School in St. Louis is mostly good memories. In Ballymena. Singing in the front hall with Sr. Marie Gertrude, playing around the huge rhododendron bushes which could become any place you wanted to imagine. My tenth birthday and the retreat. The…
I don't think, as a child, I would have been too surprised to 'meet a lochrey man' such as the one mentioned in Seosamh 0 Cathmhoill's song which was a favorite My father and mother were Irish And I am Irish too. I bought a wee fidil for…
Oft in the stilly night ere slumbers chain has bound me Fond memories bring the light of other days around me Oft in the Stilly Night is an appropriate song to start with, because in thinking about my childhood I have become conscious of many fond…
Nathan and Shelly were brother and sister. He was just 2 years of age and Shelley was 4 when we moved to Taughmonagh. They were our next door neighbours. It wasn't long till both of them made themselves at home in our house where Ann, my Wife,…
