Category: Guest Item
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Dining Belle Fey
Guest item written by Sean Carney – March 2018 This is the first guest item I have included in my blog and I present to my readers for its interest value, and in the hope it will encourage others to send in their stories. Browsing through Donegal Town’s official website recently, I came across some snippets […]
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Biddy’s – Tom Harte goes Courting
Big Tom Harte was his adopted mother’s jack-of-all-trades. In fact, I do not know how she could ever have managed the farm without having his clear head and sound judgment to guide her. Everyone in the parish knew Tom as a man well-trained in getting a bargain and, probably, the best judge of a ‘beast’ […]
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The Stories of Seamus No.3
Bisto and the Priest The small town in which I have lived most of my long life is not much different from any other small rural town in Ireland. There are some towns that may be larger than others, and some that are smaller, but in each of these towns lives at least one character […]
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The Stories of Seamus No.2
Anne Maria Carew The following inscription was found in on a tombstone in the churchyard of Youghal that marks the grave of Anne Maria Carew, who died at the young age of 24 years. ’Tis ever thus, ’tis ever thus, when hope hath built a bow’r Like that of Eden, wreathed about with many a […]
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The Stories of Seamus No.1
Away with the Fairies His family had christened him Edward, but we preferred to call him ‘Mitch’ because he was always playing truant from school, which where we live is known as “Mitching.” He was the life in our small group of boys as we played in the fields and streams around our homes. But […]
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Across the Sheugh
Little Red Bike After almost sixty years after the events that follow, in this book of stories, it amazes me that I can still recall so much detail. This was particularly true as I began to recall my very first bicycle. Firstly, it was not a bicycle in the true sense of the word because […]
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