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Post by Frank O'Connor on Jun 7, 2012 18:48:10 GMT
Hello Lara Geary,
I was great friends with Tommy and Frankie Sinnott in the early seventies but lost touch with them completely a long time ago.
Actually, I lost touch with everyone for thirty odd years but have been able to renew old frienships thanks in large part to this forum, and I am back in regular touch with our little gang in Newbridge from those days.
We often talk about Frankie and Tommy, and me and the guys are very sad to have lost touch with them.
Please, if you read this, give them my love and best regards. Tell them I'm just down the road in Notting Hill and would love to hear from them.
Perhaps you would be kind enough to email me at;
zerofrancis@hotmail.com
I could then send you my telephone number to pass on to the boys and maybe we can get this show back on the road (before we all pop our clogs).
Francis (Frank O'Connor)
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Post by andybrennan on Jun 7, 2012 21:48:18 GMT
Hi Lara Geary,
I do know your aunt Josie, also cousin T.C Martin , I remember your dad Paddy, he was a bit older then I so hello or hows it going would have being the extent of our acquaintance. I do have a memory of him at one stage he was back from England it was in the sixties,when all us chaps were sure we knew the answers to everything, Paddy was at the pictures and after it was over there was a bit of a row where he was picked on, but he was well able to take care of himself. I have a picture of him in my head of that time longish hair a waist length leather jacked drainpipe trousers and winkle pickers, He was a quite lad I remember him standing at the door in Plunkett.Now I could be wrong but that is my memory. Like many other readers and posters on the forum he traveled to England as that was the only route open to him. For years I thought the Geary family consisted of Paddy and Josie, strange that, you would think I was reared on a different planet. Jimmy Martin T.C.s dad only made the Geary connection there lately, same goes for Chubby as mentioned by Liam.
I knocked around with your uncle Michael for a while way back then.Your grand dad a gentle giant, saying that even the smallest man back then was a giant in my eyes.
Regards to you mother
Andy
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Post by larageary on Jun 8, 2012 14:27:35 GMT
Hello Francis,
I will email you now. I live not to far from you in West Hampstead. Frankie and Tommy are both in Islington. If you're on facebook you can see Frank. I will of course send your details to them both.
Lara
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Post by annemcnamara on Jun 8, 2012 20:12:58 GMT
Hi Francis, I hope you meet up with the Sinnott twins and have a bit of craic. Please let us know when you do make contact. All the best, Anne.
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Post by Frank O'Connor on Jun 9, 2012 0:16:29 GMT
Hi Anne,
No more craic for me I'm afraid......doctors orders.
Actually, this is all about burning bridges for me. We burn our bridges so easily when we're young, but often we don't realise the true cost to the heart when we do this. If we are lucky enough to be able to rebuild some of those bridges when we get older, and a wee bit wiser, we start to realize the value of what we have so carelessly lost or abandoned. I've been fortunate enough to discover some of this of late
Lara,
I left you a private message. Please look for this when you logon.
Francis
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Post by annemcnamara on Jun 9, 2012 12:33:02 GMT
Francis, enjoy the building. There's no time like the present and never too late. Anne.
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Post by Donie Bolger on Jun 22, 2012 17:07:04 GMT
Brilliant read brought back great memories,you didn't mention the ball alley or picnics at the liffey but you probably could have gone on for ever,what a great upbringing we had so much freedom life will never be the same again we were blessed. Thanks again. DonieB
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Post by annemcnamara on Jun 22, 2012 20:26:00 GMT
Hi Donie, indeed we were blessed we shadowers know that only too well. Good to see you logging in, go a little further and register... sure you know most of us. All the best, Anne.
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Post by marykeaneclarke on Sept 7, 2012 9:07:46 GMT
Hi Frank,
Keep safe and well and keep in touch with this forum - it is good for the heart. Hindsight is a great thing - but when you are young the world is your oyster and I believe I enjoyed life to the full - a few missed opportunities, regrets etc. but however, life is good.
I answered your last mail to me a couple of months back.
Kind regards,
Mary Keane
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Post by marykeaneclarke on Sept 7, 2012 9:09:58 GMT
Hi Donie,
Would you be Ellen Bolgers brother?
I went to school with Ellen - we had some laughs - as you did if you are from the Curragh.
Kind regards,
Mary Keane.
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Post by limerick on Sept 8, 2012 8:45:48 GMT
Ex-Curragh people are invited to a London gathering to be arranged in the near future. I can be contacted through this Forum or at dee.con12@gmail.com
limerick
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Post by Dennis Fisher on Dec 25, 2012 22:44:33 GMT
Hi All The following article was sent to me and is the masterpiece of Joey Kelly. He describes his memories of growing up on the Curragh Camp during the 50’s 60’s 70’s. It is a great read and a real trip down memory lane with contributions from other “ Shadowers”. Thanks again Joey for this piece of work, it is a real gem and a look back at a great time to have lived on The Curragh Camp. Read it here: www.curragh.info/kelly/Curragh_Memories.pdfMatt
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Post by peader on Dec 29, 2012 9:14:38 GMT
Hiya Donie.I knew ur sisters,Mary and Ellen quite well,as Mary and Maureen o'Brien were like superglued together.Way back in the 70's,Ellelived and worked about 3 or 4 miles from me in Horsham.She worked with my step daughter:Marlene Guppy.I also knew ur dad Paddy.He was our cook,as i was in the army band on the Curragh in the early 60's.I used to go out with Maureen,and i have recently met up with her in Basingstoke,in England.I have also met her daughters,Michelle and Emer and their children.I have met Maureen's late husband,Michael Lacey,who passed away last august r.i.p. Anyway,although u may not know me,ihope that you and yours are well.Take care.Peader.
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Post by rolaoghaire on Apr 26, 2013 0:25:41 GMT
I enjoyed Joeys brilliant coverage of the ,50,60,70, But I have to put my version of The Curragh Barracks children’s Christmas Parties. and what it was like for me. I am afraid that the Christmas Barrack parties only held sad memories for me. Every Christmas when my class mates were getting very excited about their forthcoming Barrack Parties, I used to start feeling sorry for myself, because I knew that I would not be invited. This was the only time that I wished that my father was in the army. On the afternoon of the day of the party the teacher would call out to the boys from the two particular Barrack where the parties were being held, that it was time to leave school to go to their parties. Naturally as a young boy I was very disappointed to be missing out on seeing Santa or getting nice cakes and lemonade and especially the presents. I understood why I and some other children from Suncroft and Maddenstown could not attend but it seemed so unfair to me then. As soon as school was over I would head off to the Barracks where the parties were held and stand outside the door hoping someone would feel sorry for me and maybe invite me in. I thought there may be a spare present left over and it would be given to me. I never did get invited or get a present and as soon as the excited children were leaving the party, I would head off to the next party with the same results. I tried the same thing each day until all the barrack parties had finished still hoping my luck would change. I continued to follow the same practices each year with exactly the same results. I would then trudge home across the Curragh towards the Race Course feeling sorry for myself and trying to figure out a way in which I could gatecrash the parties in the future. When I got home my mother would give me a good roasting for been late home from school, and reason I would give was that I was playing football.
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Post by michaelkelly on May 1, 2013 18:14:25 GMT
Hello Seamus
Would you be a brother of the late Paddy Kelly, R.I.P. who sadly passed-away a number of years ago . I was in the same Class in the National School as Paddy. And I do indeed remember you all coming across the Curragh Plains every morning to School . Paddy was a nice quiet fellow and he had a great attendance record . I also remember your Brother Paul, and I met your Sisater on a number of occasiuon down through the years, and she always gave me an up-date on Paddy, and I was really very sorry to hear that he passed away a few years ago . R.I.P.
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