'We had our Honeymoon in Cornwall after spending one night in the Regent Palace Hotel in Leicester Square in London '

'We had our Honeymoon in Cornwall after spending one night in the Regent Palace Hotel in Leicester Square in London '

Harry Browne describes his wedding day and honeymoon.

Harry Browne

Trinity College Dublin

1966

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Harry Browne

Marriage and Family

Life Story

Cornwall, England

1960's

On the 14th September 1966 Sheila and I married in Mullaghea Church outside Kells Co Meath. The church is a very small one outside Kells by about two and a half miles and the entrance is on a country lane much frequented by farmers herding their cows from one place to another. Sheila's father spent the previous day removing the evidence of the cow's passage from the surface of the lane. The reception was in the Sands Hotel (now Tamangos) in Portmarnock and we had about fifty guests, the bill for this reception was ԣ56.00, a not inconsiderable sum in those days. The celebrant was a Father Kevin Swan, a young curate who has since left the priesthood. I sometimes claim that as he is out of the collar we are not actually married at all. We had our Honeymoon in Cornwall after spending one night in the Regent Palace Hotel in Leicester Square in London. Our stay in Cornwall was, of course, idyllic, though my wife says that on a ten day honeymoon I read eleven books. My only excuse is that I am, and always have been, an avid reader. The flight to London cost ԣ200.00.

Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)