In the Independent Club many years ago, the playing of cards in the Band Room was a common occurrence. This took place on most nights but Sunday afternoon and evening was the best time for the game of cards – whether it was rummy, poker or pontoon.
Places
Taking night classes
What could I do indeed? I had little formal education having left school in St Bride’s when I was half-way through grade seven – and no marketable skills.
From Sunnyside to St Bride’s
By late October the wheat fields surrounding our house since our arrival were all shorn and empty. All that remained, a short distance away, seeming forlorn and lonely in the vast sea of grey stubble, was a huge pile of straw.
Cowan Street 1914: more …
One of the more interesting intellectual pursuits one might follow in middle age is tracing one’s family roots. Begin with the living: ……..
1914 Cowan Street
1 T Cronin MD
2 Rev William Moore
3 Joseph Slane
5 Mrs Graham
7 Newry Hotel (T Heaney)
9 Thomas Smith
Shaggy Dog Story
One day when I was not at home and our mother was helping Mrs Jeffrey gather wild strawberries in the cow pasture, Sally and Mary Ann watched closely as a large shaggy dog came trotting leisurely down the road from the South.
Wolves on the prowl
Soon after our arrival in
Mushrats
During those ‘washday’ trips to the local river, which we turned into a picnic/day-out, the baby was placed in the care of my sister Mary-Ann. She tended him on the grassy bank while Sally and I helped our mother.