Anthony Wilson
If you want to know what happened on the 17th, listen to the sermon given this afternoon on the Church of God - PKG website.
Blog Detail
Jim's Scratchings
http://belclare.blogspot.com
A personal story of growing up in the Nth inner city of Dublin Ireland duing the 1950s and 1960s.
- Author: Jim
- Listed in: Personal Culture
- Tags: hard times personal story inner city dublin summerhill rutland st school gardiner street
Recent Posts
Blog Moved
Anyone dropping in here please go to the updated blog by clicking HERE.At the moment I'm trying to track down whoever is causing the pop ups in this blog. I'm doing that by removing all of the widgets and add ins and as soon as I discover the one tha...
Popups
Just a note to say that if anyone is experiencing unwanted popups (never heard of a wanted one) there's a replica of this blog.If you'd like to go there clicking HERE will bring you to it.I'll keep both blogs going until such time as I find out where...
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Hello again!Where have you been eh? It's been awhile, but at last I feel more up to continuing my blog. Before continuing with my stories I thought I'd introduce a video clip made at Summerhill, the place where I was born and where much of my old m...
Memory of Ma by Marie
To the right is a photo of our Ma, taken in O'Connell Street Dublin about 1950.I wanted to include this photo with the nice memory and tribute to Ma that my sister Marie wrote below.The words that follow are Marie's......"My ma was a wonderful woman...
Our Dad
Remembering our Dad today.Our dear Dad who went to sleep peacefully on this day, 5th May 1983, aged 61 years.I wrote little notes of memories, poems and little other bits and pieces in tribute to you Dad. But my thoughts kept returning to one that I...
A ramble around my town.
Before I continue with my stories, yet another showing to my readers of a bit of my city -- I offer this video clip. Much of this video before 7 am on an Easter Sunday morning, so Dublin will look very quiet to you. The video starts with street sc...
Comments & Reviews
This blog is currently rated a 4.60 out of a possible 5 based on 5 comments.
beinki
Nice work, wish I could visit there some time.
Jack Sparrow
Am sorry to listen about your brother. But glad you are taking it in the right spirit. Came across your blog from the widgets discussion.... interesting! Pls keep up the beautiful work.
Cheers.
BellyDanceGirl
A very well-done blog. I love Ireland! Part Irish myself!
Hi Jim
Like the blog from the liberties myself but knew a lot of people from summer hill.Have a blog at http://encouragechange.blogspot.com.Looking forward to reading more of your posts.slan
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