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Brian Nolan's Blog – December 2014 Archive (2)
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.…
Added by Brian Nolan on December 31, 2014 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments
Burying Baby Jesus: A Galway Christmas Story
My dad, Guard John Murphy (Killimor, Ballinasloe) died in Our Lady’s Hospice (Harold’s Cross, Dublin) aged forty-four, leaving my mother, aged thirty-nine, with ten children aged two and a half to eighteen years old.
On Christmas Eve of 1945, we spent most…
ContinueAdded by Brian Nolan on December 24, 2014 at 4:00am — 5 Comments
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