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Post by carmelkearney on Apr 28, 2012 21:51:43 GMT
guys i think it would be great next time if the other girls could join us, i have often wondered where Ellen and Jennifer went wouldnt it be great to all get together after all these years.
Carmel Kearney
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Post by carmelkearney on Apr 28, 2012 21:53:18 GMT
it was a great night meeting Jacqueline,
Carmel
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Post by peader on Apr 29, 2012 9:12:44 GMT
Hi again Jac.Thanx for reply.Have just been thinking:When i lived in Horsham in West Sussex during the '60's,my stepdaughter Marlene worked with Ellen Bolger in Broadbridge Heath(near Horsham).I also remember Paddy Bolger who was a cook in McDonagh.That's it for now,so chow to you.Hope you and yours are well.Slan Leat.Peader.x
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Post by afcmoore on Apr 29, 2012 11:20:46 GMT
Hello Peader. This is the way West (Suss ex ) got you under the trip wire. I remember the cook in Mcdonagh Paddy Bolger. I had my first fine army dining there in 1961. Breakfast Quarter loaf bread lump of butter on top, egg crispy rasher beans. The supplement later from Mrs Burke. Ant
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Post by marykeane on May 12, 2012 15:02:11 GMT
I only just tuned into all the messages - I thought I knew computers well I just had a deflated rude awakening - I better study this more - anyway Jac I hope you contacted Joan after. Yes, Carmel it would be super if we could meet up with the girls you mentioned now that we have made the first connection- it was a good night had by all...... No offence it is wonderful that there are so many McDonagh people in contact on site I would love to hear from all the Clarke crowd - it there are any ...... I know Andy is for definite!!!! Even though I spent a lot of time in McDonagh as a child in Smiths with Monica, in Bolgers with Ellen, and Dolans with Mary and forget to go home sometimes and get killed when I eventually got home. Anyway, heres to another reunion soon. Cheers Mary
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Post by andybrennan on May 13, 2012 7:06:03 GMT
Hi Mary K Fellow Clarkite,
How oft were we killed by the parents yet we are all still walking around?.
Cyrel Henry has a peek in now and then and as for Joey and many of the contributors shure they could be Clarkites as well as they also lived there, hard to place an allegiance to any particular barracks when we shifted and lived in different ones at different stages.
Andy
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Post by liamkearney on May 13, 2012 22:15:33 GMT
Hi Andy, you are quite right. I finished up in Pearse but started out in Clarke. Liam
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Post by kellquinn on May 14, 2012 12:11:15 GMT
Hi Andy. In respect of my allegiance to a barracks, I have only one allegiance and it is to Pearse, the reason I was born there, as were all Shadowers!!! unless it was a home birth. Just remember, the families hospital was located in Pearse. Up Pearse, Up The Curragh! Regards JKelly
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Post by jacquelinemccarney on May 14, 2012 12:41:17 GMT
Just looking at youtube, and old Curragh residents talking about memories of living on the Curragh!!! It seems that once you have lived on the Curragh you are smitten!!! There can't be many places on this planet where so many of the ex- residents share such fond, happy memories - especially memories of childhood!!
J x
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Post by joanivers on May 14, 2012 18:32:38 GMT
Hi Jackie, Sorry I don't have any of the girls numbers, have'nt seen them for years, think Ellen B is over there an Mon O'Brien is in Dublin, would love to see them. Jennifer married John Healy from Tipp., they live in Kerry now she often rings my Mam, her Mam is in her nineties now. I was away for years an lost touch with everyone but I would love just one more day in the Curragh as a kid, we did;nt know how good we had it, and all the Curragh women deserve a Golden Crown, they were all great, hello to Hubby, going looking for that photo my dad is in, in the hospital mess, love and best wishes xxx
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Post by andybrennan on May 14, 2012 22:50:18 GMT
Hi Joey,
As stated in earlier posts, Me I am not a shadower, born elswhere but saying that I can and do cast as big a shadow as any shadower.
Not allied to any barracks but am to the Curragh and its people both past or present, shadowers or not , long term inhabitents or short or passing through, even those who are implicated by relation marraige or otherwise, all are Curragh people to me and all held in high esteem. I have a large Grá for the place and its people, more good memories then bad.
When we all stand together at noon and the Sun is high in the sky you will find no difference in hight or shadow cast.
Andy
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Post by kellquinn on May 15, 2012 9:27:51 GMT
Hi Andy Sorry if I offended, I was only joshing.., I of course believe that any person who passed through the Curragh can claim Shadowership, If the facts be known, although born in the Families Hospital in 1950, My parents were actually living in Connolly at the time and I spent my first five years living there, I lived in the Block just down from the Wet/Dry Canteen, wherein Bud Fisher was later the Manager. We then moved to Pearse, and from there to Owen Roe Road, just across from the Range Wardens, and from there back up to Pearse Tce, No 6, which is still standing. When I got married I first lived in Plunkett, then Clarke and finally Mc Dermott, and from there finally moved to Newbridge, where I am now settled. I have always had a Grá for Pearse as I spent most of my growing youth there, made great friends, and had some great times and experiences. Again my good friend, I am sorry if I upset you, I could actually visualize the new Keyboard going hammer and thong as you posted, be careful as it to may go wonky again. Again as I stated, all persons who lived in the Camp, are Shadowers, and like the preverbal dog with a bone I just love to get a bite in. Have to go now so.. Up Pearse, Mc Donagh, Mc Dermott, Clarke,Ceannt, Connolly and Plunkett, and above all Up the Curragh. The Rose one will have a field day with the above. Regards JKelly
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Post by Sean Tracey on May 15, 2012 9:50:25 GMT
Hi Johnny and Andy .Well said up thee Curragh well said .We are all Shadowers and very proud of that fact , there is not a day that goes by that i dont think of the Curragh Camp and our childhood there. OH Johnny give Francis (Butch) all my best i had a long chat with him the last time i was in the camp, we sat down at Powells steps and the years just rolled away as we were talking . AH Well happy memories Sean Tracey. ,
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Post by livenowpraylater on May 15, 2012 15:39:10 GMT
I'm sorry Kellyquinn.
when posting to the senior citizen's.you mentioned two words in the same sentence "hammer" and "thongs" now dont get upset when i explain. i'm sure andy is a man of the world and would know well what a hammer is. but a "thong" , i think not, not that there is much to it to explain he should send kathy'o a pm to save his blushes or rose5 could help him out, the two things andy would remember is the Bloomers an the Panties, . and what did the bloomers say to the panties, "I was often pulled down BUT never pushed to one side". someone has to be the butt of the joke haha. edward.
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Post by jacquelinemccarney on May 15, 2012 18:24:50 GMT
Hi Mary, Carmel, Joan, Hope you girls are all well and spring is coming to Kildare, no signs of it here!!! Joan, tell your mam to give my best to Jennifer and her mam -- well I remember Mrs Drury and her famous mangle!! She stood it out the back on washing day , which I think was every day! --your right Joan about them deserving Gold Crowns !! It seemed to me then to be very posh to have a mangle --that was the height of technology then!!! She will remember old Johnny Edgar well, he lived next door to her and she gave him his dinner weekdays and my mother did it on Sundays!! I had the job of taking over his dinner and most evening running over to get him a few bottles of Guinness, somewhere opposite the morgue!! I flew past the morgue and didn't stop running until I got back to the safety of the houses!! He would push a few coppers into my hand and of course we were all brought up to say "no thank you" so the next ten minutes would be this little ritual, him pushing the money into my hand, me pushing it back to him!!! Don't know how we could keep this up night after night!! Mary, still not managed to get Joan on the phone!! But will try again this weekend!
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