It is now almost eight weeks since I plighted my troth, eight weeks since I cut the nail and a piece of finger off my left index digit. Although the arrangement I had with my Selene I thought could get no better both finger and arrangement have improved considerably. First […]
Archaelogy
Historic Boyle Part 6
We are in the centre of Boyle now at the historic crossroads, to our right is Green Street leading up to the Curlews and the road took by poor old Conyers Clifford in 1599 when he met his end along with a lot of his soldiers, Straight ahead is the […]
Historic Boyle Part 5
So we return up the street to where the Bank of Ireland is today. In 1911 it was the premises of the National Bank. In No 10 lived Aris Manning and his wife Tempe. He was 56 and she was 35. They had two children Dorothy and Norah and a […]
Historic Boyle Part 4
We are well into the town of Boyle on our walking tour of the history of this beautiful place. 7. Main Street We are on Main Street with the main gates of King House behind us. An impressive street acting as the main approach to King House or the Barracks […]
Historic Boyle Part 3
We are still heading into the town of Boyle showing Ma Femme the historic wonders of this small town I adopted many years ago. Ma Femme is quietly amazed at its riches as we trundle along Military Road and past the Garda Barracks, a new construction built about 30 years […]
Historic Boyle Part 2
On my walk into town from our abode at the Wooden Bridge we have come to Shilling Hill, in the townland of Knocknashee, a reasonably modern area, with Boyle Abbey and Abbeytown Bridge on our left. This road and roundabout area was reconstructed about 30 years or more ago when […]
Historic Boyle Part 1
One of the problems of coming from the colonial world is that white people have no history except for the native history of the indigenous people they pushed to one side. That history has no real place in the European mind so they hunt farther afield. They yearn for the […]
Grecian Gropes and Macedonian Meanders-Part 5
We left the once malarial infested Struma Valley and took the long road west to Lake Doiran and Macedonia. 100 years ago this part of present day Macedonia was in Serbia and we crossed the Greek border at6.00pm to find it was only 5.00pm. Although Doiran is on the same […]
The Truth.
I think that the main purpose for every intelligent human being on this planet is to seek the truth whatever and wherever that may be. If we start with the premise that we believe absolutely nothing unless supported by obvious fact we are starting at the right jumping off point. […]
My Awakening.
For 63 years I was a dumb fucker, I believed in everything I had been taught, in everything I had read in the newspapers and everything I had listened to on television and everything and anything a priest told me, he of the ultimate authority. Then in November 2009 came […]