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Posted on May 10, 2019July 16, 2018

76th Anniversary of the Ballymanus Mine Disaster, 10th May 1943

It is 76 years since 19 men, including my mother’s uncle, were killed by a mine washed up at Mullaghduff / Ballymanus in the Rosses. Here is a post on…

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Posted on July 5, 2018July 4, 2018

Submissions to “Miscellanea: A Transdimensional Library”

I have previously noted that online publications that do me the honour of publishing me tend to go out of existence. Another example was Miscellanea: A Transdimensional Library. It was…

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Posted on July 4, 2018

Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Bert Gallagher

Aphorisms (for an age beyond Aphorisms), Or, Reflections of an obsolete headshrinker by Bert Gallagher MB BCh BAO MRCPsych Published in what the author insists be referred to as the…

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Posted on April 2, 2018April 3, 2018

Tory Island, poitín, and prohibition

Thanks to Rory Naughton who has brought this family history on the Clare Co Council library page. John Cunningham gives an interesting and entertaining account of his father Michael’s life…

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Posted on January 13, 2018August 30, 2018

Hearing secret harmonies in Dunfanaghy – Arnold Bax in Donegal, from “Farewell My Youth”

(edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of the Irish revolution,…

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Posted on May 3, 2016

Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010

This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…

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Posted on May 2, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. Extract 4. Nthposition. 2010

“When society was organised along rational lines, it is surprising how many people were left behind.” That line is striking on re-reading this stories. I am not sure how well my…

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Posted on May 1, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. Extract 3. From Nthposition, 2010

Full story here. and Extract 1 here and Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010   “Dr Gallagher now my now self would be grateful to your now self if my now self could…

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