The Truck
John McCullagh
Dia Gnossis
Dear Agnes,
My doctor gave me a sealed letter to present to my hospital consultant. Curious both about his reading of my ailment and of his opinion of me, I opened it, read it and resealed it in a new envelope on which I typed the consultant’s name (this originally was hand-written).
Offensive Bird
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and a worse vocabulary.
Old Trades & Practices
From Damask Patterning to Handloom Weaving, from The Stocks to the Castle Guards, these are photos of the old trades and practices of Ulster.
Lislea Results
The final night’s offering at Lislea was from the Sillan Players of Castleblaney and was Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians, a most complex, layered, metaphorical and allegorical play. Indeed far too much so for most teams of the confined circuit, and this it proved to be.
Bullets
I was driving on the outskirts of Newtown’ one Sunday afternoon recently when for the first time I encountered a Bullets match.
The group of affable and enthusiastic young men were solicitous to direct my oncoming car safely through, but I quickly pulled in to the grass verge and got out, to signify my interest in the game in hand. With military regimen the contest resumed.
Meadow allocations 60 years ago
The following information was unearthed from the local newspapers of sixty years ago.
Chaff mattresses
It may seem hard to believe nowadays, but in former times even the mattress on the bed was home-made.
The O’Rahilly dies
That night we started making holes in the walls of buildings adjoining the GPO, leading along Henry Street. This proceeded until we observed the enemy at about 3 am – 4 am on Friday morning. At that point we were ordered to cease work.