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Wood Quay Dublin 1964Attached FilesSuch is life - Ned Kelly
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Dublin the year I was born 1959, notice no Liberty Hall.Attached FilesSuch is life - Ned Kelly
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And here they are building Liberty HallAttached FilesSuch is life - Ned Kelly
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Commemorations and events on 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1966.
Rashers, unfortunatly I was stuck in london all that year and missed out on the celebrations. By the way there is a brief shot of me uncle Joe in the background of the opening of Kilmanham in the 2nd video.
Great to see this stuff.
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Originally posted by Capt Patch View PostRashers, unfortunatly I was stuck in london all that year and missed out on the celebrations. By the way there is a brief shot of me uncle Joe in the background of the opening of Kilmanham in the 2nd video.
Great to see this stuff.
One great regret I have is that my gran died without me getting all of her stories on tape. She all but totally raised me up to the age of about 14 years, and she used to bring that era to life for me and even as a younger kid with no political understanding whatever I would be enthralled by her stories.... as she spoke I would be there.
I remember the first day she saw me in a (to her) Free State uniform. She screamed when she recognised me as I came up the stairs of her flat and begged me not to "wear their coat" as she put it. Another old man in the flats calmed her down, and reluctantly she accepted that I had joined an army that was no longer a curse in her memories.
It wasn't until the Congo that she began to recognise that this new Ireland was respected in the eyes of the world, and she was proud of that.'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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A new poem written by Pat McCann about Dublin in the early 1950s to a background of Raglan Rd. played on tin whistle by Joe Dunne...and pictures of old Dublin in the good oul days...Let this take ya back....
'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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