The distinguished man with the abundant facial fungus pictured below is about to feature in a number of anecdotes on site here, so I’d better introduce him.
Addy McLoughlin
Reminiscence
Dick’s Emigrants
‘There was much talk around my table in Dick’s back in the late 1960s, of jobs – or rather, of the lack of them ….
Dick’s Ashtray
This ashtray was originally from the Lido Caf
It has, scratched on its surface the names of a lot of local young people of that time, that is, the mid nineteen sixties.
Are any of your names amongst this lot?
Or do you know anyone named here?
Maria Fearon
Olwen Dean
Gerry Brady
Maria McEvoy
Alicia Hanratty
Myles McKevitt
M Cunningham
John Cully
Benny McKeown
Jim McManus
Jean Havern
K Peters
Ann Hagan
Martin Blair
I was a bus?
There are a few other single Christian names and assorted initials also.
There are no political or paramilitary references, no swear words or no sexual innuendos.
We all were an innocent lot in those days.
The ashtray is quite genuine and was in the
Gallaghers remembered
In response to our tribute to the late Michael Gallagher, we have been inundated with people’s recollections of the shop in North Street. Our regular contributor Patrick J White, formerly of O’Neill Avenue sent us a few photos which we are happy to reproduce here.
Michael Gallagher RIP
It is with great regret that we announce the death today of Michael Gallagher (pictured) of
Corn Market Soldiers
The soldiers billeted in Haldanes and Stark’s Factory during the War were often drilled in the streets around Corn Market where I lived. We all thought it fun to watch them.
Smugglers & Criminals
A number of stories of ‘severe’ misconduct and ever more severe judicial retribution caught my eye in the pages of the Reporter from 16 May 1942, in the middle of the War.
Annamar School 1930s
I am greatly indebted to Mrs Norris and her husband, teachers of
