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The needs of the mission are enormous. It is made up of over 100 villages spread over a very wide area of rough and hazardous terrain. The area has the unenviable distinction of having the highest rainfall in the world. The mission’s needs and difficulties are unending because of the high rainfall, and very often some hard-won gain is washed away in a matter of hours by the torrential floods and they have to start all over again from scratch. They need all the help they can get. All down the years we have received tremendous support from our bingo patrons who faithfully, week in week out, contribute their small coins to our mission fund. We have a few supporters who place their small coins in a jar or other containers and give them to us every so often for the missions. It is surprising how these contributions add up over a period of a year. We are appealing to the charity of ‘NewsFour’ readers to follow the example of our existing supporters and pass on their small coins to us to help the poorest of the poor, people in direst need of our help. Contributions can be handed in to our premises on Irishtown Road any time they are open. Just give them to anyone using the premises at the time and they will pass them on to the committee, or you can give them to any member of the branch or any member of the Active Retirement Association you know, we will get them one way or another. Please respond to our appeal with all the generosity you can muster. Your reward will be the constant prayers of the poor people you will be helping and of course Almighty God will bless and reward you for your charity.
Dear Madam Editor The main two I forgot was Birk’s Black shop on the corner of Thorncastle Street also Peter Granger’s. Peter went all round Ringsend selling turf, vegetables and fruit. I saw the letter from Sean Donnelly who was a great part of my life as his family also lived in the coast guard station as I did. The map from Hugh Egan was great. Great to see you found the owner of the lost picture. Also loved photo of May Purdy whom I went to school with. She knows me as Josie Campbell. When I see all their photos and letters of goings on in Ringsend I don’t feel so far away anymore so thank you for your wonderful paper– a blessing to people like me so far from home I would really like to say a big hello to a dear friend of mine whom I heard is still living in Ringsend. We were great pals, her name is Margie Tyrell.
Dear Madam Editor, I remember Halton’s well and the story doing the rounds at the time, which informed us that if you wanted to see Mr Halton you would find him in or between one of the ‘North’s’. However I also remember when the shop belonged to a Warren Gillatt and later again when it became a branch of Lipton’s. The name ‘Pay and Take’ also springs to mind, but I cannot focus on it at the moment, perhaps someone else can help. I enjoyed the map and remembered most of the shops marked thereon but have no recollection of the Barber’s shop in Bridge Street so Hugh’s memory appears to be a little older than mine. I also remember well Ducky Austin’s where I swapped many a comic and in contrast to Ducky Austin’s where the smell of paraffin oil and cats was sometimes unbearable I remember well the overpowering smell of perfume in Kitty Whelan’s clothes shop. Smells in Thorncastle Street however were not in short supply in my day, there was also the strong smell of fish from the dealers’ stalls on Wednesdays and Fridays which were usually to be seen sited outside St Patrick’s. Then we had the lovely smell of fish and chips from Ferrari’s and to cap it all the terrible smell from the Irish Products factory at the end of the Road. I went to school with the late Cecil and Jimmy Driver and in recent times my youngest son worked in both Castle Stores in Thorncastle Street and their other branch in Bath Street where once stood Coady’s and Brendan O’Reilly’s. Simpson’s Lane in Irishtown which was situated to the left of O’Reilly’s shop was never referred to as such, instead it was commonly known as Reilly’s Lane because of Brendan’s shop. I was reared in a tenement house which stood on the left hand corner of that lane at the Pembroke Street end. No 7 to be exact and the owner of same was I believe a Mrs Simpson. On a point of interest I would also mention another lane in Irishtown that was never ever named and it too was associated with a Reilly family and that was the lane where Ben Reilly had his vegetable and fuel stores, but I always knew it as ‘me granny’s lane’ because she lived in 151 Rosary Terrace, Stella Gardens and the lane was a short cut to her house. \ Dear Madam Editor, As your publication is in the area I was enquiring if you might have some further information or if you might have any interesting photos, tales etc relating to Lansdowne Road stadium and its history in the area. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact me in relation to any interesting info. dcoy design, 14 fitzwilliam quay, dublin 4 www.dcoy.ie t: 353 1 6686335 f: 353 1 6687683
Dear Madam Editor Walkers ran the Post Office and I palled around for a while with their son, Richard, until I departed to join the Merchant Navy in 1951. My recollection of Bridge Street at that time is that there were two Nelson’s shop’s, Joe Nelson was a grocer and he had a small butchery department to the rear. The Head Assistant there in my day was Joe Whelan. Joe Nelson’s brother, Patrick I think, had a butchers shop further along. The shop between Walker’s Post Office and the pub was, I think, a sort of second hand shop. My memory tells me that there were two shops on the left coming down from the bridge and before you reach the Church grounds, one of which sold papers. When I was last home I walked down the bridge and sure enough, the window sills and the door steps of these two shops are preserved in the wall for all to see. Mea Culpa to my cousin Mairead Lavigne, nee Wall, in Canada. It was Handies not Healy’s on the righthand corner of Fitzwilliam Street which, I am given to understand, later became Clynes. Can any of your readers recall Jimmy Waddock’s greencrocery horse and cart delivering around the area. I s at on the cart outside our house in Derrynane Gardens. I managed to fall down between the horse and the cart which action caused the horse to move forward a stride or two. The result of this was that a wheel went over my left wrist causing a small skin burst that is visible to this day. Thankfully the smack across the ear that I got from the Ma for being so stupid left no mark. Keep up the good work, us exiles depend on you to keep us young. Above: The remains of the two shops by Ringsend Bridge can still be clearly seen in the wall. |
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Dear Madam Editor