{"id":19655,"date":"2022-01-09T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:43:40","slug":"episode-509-ireland-faces-of-people-i-met-in-1960-and-1965-warm-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19655","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 509 IRELAND — FACES OF PEOPLE I MET IN 1960 AND 1965 — WARM THE SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 509    IRELAND \u2014 FACES OF PEOPLE THAT WARM THE SOUL  1960 AND 1965<\/div>\n

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Kevin Behan and his daughters\u2026They made a stronger like me welcome\u2026and directed me to go see THE QUIET MAN which was<\/div>\n
playing continuously at a Dublin Movie house.   Could Ireland be such a happy place?  For me in 1960 when I was 21 years old that<\/div>\n
is what Ireland became.  A happy place.   Named one of our sons after Kevin.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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So here we are in Ireland once again.  A random collection of pictures I took in 1960 snd 1965.   Professor Aidan Coffey<\/div>\n
has shown so much interest in my Irish experience that I put together this random collection for him.  Then when I looked<\/div>\n
at them I concluded that the readers of my blog might be warned up by these pictures of the past.<\/div>\n

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For those who have never seen my stories of Ireland in 1960 I suggest you search through my blog   alan skeoch.ca<\/a><\/div>\n

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In 1960 I was sent to Bunmahon by a Canadian mining company to see if the ancient copper mines of<\/div>\n
county Waterford merit reopening.  Our survey raised the hopes of many local Irish people only to be dashed<\/div>\n
when it was included that there was too much faulting and too little prospect of profit.  We did, however, have<\/div>\n
a wonderful summer of 1960\u2026.not just me, all of us involved including those who met regularly at Kirwin\u2019s<\/div>\n
pub and the Kennedy family of Bunmahon who did not attend the pub but made our life enjoyable.<\/div>\n

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I spent a big slice of my earnings on 35mm film.  Glad I did so.   Now converted by a lab into digital form<\/div>\n

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This is our son Andrew on one of our many tours of Ireland\u2026picture taken inland from Cliffs of Moher.   When we were robbed in Canada<\/div>\n
we decided to put the insurance money, around $6,000 into a tour with both boys\u2026Kevin and Andrew.  Where?  Ireland of course.<\/div>\n
Once we landed we looked for a pub with Guiness on draft.  Marjorie said \u201cwell I hope this is not going to be a habit on our trip\u201d<\/div>\n
I still remember how the boys looked at me after she spoke.<\/div>\n

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Picture taken on our last visit to ireland around 2005 when daughter in law and granddaughters took us there\u2026<\/div>\n
all other pics are from 1960 or 1965<\/div>\n

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Have several pics of this fellow\u2026and his horse\u2026not all pictures have been found<\/div>\n

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This is Kevin Behan with his daughters.  He looked after me in Dublin for 13 days and made such an impact that we named<\/div>\n
our first son after him\u2026.Kevin Angus Skeoch<\/div>\n

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Ruin on road between Bunmahon and Tramore\u2026where the panel van rented from Mrs. Kennedy stopped dead\u2026had to cramk and crank<\/div>\n
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Marjorie snd curator of the Irish Folk Museum<\/div>\n

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Bunmahon farmer gathering sea weed for fertilizer or kelp for market if sun a market existed.<\/div>\n

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Cute little lady that ran this dry goods store\u2026perhaps in Dungarvin but not sure<\/div>\n

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Alan Skeoch with Turam geophysical console searching for magnetic sources underground.<\/div>\n
In distance is man with the other vertical copper coil.  The farmer who owned this wheat field<\/div>\n
demanded compensation and rightly so but I am not sure how damages were covered.<\/div>\n

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These boys were playing the haunting music titled Cliffs of Moher\u2026or so i remember<\/div>\n

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This crew was clearing Gorse from roadside\u2026a few years later this was done mechanically with a tractor and cutter bar.  Not nearly<\/div>\n
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Now here is an interestng fellow\u2026reading his thoughts not too difficult<\/div>\n
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When the Tinker set up camp near Bunhamon many people kept a close eye on their portable possessions.<\/div>\n

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Pictures from Irish folk museum east of County Waterford.  We are planning to build a cart like this<\/div>\n
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Sometimes our job was rather nasty\u2026and dangerous should a boar or sow not like our trespassing their homes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPISODE 509    IRELAND \u2014 FACES OF PEOPLE THAT WARM THE SOUL  1960 AND 1965 Kevin Behan and his daughters\u2026They made a stronger like me welcome\u2026and directed me to go see THE QUIET MAN which was playing continuously at a Dublin Movie house.   Could Ireland be such a happy place?  For me in 1960 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}