Dec 15, 2024
‘The children today are like how Kings and Queens used to be years ago,’ says May. ‘They are brought to school and picked up after. They wear lovely clothes and they go to lovely schools. I don’t know anything about the teachers now but they used to murder us!’ Become...
Jun 25, 2024
No man has a more encyclopaedic knowledge of the sport than Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh. He appears to know who won every championship, and the accompanying scores, since the GAA was founded 126 years ago. ‘Well, I keep an eye on things, he says bashfully. Become a...
Apr 11, 2024
Huge thanks to John Glynn for the short video of the late Johnny Byrne which we posted to the Vanishing Ireland Facebook group here. ***** Born on 5 July 1926, he was the third of five children of Willie Byrne, a blacksmith, and his wife Winnie of...
Apr 7, 2024
The jury is still out as to whether or not the corridors of Mount St Joseph became any noisier after Vatican II. The return of the voice had to be weighed against the ever diminishing number of monks walking through the monastery every passing year. ‘Very few enter...
Feb 2, 2024
Alex Findlater, who died at the age of 81 after a riding accident in Jaipur, was one of the most determined, fun-loving, charitable men of his generation. It was in his blood. As chronicled in his immensely readable book, ‘Findlater – The Story of a Dublin Merchant...
