Photo: Bridie Murphy in Newcastlewest with an infra red camera
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God be with the Days
I don’t know the year.
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Schooldays in the 1960s and 70s
Carmel Hanrahan remembers.
…My dad and Tom O’Halloran were great friends and worked at the same job of Agricultural Inspector. They golfed together in Ballybunion and later played Pitch and Putt in Listowel. My dad tried to get me interested in Pitch and Putt but, no, I didn’t get it. Couldn’t see the point – apologies to all golfers! Bridge was another thing, again, no…. I imagine his thinking was to have some skills for later social life. Thankfully, my work and social life depended on neither Golf nor Bridge. We spent quite a few Sunday afternoons at the Banna Beach Hotel with the O’Halloran clan and then the fight was on to get into the back of Tom’s VW Beetle for the return journey.
School photos were taken annually. I’m fairly certain that Xavier McAuliffe was the photographer but I’m open to correction here. Heads up parents……. those sweet youngsters are perfectly capable of manipulating events to suit their own end. Generally, class photographs were taken as a group at the railings in the play ground with the relevant nun standing at the side. However, our infant’s class (called Babies Class) and senior infants’ photos were taken individually and only siblings could be in the same photo. Hilda Fitzell and myself, having convinced the photographer that we were sisters had ours taken together. Here’s the proof. You have been warned.
Carmel and Hilda
Carmel with her real sister, Mary, taken around the same time. This occasion was Joanna O’Donnell’s birthday party, circa 1967.
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As January Draws to a Close
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A Fact
Tigers are the only predators who prey on adult bears.
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