is absolutely right that we should r...
Wednesday, 7 November 2018

The Fighting Vaughan Brothers

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The story of the Vaughan brothers is one that I know well because it was told and retold in our house when I was growing up. My mother...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2018

A YOUNG " BLUE PUTTEE"

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I trust I am not overdoing it with the military posts here?  This is the third such post.  (As my late mother-in-law would probably say ...
Monday, 5 November 2018

2740, PTE ANDREW SHAW

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Andrew Shaw was born in Little Heart’s Ease on 30 th  September 1893.  He was the second son of Thomas and Margaret (Walsh) Shaw. On 12 th ...