Frank Coyne’s Memories – Part 4
Courting Mary, Wedding Bells, A Yellow-Pack Honeymoon and the Home-Coming Mary and Frank Mary (right) on her Wedding Morning with sister, Rosie Courting Mary and drifting together Around this…
Courting Mary, Wedding Bells, A Yellow-Pack Honeymoon and the Home-Coming Mary and Frank Mary (right) on her Wedding Morning with sister, Rosie Courting Mary and drifting together Around this…
Social Life in the 1950s/1960s, No ‘Hanky Panky’ and “Respectable Ladies Do Not Sit on Gentlemen’s Knees’’. Subsistence farming and renewed acquaintances Meanwhile, back at the ranch,-to quote the…
‘Hand-me-down’ Clothes, Mother’s Smuggling Operation, Farm Yard Milk, John Joe White’s Bakery Lack of Money and repairing boots While we had an abundance of food, money or the lack of…
Frank Coyne The Coyne Family Front (l-R): Mary, Margaret, Bernadette and Ann. Back (l-r): Joe, Peter, Carmel, Frank and Tim Insets: Pat and Nora ______________________________________________ Family Ancestors My name is…
The author, Eoin Masters (real name Séan Masterson, son of Gárda Sergeant Masterson), in the first section of this book gives an account of the first seven years of his…
by Martin O’Grady Source: Athenry ADC’s publication -The Athenry Journal. No, 20: 2005 “Around the house and mind the dresser”…. Is a familiar Irish phrase and, of course, older folk…
Musician from Coldwood By Gerry and Mary Mulvihill Source: ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal, Vol. 1, 1995. “Music, oh how faint. how weak, Language fades before thy spell, Why…
By Gerry Mulvihill Source: ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996. The small townland of Taiquin or Tigh Da Conna, set about six miles from the…
Source: Athenry ADC Publication – The Athenry Journal No. 2, 1995 On September I4th 1972, The Swingtime Aces gave its final performance in The Carousel Club, Manchester. There ended fifteen…