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John ArnoldEvening Echo |
Walking slowly along the path, looking at all the names, all the Irish surnames, was a strange experience. I could have been at home in practically...
Can you really put a curse on someone, or on a family or a parish, a team or a whole county? Good question that, especially now in the after-glow of...
I’m not sure where I first heard of or read the Irish phrase ‘áit iargúlta’ - maybe it was in Seadna by An t-Athair Peadar. Anyhow, is cuma,...
‘How do you mean -taking books to school? Did ye actually have real books made of paper in the house and went to a real school building-like we saw...
I was only ten when the train to Fermoy from Mallow and on to Waterford ceased to operate. So ’twill be 60 years next March since the last train...
Someone was trying to persuade me lately that I sang an incorrect version of one of my very own favourite Elvis songs. We had a heated argument, and...
One of the most famous paintings by the Italian artist Caravaggio is ‘The Calling of Saint Matthew’. Painted around the year 1600 for the...
Talking to children lately about money and cash, and notes and coins, you know, I felt as though they thought I was living close to Stone Age times....
A 14-year-old girl walks through the fields on the farm with the sheepdog. She knows that these same fields and this farm could one day be hers. She...
Now in my 70th year, every now and then I try to remember what I first remember! That may sound strange, and maybe it is; but it’s hard sometimes to...
There’s a famous story told about Daniel O’Connell and a man breaking stones by the roadside in 1829. The Liberator was heading home to Derrynane...
There was a huge crowd at the Dungourney versus Lisgoold hurling game in Castlelyons last Sunday. After a rip-roaring match, the men from Jamesey...
I find it hard to imagine that Tom Scanlan is dead over 30 years. Tom was 75 when he died suddenly in June, 1994 - at the time I was 37. Though close...
Well, people are just great, aren’t they? Ah yes, I cried in Croke Park last Sunday. My tears were not for the Cork team -they came to Dublin to win...
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