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Post by tommysweeney1 on Nov 29, 2009 10:39:28 GMT
hi all looking back as a kid growing up in pearse tce its funny the things that stick out most funny I don't remember one summer that was bad, the tar always seemed to melt on the roads every season had something that came with it summer was of course my favorite walking to the liffey with the lads fishing for trout. following the sound of the scrambles across the plains and getting the smell of fumes from the airborne bikes. Wintertime meant gathering up the leafs in the tennis court to make a soft landing attempting summer salts ,The residents of pearse seemed to be there forever no one moved in my mind anyway. Once we lived next to O' hallrons, Mrs o Hallron god be good to her had a cat and convinced us that he could use the toilet and flush it after him, we believed it for years after. Pat Murphy's DA (Dixie) and Paul durneys DA coming back from Cyprus buying two identical cars two fiats regs Lio 326,Lio 327 why i remember that i don't know. my mother sending me to mcnamees to buy a head of lettuce and a bunch of scallions, or to MC Donnell's (Gerry's ,olive and Allens , DA had a immaculate plot and grew everything. Rebel Hughes the one eyed dog, our own dog yogi who used to Chase Marion Kelly up and down the block. games like jack jack and marbles. collecting bees in jam jars in the summer.waking up in the wintertime even with the army Grey blankets, freezing wiping the condensation from the windows, having our own walk in fridge the front hall was used to keep milk and butter. caddying in the golf club, having to retrieve golf clubs from trees when caddying for Mick o Toole (horse trainer) if he hit a bad shot he used to fire the club as far as he could. and standing in Barry's lake on the pitch and putt. club atlumville with trousers rolled up searching for golf balls to cash in. The smell of the goats who used to visit to forage in the ash bins from time to time. stringing up a line to make a tent out of a blanket and snoozing away ahh happy times. Wouldent you give anything to return back there for a day.
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Post by mary carroll on Nov 29, 2009 21:50:52 GMT
Hi Tommy, I also remember the games like jack jack also thunder and lightening especially when there was a bottle tied to the door knob and put on the top verranda my God we were like lightening then, not that I ever did that. Also kick the can, it didn't take much to keep us happy. Mustn't forget hop scotch there is probably loads more memory ticking over ninety to the dozen now God where did that saying come from, anyone any ideas.
Cheers Mary C
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Post by tommysweeney1 on Nov 30, 2009 20:27:21 GMT
hi Mary,
the girls in those days seemed to have loads of games things came around in waves they were content with a hoop or a skipping rope for us lads we had to build camps out of waste wood and galvanize sheets. Things that would"t be PC now like collecting birds eggs climbing trees risking life and limb. Playing rounders of course we were always either cowboys or soldiers i don't remember a Christmas i didn't receive one type of gun or another from Santa. my own sister was a pest for knocking on doors and running away at night i don't think that would be go down well now. but i suppose it was all down to good clean fun Sundays were watching Shirley temple films or some kind of musical on the telly if the weather was cold outside. try explaining this to the kids now.
regards
tommy s
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Post by mary carroll on Nov 30, 2009 20:46:23 GMT
Hi Tommy, I have tried to explain it and they thought I was mad, well I probably am in a way, I remember my brothers getting cowboy outfits for Christmas and of course poor little me had to be the indian tied up against the pole in Connolly. I was also a bit of a tomboy climbing trees and if I remember rightly there was some kind of shed across from the gym I remember falling off that and cutting my head open. And what can I say to Shirley Temple I raise my hands to you I thought it was just us girls who watched her, good on you.
Cheers Mary C
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Post by gercollinsfurlong on Nov 30, 2009 21:28:59 GMT
Hi Tommy s / Mary Tommy Don't say you never had a game of knock knock. Also Christmas morning i think every lad on the curragh had a gun i think everyone woke to the sound of the caps and when the strip of caps fell from the guns us girls would bang the hell out of them with a rock hoping the gun had missed it.Talking about Shirley temple loved all her films i actually bought her box set the other day brought it all back but must say she did not have the same affect on the family the film i liked best was Heidi,and of course her best song good ship lollie pop. GERALDINE
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Post by mary carroll on Nov 30, 2009 22:32:50 GMT
Hi All, I'm at work reading these posts with a smile on my face, I'm now back in the Curragh (where my heart is) I'm just a kid, and just remembering everything it brings tears to my eyes but happy tears. And Geraldine I now hear Shirley Temple singing the good ship lolly pop, I'll be hearing that for the next 9 hours thanks, I might even sing it to the patients in the morning see if they remember her. They'll think I've really lost it then, and they might not be wrong!
Cheers Mary C
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Post by maryfarrell6 on Dec 1, 2009 13:53:08 GMT
Hi Tommy,Mary and Ger, I think we all at one time or another played knock,knock, but Tommy not all us girls were content with hoops and skipping ropes. We gave ye boys a run for your money on the obstacle course, built our own camps in the plantation on the green road just down from the tenny courts climbed the same trees and dived into the leaves there in Autumn. We weren't afraid to join in the boys games we slide down the hill from the far grass on coal sacks in the winter colliding into the big tree half way down more than once, due to having no control of our 'sleigh And down trolley hill on trolleys in the summer[granted we needed the boys help in constructing them] So we ended up with as many cuts and bruises as the lads. I have a photo taken one Christmas when I was 8 of me in my cowgirl outfit complete with gun and holster can almost smell the caps as they went off. I drove my poor ma mad in the run up to xmas looking for that suit after spotting it in Powell's window I do remember the Shirley Temple Films but there was another program on sundays not sure of the name it was something like Robin Hood. But you knew the minute it finished because all the lads would charge out of the houses re-enacting the whole thing. One particular occasion young Ally McDonald was swinging a home made sling complete with stone round at about 30mph yelling "Gerry Lafond the kings outlaw" and he nearly took his eye out with it . Mad rush to the families can't remember how he fared after that. Bye for now MaryF
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Post by tommysweeney1 on Dec 1, 2009 19:11:44 GMT
hi Mary f and Geraldine Jayz i didn't mean girls were anyway less inferior than boys reading some of the threads i am afraid iam coming across as a big Shirley temple fan that was just one of many films , i could get a bad name it would 'ent do my reputation any good just to even it up i watched loads of westerns as well and war films phew! tommy
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Post by gercollinsfurlong on Dec 2, 2009 20:20:22 GMT
Hi Tommy To late can't windle your way out of it now it's OK your among friends. ;D I'm trying to place you and for the life of me i can't GERALDINE
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Post by tommysweeney1 on Dec 3, 2009 19:55:00 GMT
hi Geraldine
you should know me well to see anyway you lived across the road for long enough ,i new your DA god be good to him , anytime i bumped into him he would always stop and chat,a gent my mam thought the world of him. i suppose skinny would know me best we were overseas together a few years ago , id say you know most of the family i haven't lived there in years but visit mam most days
tommy
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Post by andybrennan on Dec 3, 2009 21:07:47 GMT
well Tom, Iguessed it was you was just waiting for Geraldine to make the connection Cheers Andy
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Post by tommysweeney1 on Dec 3, 2009 22:32:36 GMT
hi Andy
haven't come across you in ages how are you keeping , looking back at some of the old treads your keeping the site going fair play ,i see your a CQMS now this time next year if the embargo is lifted you'll be brigader general , iam starting to get hooked myself on this site its very good and a credit to Matt I think people who grew up in the curragh have alot in common. growing up in a unique place that was one adventure playground.
nice to hear from you again
tommy
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Post by gercollinsfurlong on Dec 3, 2009 22:39:30 GMT
Hi Tommy Think i have you now i remember moses as we called him was his name Mick, then there was a skinny chap [sorry]think its you,then Paul,[old boyfriend]long long time ago and David also two girls Ann and Lisa.did not make the connection because i did not know your name or i could have it the wrong way round were you the youngest chap? GERALDINE
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Post by andybrennan on Dec 3, 2009 23:06:36 GMT
Greets to you to Tom tis a grand site a real memory improver
Andy
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Post by tommysweeney1 on Dec 4, 2009 19:11:45 GMT
hi Geraldine
I am afraid I was a skinny chap then yeah thats me I don't know moses ,well ,not the one from orchard park anyway but you might be referring to PJ he is still the same you could see him anywhere. Paul lives in Cornwall gets home once a year, and Anne in Southampton. Davids in waterford somewhere see him now and again and Lisa lives in Kildare town well thats them all Is all your family still living in orchard park? I think skinny might be.
tommy s
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