Unfortunately today’s text is a long one, but persevere and I hope its strands make sense in the end. After yesterday’s posting I received a very powerful e-mail from a lady, Katy Attwood, an ex-Bedian who graduated from Oxford University and has since carved out a successful career in the […]
St Bede’s
St. Bede’s – We Are Beached In Shallow Water, We Have No Paddle.
The latest news to come out of St Bede’s, sent to me by one of the disaffected masses, is a little hard to swallow but it seems that Mr Daniel Kearney the headmaster has come up with a brainwave. He cannot make up the numbers for his first year in […]
St Bede’s – The End Of The Creek Is In Sight, The Tub Is Floating.
I have just had a long and very frightening e-mail from someone in the know at St Bede’s College in Manchester explaining the present atmosphere and Daniel Kearney’s erratic behaviour. It seems that things, instead of improving from the all time low of last year when Kearney’s qualities as head […]
The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 4
PART 4 Well for the following couple of days, the beginning of last week actually, I wondered round in a daze, teaching by remote control. I don’t remember half the things we covered but I suppose my notes will tell me and I had lost touch with any kind of […]
The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 3
THE MUSIC TEACHER – PART 3 At the end of the lesson, he stood up and said “thank you, Miss” and left and do you know, except for glimpses of him in the playground and on the corridor that was the last I saw of him. He did not turn […]
The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 1
Just after Christmas this year I wrote the draft of a play because I was asked to but now is not required. It is a semi-fictitious account of what was going on at St Bede’s College in the period I was there 1957-1963. It was written as a one woman […]
St. Bede’s College, Manchester – Down The Creek – Up The Tub.
Since June 2011 I have been saying that because of the uncomfortably undue haste with which the previous headmaster at St Bede’s College in Manchester was relieved of his responsibilities at the school and with the arrival of the inadequate Mr Daniel Kearney, appearing over the hill like the US […]
Dave’s Funeral Mass
Before I start this posting I would just like to thank all of you for posting your comments and sending me e-mails about Dave McGarry, your recollections and your thoughts. They came from Australia, America, all over Europe, including England and Ireland and it just shows how well the man […]
Fr Dave McGarry RIP
Fr Dave McGarry is dead. How I hate writing those words but it was coming up and I was steeling myself for the final news. I was on the platform of Connolly Station in Dublin, having caught the Saturday morning early train, when my wife, Helen, rang to tell me […]
What Was It That Made Me A Catholic?
Well it was nothing really, just the fact of being born of my mother and encouraged by my father. My mother was Catholicism personified, of North Manchester Irish stock, she came from Corpus Christi parish, off Oldham Road. Prior to the 1914-18 war every other house in that district was […]