Tag: Church
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The Stories of Seamus No 7
Bob Harte The following story concerns a well known character, who resided in this town over one hundred years ago, which was just before the Great War began in 1914. He was employed as a church sacristan and caretaker who worked in and about the town’s impressive Church of Ireland Church. Known to all as […]
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The Visit
He walked up toward the big double door made of pinewood, one door of which was open to whoever wanted to enter. Joe walked through the open door and stepped into the small, but modern built church and went to the nearby water-font, into which he dipped his fingers. He blessed himself, “In the name […]
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THE CHURCH OF BALLYMORE.
I HAVE knelt in great cathedrals with their wondrous naves and aisles, Whose fairy arches blend and interlace, Where the sunlight on the paintings like a ray of glory smiles, And the shadows seem to sanctify the place; Where the organ’s tones, like echoes of an angel’s trumpet roll, Wafted down by seraph wings from […]
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