APHSocial 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…
APH‘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…
APHFreda McGough Source: Athenry A.D.C.s publication The Athenry Journal No.17, 2003 Athenry in the 1950s offered a life of comparative sophistication writes Freda McGough reminiscing on her happy childhood days.…
APHAs related to Bernard Connolly Source: Athenry ADC Publication-The Athenry Journal 1995 I grew up in the medieval town of Athenry in the 1920s, when life was much different than…
APHLike hundreds (and more) of others in the town and parish of Athenry, my first introduction to drama was the “fit-ups”, the travelling companies who would travel from town to…
APHFamily My name is Ned Waldron. My mother was Margaret Madden who was born in 1899. My father, John Waldron, was born in 1897. I was born in 1938…
APHSOURCE: THE ATHENRY JOURNAL, VOL. 2, N0: 1, 1996 It’s not very often that I have an Archbishop kneeling in front of me. In fact, it has only happened once…
APHAS TOLD TO PAUL MCNAMARA SOURCE: ATHENRY ADC’S PUBLICATION THE ATHENRY JOURNAL, VOL. 2, NO. 2, 1996 During all of her 89 years Nora O’Brien (nee Egan) has seen and…
APHAS TOLD TO PAUL MCNAMARA SOURCE: ATHENRY ADC’S PUBLICATION THE ATHENRY JOURNAL, VOL. 1, NO. 2, 1995 Usually it is the people from a rural background that we think…
APHAS TOLD TO BERNARD CONNOLLY SOURCE: ATHENRY ADC’S PUBLICATION THE ATHENRY JOURNAL, VOL. 2, NO. 2, 1996 I was born in 1903, the youngest of 9 children, about 2 miles…