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Several hours last Saturday were spent, rather than writing up a weekend post, brushing out the flood in my house. I had turned on the bath and forgotten about it. I stepped off the sofa, to...
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These cold wintry days of mid January, with endless grey skies, made me think of my memories of being cold. I reflected back on my father and his use of the word, founder. Anyway, to set the...
There is a wonderful old black and white photo in mum's archives, of an assembly of people. Unfortunately there was nothing written below or on the backside of the photo. So the question is,...
I recently cleaned up an old photograph of a late 1800's tenant eviction. This proved very timely because around the same time, a lovely old related poem came to light. The poem (no...
Five months ago, in early November 2020, I decided to look more at the British government's excellent 1876 publication: Owners of land of One Acre and Upward, Ireland Return. This publication...