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Thats Just How it Was [Part 3]
Started Feb 4, 2019 0 Replies 0 Likes
Trevelyan went on to imprison any Irish Catholic who stole corn from the surplus corn sheds to feed their families. These people were sentenced to prison ships and deported to Australia, leaving…Continue
Thats Just How It Was [part 2]
Started Jan 31, 2019 0 Replies 1 Like
They built mud cabins or huts, just as all the other evicted people did, and it was into these dire conditions that both Patrick and Anne were born. The famine had caused nothing but starvation, the…Continue
That's Just How It Was
Started Oct 29, 2015 0 Replies 1 Like
A tribute to mt Granny . It encapsulates teh famine and all the horrors of the famine , the 1916 Easter Rising and the War of Independence Video below Youtube: …Continue
Eoin MacNeil ; known as the man who tried to stop the 1916 Easter Rising
Started Apr 13, 2015 0 Replies 0 Likes
Eoin MacNeil – was born in Co Antrim May 15th 1869 – the second youngest child in a family…Continue
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"That's Just How It Was"
By Mary Thorpe
This work is a labor of love by the writer Mary Thorpe as a tribute to her much-loved Granny O Rourke (nee Nolan) in an attempt to place the stories she heard and was told into a true and historical context. As a social worker who came across many cases of social deprivation in modern times, in the various social work departments in which she worked in the southeast and northwest of England, Mary had the dawning realization regarding what her own grandmother had been through in even harder times in the late part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century in Ireland and sought to record this.
Mary uses the life of Bridget to celebrate the achievements of other women in Dublin and Bray, in fact, from all over Ireland, in this era, and as such, this story will be of interest to anyone with Irish ancestry. Mary hopes her readers will enjoy the mix of history and biography as an authentic record of times past and that this will be an addition to Celtic history from an empathetic and homespun point of view. Mary clearly believes that our roots are as important just as our word is our bond.
'That's Just How It Was' is available on Amazon (at a reduced price right now), Kindle, Ingham's, Bertham's, Barnes & Noble; and Gardeners World UK.
Waterstone' USA will now order my book for you ; Ireland an England ; Waterstones will order it via Ingrams for you
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James Napper Tandy, Hero of the Hour -- or Not?
Posted on July 4, 2020 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
This song is a constant reminder to me of my childhood, running around singing lines from it with my childhood friends, not knowing or not caring why we were singing it, or indeed who Napper Tandy was. Historical events were not seared into our minds. Only Religion took that place
The…
ContinueButterflies / Fire / Mythology / Legend / Folklore from Ireland
Posted on March 17, 2020 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
As a child running around the garden’s and fields in Wolfe Tone Square where I was raised, playing with friends on the Bray Head that rose above the Town of Bray m I was always fascinated by Butterflies and their many different colours of beautiful wings. Trying to catch them in jam jars, to have a good look at them. I say ‘trying to catch’ because that…
Matilda Tone 1769-1849. Wife of Wolfe Tone , Mother, Rebel
Posted on March 12, 2020 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
View my video Youtube: http://youtu.be/oT0oOa0jx28
Martha “Matilda “ Tone [ wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone] was born in Dublin to Catherine Witherington [née Fanning]. Records show that her father was listed as a Woolen Draper, a Wine Merchant and a merchant between the years 1768 - 1793, some…
Theobald Wolfe Tone: 1763 -1998 Considered to the the Father of Republicanism
Posted on March 3, 2020 at 11:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
View my video Youtube: http://youtu.be/oT0oOa0jx28
Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in 1763. Descendant from French Protestant family who fled Religious Prosecution in the mid-16th century. One branch of the Tone family settled in Dublin. Peter Tone, the son of one…
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Hi Mary,
You can post the video to the Wild Geese site so it appears right on your page. Could you also write a brief summary of the book to post as a blog that way the members of the Wild Geese can get a better sense of what the book is about.
Good luck and welcome to the Wild Geese
Greg Lynch
Heritage PartnerThat's Just How It Was said…
Greg ; have tried to gain access to The Wild Geese site . Unable to as I am computer illiterate !!!
Computers are tricky. What seems to be the problem gaining access to the site?
Pleased to meet you online, Mary.
Thank you, Mary. Accepted with admiration.
PatNZ
Heritage PartnerThat's Just How It Was said…
It is so lovely to have made all these new friends on the wild geese . My thanks to Kelly O' Rourke and Gerry Regan for helping me achieve this
It did leave huge gaps in people's lives when someone emigrated. For instance, just take a look at my blog entitled "The Real Honor Bright", she was my grandmother.
Please keep writing!
AdminFran Reddy said…
Hi Mary! Glad to have you as a friend on here!
Ath-bhlian faoi mhaise daoibh! - Happy New Year to you.
Count your blessings instead of your crosses.
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes.
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears.
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full times instead of your lean.
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth.
Love your neighbor as much as yourself.
The Count himself, Count John McCormack, singing 'The sunshine of your smile' in 1916, when to be fair, there was very little to smile about at all. http://youtu.be/VMDs1sJ3PMI We should all count our blessings, however small.
Brian Nolan
Hi, Mary. I don't know if you've noticed, but your blog post about your childhood has now eclipsed 3,000 views (and counting)! Well done!
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