On the John B. Keane Road
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Jimmy Hickey among his Dancers
Jimmy Hickey has given a lifetime to doing and teaching the thing he loves. Here he is with pupils of Presentation Primary School, many of whom are 70 years younger than him. Jimmy has taught their parents and in some cases grandparents. He has passed on the steps and the old figure dances and is as passionate today about Irish dancing as he was when he himself attended Liam Dineen’s Saturday dancing classes in Scoil Realt na Maidine.
I am so lucky to call this genius my friend.
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St. Michael’s Class of 2024
From the school’s website
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Great Houses in the Coolard area…
from Maurice O’Mahony’s History of Coolard School
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Yeats in Melancholy Mood
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A Fact
This is, in fact, a definition from my Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
to abscond…to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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