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Post by padtroy on Feb 27, 2010 19:52:48 GMT
HI TRISH.
can you give shanks my very best regards from one of his old buddys.
paddy troy
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Post by johnnykelly on Feb 27, 2010 20:31:12 GMT
RE GROWING UP IN PEARSE TERRACE THE THINGS I REMEMBER Hi Trish welcome on board the forum,nice to hear from you after all these years. tell your mum Peggy that i was looking at some old College XMAS dinner dance photos during the week up in my sister Chris and there was photos of your mam and dad . along with many of the Pearse NCOS and WIFES All out of Married Quarters. bye for now. Johnny Kelly x No 6 Pearse tce
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Post by maryfarrell6 on Feb 27, 2010 21:04:16 GMT
Hi Johnny, When I was home just after Christmas I was also looking at some old College Christmas Dinner Dance Photos as well. It was great to see the people who formed a major part of our growing up who looked out for us as if we were 1 of there own and chastised us if we needed it. It was lovely to see the faces of the former neighbours as bright elegant young things all full of the joys and woes of life. So if you can print Chris's photos that would be brilliant. The next time I'm home I'll see if I can get Mammy and Daddy to agree to let me post some of their old photos!!!
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Post by kellquinn on Feb 27, 2010 21:56:03 GMT
Hi Trish and all, I got that photo via e/mail from Paddy Troy and posted it on to matt who placed it on the Forum. I have a copy printed out and the next time you are up in Newbridge with your Mam, I will try and make contact and give you a copy, let's know in time and we will arrange a meet. As I would love to see your mam again. Regards JKelly
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Post by maryb51 on Feb 27, 2010 22:35:08 GMT
Hi Trish, We had some good times working in Sloans, or uncle alex as we called him for years. Do you remember when Sheila conlan got us to join the legion of mary, we were nearly been thrown out on our first and only meeting, we couldn't stop giggling, and another night we went on a visit to a travelers halting site in newbridge, and you arrived in your sunday best. Remember the day we went to one of the girls wedding in portlaoise, and it was so boring we thumbed home, got a lift in the evening press van, nearly got killed, they were doing about 100 miles an hour. Good memories. Talk soon. Maryb
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Post by trishsmullen on Feb 28, 2010 21:55:21 GMT
Hi Mare Yes I do remember Sloans, I remember running for the bus every morning. I remember the Legion of Mary, that was short lived. The wedding we went to was Margaret Dunnes, she married a Kildare footballer. We went out the night before and spent all our money, so as a result we had no money for beer, so we got bored and decided to go home. We were luckey to get home alive, we then went to your house and had lovely sandwiches . great memories Mary. Regards Trish.
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Post by trishsmullen on Feb 28, 2010 22:10:18 GMT
Hi Tommy. I remember you and your family, yes I am a bit older than you, I especially remember Anne as she was a good friend of Ber's. How is Anne is she still in england? please give her my regards. I hope your mam and dad are keeping well. My mam is 86 now and my dad is 89. Regards Trish
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Post by johnnykelly on Feb 28, 2010 22:23:21 GMT
RE:GROWING UP IN PEARSE Tce THE THINGS I REMEMBER. Hi all. Speaking of house parties houlies etc, I remember the day that Susanagh Molloy got Married it was a house wedding and it was held in Paddy McGuinness house which was across the bottom road in Pearse in one of the 2 tinned houses across from the bottom block, the sun was splitting the trees and all the kids were sitting outside on the grass bank listining to the ceili music when the Bride and Groom emerged outside and asked us to sing a song so we all chimed in with there was an old woman who lived in the woods, and Dublins fair city, and we all got cakes lemonade orange sweets etc, and we stayed there well into the night listining to the music, in lovely weather, what memories, bye for now. Johnny Kelly
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Post by carmelkearney on Feb 28, 2010 22:28:59 GMT
Hi Trish, just reading your thread, both my parents are dead your lucky to still have yours hope their health is good . Carmel K.
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Post by trishsmullen on Feb 28, 2010 22:34:26 GMT
Hi Joey and Johnny, Thank you so much for your kind welcome on board. I was chatting with my mam last night, and she told me to ask Joey does he remember when she used to go to your house, and herself and your mam would get a few bottles from the mess, and Joey would have to walk her home up the hill. not too nice on a cold Winters night. Trish.
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Post by johnnykelly on Feb 28, 2010 22:39:19 GMT
RE: GROWING UP IN PEARSE Tce THE THINGS I REMEMBER. Hi all, Well MaryB51,I remember one evening myself Joey Paddy Troy Shanks Smullen Andy Heffernan were skylarking about around the clock tower at the back of the church when one of the lads came up with the idea of joining the junior pioneers association in the side rooms of the Church it was said that they served tea and buns afterwards so in we went and were made welcome by all, we said decades of the rosary many many prayers and took pledges of abstinance we must have been in there over 2 hours when we were informed that we were finished and that we were to attend next week,you would want to see the looks on our gobs we were as sick as parrots, full of religion but no tea or buns, Ist and last visit that one, not one of our brightest ideas. bye for now. Johnny Kelly.
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Post by trishsmullen on Feb 28, 2010 22:43:02 GMT
Hi Carmel, My mam is in good health thank God, sometimes I think she is better than myself' My dad is in a nursing home, he has alzeimers, does not know us a lot of the time, it is hard to see him that way. He was such a strong character, and now he is helpless. I visit him every second day, thats all I can do for him now. Talk soon Trish
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Post by carmelkearney on Feb 28, 2010 23:01:29 GMT
i Johnny, i only remember one house party i was at in the curragh sorry two, the first one was in Trish Smullens, do you remember Trish? dont know where your parents were that night some of the lads went to the mess and got the beer it was a good one, we all paid the price with the parents the next day. My second house party was not planned but night before my wedding i went to Betty Burkes in connolly (John brother of Joe who i was getting married to) and of course with hair all done up in curlers i could'nt go to the mess, Kit and the rest of them went and left me with the underage kids (young Burkes) to drink tea but we found a crate under the table which they were keeping for after the mess closed and we helped ourselves by the time they came home i was as full as them , poor Kit all he could say was "how am i going to take you home to your mother like this she'll kill me" well it was my wedding why should'nt i celebrate i was 21 after all.
Carmel K.
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Post by carmelkearney on Feb 28, 2010 23:16:21 GMT
Trish , sorry to hear about your dad, my father was in Athy for a year before he died and all we could do was be there every evening with him the girls and the lads took turns after work and then we all done Sundays, staff in Athy were superb they looked after him really well. Carmel K.
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Post by annemcnamara on Feb 28, 2010 23:17:28 GMT
Hi Carmel, great story well told, and why not it was your wedding? sure the hair was in curlers what else was there to do?
Anne.
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