British expats in Ireland with Irish names
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just checked out that house mate, who in their right mind will pay that price? me for one!!! i know the house too, no.2 is the first one, and just at that house is or was a little laneway which lead to the bit of a farmyard where the lads who ran it had a huge big hoss. also i believe a coal yard was there too. and a parade of shops just before the houses had a barbers which i was dragged to once a year for me trim.
as for my cousins, funny thing was,when i got back to where i was staying during the holidays(after the break-in) and told my brother-in-law, he told me he knew who had broken into the car,and took me to smiths villas,off york road, to the house next door to my grannies old house. my cousins!!! i could be forced to tell you their names, ok, it was kane. thomas kane etc. they were the biggest load of thieves and vagabonds in the district bar none.
my brother-in-law joe,took me into the house,telling me to keep quiet(english accent see)while he did the talking to the godfather,thomas.
tom was very upset at robbing from one of his own and gave me some money to pay for the tapes that were stolen. found out later that his son,who had broken into the car,threw the tapes away over the railway line cos he didnt like johnny cash!!!
they were burnt out a few years later and went to london where they did very well indeed in the drugs trade. god bless free enterprise. got on facebook by mistake the other day and looked for blackrock, you should see the info that is on there, it may be of some use to you. i only hope property prices don't rise too much in the near future cos it could cost us our move(if we ever sell over here that is). maybe if i could find out where tommy kane is i could approach him for a million or two????? ole.
as for my cousins, funny thing was,when i got back to where i was staying during the holidays(after the break-in) and told my brother-in-law, he told me he knew who had broken into the car,and took me to smiths villas,off york road, to the house next door to my grannies old house. my cousins!!! i could be forced to tell you their names, ok, it was kane. thomas kane etc. they were the biggest load of thieves and vagabonds in the district bar none.
my brother-in-law joe,took me into the house,telling me to keep quiet(english accent see)while he did the talking to the godfather,thomas.
tom was very upset at robbing from one of his own and gave me some money to pay for the tapes that were stolen. found out later that his son,who had broken into the car,threw the tapes away over the railway line cos he didnt like johnny cash!!!
they were burnt out a few years later and went to london where they did very well indeed in the drugs trade. god bless free enterprise. got on facebook by mistake the other day and looked for blackrock, you should see the info that is on there, it may be of some use to you. i only hope property prices don't rise too much in the near future cos it could cost us our move(if we ever sell over here that is). maybe if i could find out where tommy kane is i could approach him for a million or two????? ole.
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Have you seen this Mick
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Ive found a few of my family from 1911 including my grandparents in City Quay to my other grandparents in Belfast. Very interesting. That should keep you out of mischief for a while
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Ive found a few of my family from 1911 including my grandparents in City Quay to my other grandparents in Belfast. Very interesting. That should keep you out of mischief for a while
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just what i need to keep myself alert. i am going to search out my grandad and see what i can find. he was a great old fella,used to be head gardner on a huge estate in wicklow. thanks for the post.
thinking over the price of property in blackrock,wonder how much one of the flatlets in st.annes sq.would fetch today? i mean in my day when we lived there,you could nearly call them slums, not too far off. we never thought of them as bad,used to love sliding down the outside of the top terrace to the bottom. last time i saw the place(the year of the car burglary i call it) there were cars parked all over the place in the square. and nice ones too.
i am searching loads of engines for news of any of the lads who i used to mess around with in the 50's before i left the blessed isle for the land which will not be named!! mind you i loved it in manchester too, lived next door to uniteds ground,used to take bikes in on match days,six pence a go,if the mother wasn't in,we would fill the living room with them. no-one had a car in those days.
when you think back on how it was in those days to how it is now,it is nearly unbelievable to me how both countries have changed,and certainly not for the better. don't get me into my victor meldew mode,mate,there will be no stopping me. thanks again. if i remember anything interesting(miracle there) i will post you.
thinking over the price of property in blackrock,wonder how much one of the flatlets in st.annes sq.would fetch today? i mean in my day when we lived there,you could nearly call them slums, not too far off. we never thought of them as bad,used to love sliding down the outside of the top terrace to the bottom. last time i saw the place(the year of the car burglary i call it) there were cars parked all over the place in the square. and nice ones too.
i am searching loads of engines for news of any of the lads who i used to mess around with in the 50's before i left the blessed isle for the land which will not be named!! mind you i loved it in manchester too, lived next door to uniteds ground,used to take bikes in on match days,six pence a go,if the mother wasn't in,we would fill the living room with them. no-one had a car in those days.
when you think back on how it was in those days to how it is now,it is nearly unbelievable to me how both countries have changed,and certainly not for the better. don't get me into my victor meldew mode,mate,there will be no stopping me. thanks again. if i remember anything interesting(miracle there) i will post you.
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Yea she works just next to St Anne's in a new development off Sweetman's Ave. Its next to the An Post depo and the entrance in is off Carysfort. There's some very old cottages across from their new building. Love it round there. My Belfast grandfather used to drive the 7 through there in the 50's/60's. My dad is from Bath Ave, Sandymount and my mum is from down by Francis St and The Coombe. My dad might remember some of the people and places you are talking about, hes 79 now. Believe it or not, he gave up 65 years of Senior Service fags last summer. He's like a cross between Victor Meldrew and Arnold Schwarzenegger, we wish he would start again! My lot are real Dubs where as my wife's lot are Mayo and Tyrone.
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I knew a family of hughes from Belfast, chummed with an anne and bronagh hughes lived at finaghy, now I think the parents live in Donegal, I think they had a pools win years ago, I remember the mothers name was Maureen, can't remember all their names now, a lovely family, andy relative????
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just what i need to keep myself alert. i am going to search out my grandad and see what i can find. he was a great old fella,used to be head gardner on a huge estate in wicklow. thanks for the post.
thinking over the price of property in blackrock,wonder how much one of the flatlets in st.annes sq.would fetch today? i mean in my day when we lived there,you could nearly call them slums, not too far off. we never thought of them as bad,used to love sliding down the outside of the top terrace to the bottom. last time i saw the place(the year of the car burglary i call it) there were cars parked all over the place in the square. and nice ones too.
i am searching loads of engines for news of any of the lads who i used to mess around with in the 50's before i left the blessed isle for the land which will not be named!! mind you i loved it in manchester too, lived next door to uniteds ground,used to take bikes in on match days,six pence a go,if the mother wasn't in,we would fill the living room with them. no-one had a car in those days.
when you think back on how it was in those days to how it is now,it is nearly unbelievable to me how both countries have changed,and certainly not for the better. don't get me into my victor meldew mode,mate,there will be no stopping me. thanks again. if i remember anything interesting(miracle there) i will post you.
thinking over the price of property in blackrock,wonder how much one of the flatlets in st.annes sq.would fetch today? i mean in my day when we lived there,you could nearly call them slums, not too far off. we never thought of them as bad,used to love sliding down the outside of the top terrace to the bottom. last time i saw the place(the year of the car burglary i call it) there were cars parked all over the place in the square. and nice ones too.
i am searching loads of engines for news of any of the lads who i used to mess around with in the 50's before i left the blessed isle for the land which will not be named!! mind you i loved it in manchester too, lived next door to uniteds ground,used to take bikes in on match days,six pence a go,if the mother wasn't in,we would fill the living room with them. no-one had a car in those days.
when you think back on how it was in those days to how it is now,it is nearly unbelievable to me how both countries have changed,and certainly not for the better. don't get me into my victor meldew mode,mate,there will be no stopping me. thanks again. if i remember anything interesting(miracle there) i will post you.
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welcome to this thread mate. londonuck was despairing of getting anything going on here. i try to keep his spirits up(gin,vodka,whisky,brandy, you know what i mean??).
now lets get down to the nitty gritty. this family who won the pools, i am sure i am related to them, and if i am not, then i should be!!. where do they live, and i will send a begging letter and share. 'nuff said.
where abouts in the north are you from? little bit of info here:- i was born in blackrock in 1944, moved to england in 1958,joined the navy in 1960,left in 1971,lived in most parts of england until moving to spain about nine years ago now. am trying to sell up and move back to the "holy land".
the reason i ask about the north is that i did three tours in derry, hms sea eagle. absolutely loved the place to bits,the people were the nicest,livliest,and friendliest bunch of nutters i have ever met. the lads from sea eagle were treated as favourite sons,because the majority of them were irish,both north and south,and quite a few of them married local girls.of course when the troubles started,it changed but not by much. i met the rev ian and the blessed bernadette devlin,they came to the camp once when we opened a bar there and invited all the locals to the dance on a sunday(when everything else was closed). the eagles nest it was called and i met a girl in sheffield in the late 80's who used to go there and she said it was the best time for her and her mates.
during my time in sea eagle,the second tour if i remember correctly, we had an excercise at sea and i went aboard one of the RED HAND squadron, hms hardy i believe,for the exercise. when it was over,it was too rough to go back up the foyle to drop me off so they took me to greenoch,left me with 400 cigarettes in my handbag(!!!),no money,and said best of luck mate. i was with a fella called darryl wiley who called himself elvis cos lhe looked nothing like elvis. anyhoo,we had to sell our fags on greenoch station to get our fare,took the train to glasgow for the ferry to belfast. we had about ten bob between us and went into a dirty dark little bar on the docks for a half between us. it was full of little old scottish dears and they were over the moon with us(we were in uniform). treated us like lords and bought us drinks galore.
we staggered out in time to catch the ferry,ten bob still in pocket,when darryl spied some young americans backpacking. he told me he would get them into a game of poker and make our ten bob into ten quid. he was back in fifteen seconds,sans ten bob. great days.
like you said, wish they were back and that is not just nostalgia,it really was the best of times. take care mate......
now lets get down to the nitty gritty. this family who won the pools, i am sure i am related to them, and if i am not, then i should be!!. where do they live, and i will send a begging letter and share. 'nuff said.
where abouts in the north are you from? little bit of info here:- i was born in blackrock in 1944, moved to england in 1958,joined the navy in 1960,left in 1971,lived in most parts of england until moving to spain about nine years ago now. am trying to sell up and move back to the "holy land".
the reason i ask about the north is that i did three tours in derry, hms sea eagle. absolutely loved the place to bits,the people were the nicest,livliest,and friendliest bunch of nutters i have ever met. the lads from sea eagle were treated as favourite sons,because the majority of them were irish,both north and south,and quite a few of them married local girls.of course when the troubles started,it changed but not by much. i met the rev ian and the blessed bernadette devlin,they came to the camp once when we opened a bar there and invited all the locals to the dance on a sunday(when everything else was closed). the eagles nest it was called and i met a girl in sheffield in the late 80's who used to go there and she said it was the best time for her and her mates.
during my time in sea eagle,the second tour if i remember correctly, we had an excercise at sea and i went aboard one of the RED HAND squadron, hms hardy i believe,for the exercise. when it was over,it was too rough to go back up the foyle to drop me off so they took me to greenoch,left me with 400 cigarettes in my handbag(!!!),no money,and said best of luck mate. i was with a fella called darryl wiley who called himself elvis cos lhe looked nothing like elvis. anyhoo,we had to sell our fags on greenoch station to get our fare,took the train to glasgow for the ferry to belfast. we had about ten bob between us and went into a dirty dark little bar on the docks for a half between us. it was full of little old scottish dears and they were over the moon with us(we were in uniform). treated us like lords and bought us drinks galore.
we staggered out in time to catch the ferry,ten bob still in pocket,when darryl spied some young americans backpacking. he told me he would get them into a game of poker and make our ten bob into ten quid. he was back in fifteen seconds,sans ten bob. great days.
like you said, wish they were back and that is not just nostalgia,it really was the best of times. take care mate......
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welcome to this thread mate. londonuck was despairing of getting anything going on here. i try to keep his spirits up(gin,vodka,whisky,brandy, you know what i mean??).
now lets get down to the nitty gritty. this family who won the pools, i am sure i am related to them, and if i am not, then i should be!!. where do they live, and i will send a begging letter and share. 'nuff said.
where abouts in the north are you from? little bit of info here:- i was born in blackrock in 1944, moved to england in 1958,joined the navy in 1960,left in 1971,lived in most parts of england until moving to spain about nine years ago now. am trying to sell up and move back to the "holy land".
the reason i ask about the north is that i did three tours in derry, hms sea eagle. absolutely loved the place to bits,the people were the nicest,livliest,and friendliest bunch of nutters i have ever met. the lads from sea eagle were treated as favourite sons,because the majority of them were irish,both north and south,and quite a few of them married local girls.of course when the troubles started,it changed but not by much. i met the rev ian and the blessed bernadette devlin,they came to the camp once when we opened a bar there and invited all the locals to the dance on a sunday(when everything else was closed). the eagles nest it was called and i met a girl in sheffield in the late 80's who used to go there and she said it was the best time for her and her mates.
during my time in sea eagle,the second tour if i remember correctly, we had an excercise at sea and i went aboard one of the RED HAND squadron, hms hardy i believe,for the exercise. when it was over,it was too rough to go back up the foyle to drop me off so they took me to greenoch,left me with 400 cigarettes in my handbag(!!!),no money,and said best of luck mate. i was with a fella called darryl wiley who called himself elvis cos lhe looked nothing like elvis. anyhoo,we had to sell our fags on greenoch station to get our fare,took the train to glasgow for the ferry to belfast. we had about ten bob between us and went into a dirty dark little bar on the docks for a half between us. it was full of little old scottish dears and they were over the moon with us(we were in uniform). treated us like lords and bought us drinks galore.
we staggered out in time to catch the ferry,ten bob still in pocket,when darryl spied some young americans backpacking. he told me he would get them into a game of poker and make our ten bob into ten quid. he was back in fifteen seconds,sans ten bob. great days.
like you said, wish they were back and that is not just nostalgia,it really was the best of times. take care mate......
now lets get down to the nitty gritty. this family who won the pools, i am sure i am related to them, and if i am not, then i should be!!. where do they live, and i will send a begging letter and share. 'nuff said.
where abouts in the north are you from? little bit of info here:- i was born in blackrock in 1944, moved to england in 1958,joined the navy in 1960,left in 1971,lived in most parts of england until moving to spain about nine years ago now. am trying to sell up and move back to the "holy land".
the reason i ask about the north is that i did three tours in derry, hms sea eagle. absolutely loved the place to bits,the people were the nicest,livliest,and friendliest bunch of nutters i have ever met. the lads from sea eagle were treated as favourite sons,because the majority of them were irish,both north and south,and quite a few of them married local girls.of course when the troubles started,it changed but not by much. i met the rev ian and the blessed bernadette devlin,they came to the camp once when we opened a bar there and invited all the locals to the dance on a sunday(when everything else was closed). the eagles nest it was called and i met a girl in sheffield in the late 80's who used to go there and she said it was the best time for her and her mates.
during my time in sea eagle,the second tour if i remember correctly, we had an excercise at sea and i went aboard one of the RED HAND squadron, hms hardy i believe,for the exercise. when it was over,it was too rough to go back up the foyle to drop me off so they took me to greenoch,left me with 400 cigarettes in my handbag(!!!),no money,and said best of luck mate. i was with a fella called darryl wiley who called himself elvis cos lhe looked nothing like elvis. anyhoo,we had to sell our fags on greenoch station to get our fare,took the train to glasgow for the ferry to belfast. we had about ten bob between us and went into a dirty dark little bar on the docks for a half between us. it was full of little old scottish dears and they were over the moon with us(we were in uniform). treated us like lords and bought us drinks galore.
we staggered out in time to catch the ferry,ten bob still in pocket,when darryl spied some young americans backpacking. he told me he would get them into a game of poker and make our ten bob into ten quid. he was back in fifteen seconds,sans ten bob. great days.
like you said, wish they were back and that is not just nostalgia,it really was the best of times. take care mate......
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I knew a family of hughes from Belfast, chummed with an anne and bronagh hughes lived at finaghy, now I think the parents live in Donegal, I think they had a pools win years ago, I remember the mothers name was Maureen, can't remember all their names now, a lovely family, andy relative????
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just a thought, they did come from a big family so you never know stranger things have happened
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er,denise, the number seven bus used to go past our house!!!! maybe we are all related?????