The summers would be very hot then and I loved the summer schemes in St Patrick’s school where we spent many a day playing table tennis with a man called Seamey Crawley who would be supervising.
Meadow of 1970s .. concluded
John McCullagh
The Meadow Shops …
I remember once during the summer my father hired a sky blue Volkswagen Beetle out for a few days from
Meadow Memories of 1970s
The happiest days of my life (and the best foundation stone of any child’s life) were spent in the Meadow, where I was born in 1967 :
Mad Old Men
Yeats had specific people in his own life in mind when he wrote the following poem. Students of the man, and of his life and times have little difficulty in putting names to the persons alluded to.
Newry’s Labour Leaders
Dickie Rodgers has suffered a few strokes recently and this is on top of a serious illness he has been fighting for more than a decade. But Dickie is nothing if not a fighter and even in his eighties he is a lively conversationalist.
Calm .. penultimate
Our parents were never happy; they fought constantly like politicians exchanging insults to the bitter end. For the greater part of our childhood their relationship was marked by angry verbal encounters in a daily war of attrition.
Calm … 3 …
I left the hospital and got into my car and drove to the local beach. This place was very special to us from the time that we both could walk.
Calm after the Storm … 2 …
Cancer: the very sound of that awful word filled my head and my heart with uncontrollable grief and anger. I couldn’t bear the pain of seeing her youthful eyes close for the last time. I wanted to remember her in the full glory of life.
Calm After the Storm … 1 …
[We must emphasise that the following is a fictional story that will be serialised during the next fortnight while Mr & Mrs Editor are on holiday!]