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| 678.1 | Wild Rose of Manor | DUB01::TINNELLY | EIS Dublin Ireland | Wed Nov 15 1989 07:52 | 25 |
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Frank,
If your Grandfather was still around, he would probably be delighted
to see that things in Leitrim have not changed very much since the
turn of the century. :-)
I travel up and down to Manorhamilton to a customer site quite
regularly, and I am usually queried by the British Army as to where
am I coming from. I usually reply the Health Board in Manorhamilton,
to which I usally get a reply saying "I didnt know they had electricity
never mind Health Boards in Leitrim. The Irish Humor is rubbing
off on these guys I suppose. Then again...
THe highlight of the year in Leitrim seems to be a festival called
The Wild Rose of Manorhamilton, in which the keenest local lass
gets picked to promote the county... There isnt a bed to be found
in the locality around for weeks, as D_OSullivan (a keen Celt noter)
will tell you.
It definitely is a county that tends to go unnoticed from a tourists
point, for me it is one of the nicest counties in Ireland. It still
has that beauty, that is very difficult to describe.
regards peter.
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| 678.2 | | DUB02::POCONNELL | O'Conan the Conniver | Wed Nov 15 1989 08:30 | 9 |
| > The Wild Rose of Manorhamilton, in which the keenest local lass
> gets picked to promote the county... There isnt a bed to be found
> in the locality around for weeks, as D_OSullivan (a keen Celt noter)
> will tell you.
I've heard of the 'casting couch', but this is ridiculous!
:-)
Pat.
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| 678.3 | | USWAV1::CHAPLAIN | | Thu Nov 16 1989 21:30 | 15 |
| re .1
Well, if it's a place that the tourists "conveniently" forget,
then it sounds like the place for me. I always thought that traveling
in Ireland should be done while all the American tourists were either
cooking on the beach or attending the neighborhood "Ooh Look At Me"
festival. If/when I go, it will be a DEFINITE consideration.
As for being "queried" by the British Army...(where's the moderator?)
...well, they'd just better have a sense of humor that would put
W C Fields to shame. :-)
Frank
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| 678.4 | Ask them if you can have an 8x10 sent to you later ... | STEREO::BURNS | Up the Banner | Fri Nov 17 1989 07:30 | 10 |
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Frank:
Make sure you smile for the camera, as your being "Greeted" at the
border ..... :-)
keVin
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| 678.5 | | USWAV1::CHAPLAIN | | Sun Nov 19 1989 22:46 | 7 |
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Kivin, all they'd probably get on the photograph is one singular,
unadorned digit. That or a great big MOON. Or maybe I'll just
give the sentry a great big KISS and stick a flower in his muzzle.
:-)
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| 678.6 | | SALEM::CULBERT | Free Michael Culbert | Mon Nov 20 1989 10:34 | 9 |
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Frank,
Boy oh boy are you in for a suprise. 8*)
Visiting day is Sunday 8*)
paddy
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| 678.7 | Re: Tourists | GENIE::KRINER | tanstaafl | Mon Nov 20 1989 18:00 | 10 |
| Re .3
> I always thought that traveling
> in Ireland should be done while all the American tourists were either
> cooking on the beach or attending the neighborhood "Ooh Look At Me"
> festival.
Or better yet, when they are still in America!
Paul
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| 678.8 | | USWAV1::CHAPLAIN | | Tue Nov 21 1989 07:19 | 10 |
| re .7
S'what I meant. I always thought it might be fun traveling during
the month of...oh, say March. ROTTEN weather, I know, but ya kin
just partake of all the yabberin', frothy indoor activities...at
least 'til closing time.
:-)
Frank
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| 678.10 | Blue rinse brigade | DUB01::BRENNAN_M | Dulce et Decorum est | Tue Nov 21 1989 09:03 | 10 |
| Well, you would be in good company.
All the U.S. school bands - over for St Paddy's day. They come together
with their parents,ants and various other attachments. I must say
thou that I enjoy watching them freezing to death in their skimpy
outfits.
I am normally well clothed in hot Whiskey at the parade.
MBr
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| 678.11 | A Leitrim question | GENIE::KRINER | tanstaafl | Tue Nov 21 1989 10:12 | 9 |
| Well, since this topic is about Leitrim, I think my question belongs
in here. I am learning a song (_My County Leitrim Queen_) that makes
reference to "Edward's town". I am assuming that it is in Leitrim,
but don't find a town by that name on any of my maps of Ireland, so
I figure it is some sort of allusion. Does anybody have any idea
what town it might be?
Thanx,
Paul
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| 678.12 | ? | DUB02::POCONNELL | O'Conan the Conniver | Tue Nov 21 1989 12:21 | 7 |
| > in here. I am learning a song (_My County Leitrim Queen_) that makes
> reference to "Edward's town". I am assuming that it is in Leitrim,
*************
Are you sure it's not Edgeworthstown?
Pat
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| 678.13 | | USWAV1::CHAPLAIN | | Tue Nov 21 1989 12:44 | 9 |
| re .10
Oh yeah, I forgot...St Patrick's Day.
Oh well, it'll have to be January then. No one in their right
mind would even DREAM of visiting Ireland in January. I mean, even
the fish migrate south, right?
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| 678.14 | Whose town is it, anyway? | GENIE::KRINER | tanstaafl | Tue Nov 21 1989 15:31 | 10 |
| Re: .12
No, I'm not sure that it's not Edgeworthstown. At first I thought they
were saying "Edgeworth town", but, after listening again, it sounds much
more like "Edward's town". I'll have to listen again tonight. (I'm
getting the song off a tape, you see, the words aren't written down.)
Is there an Edgeworthstown?
Paul
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| 678.15 | MOSTRIM | TRIBES::CREAN | You remind me of the TS11 | Wed Nov 22 1989 05:04 | 2 |
| I believe Edgeworthstown is now called Mostrim
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| 678.16 | | DUB02::POCONNELL | O'Conan the Conniver | Wed Nov 22 1989 07:16 | 12 |
| > I believe Edgeworthstown is now called Mostrim
That's it. Mostrim doesn't scan in the quite the same way, for 'poetic'
purposes.
:-)
Wasn't Edgworthstown named after one of the more 'enlightened'
landlords? His daughter was the novelist Maria Edgeworth, of _Castle
Rackrent_ fame.
Pat.
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| 678.17 | Thanx | GENIE::KRINER | tanstaafl | Wed Nov 22 1989 08:04 | 4 |
| Mostrim, huh? You're right about that name for poetic purposes.
Anyway, thanks for the help. I like to know of what I sing!
Paul
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| 678.18 | The More O'Ferrall affair | TRIBES::CREAN | You remind me of the TS11 | Thu Nov 23 1989 03:49 | 18 |
| Re -.2
I'm not so sure about enlightened landlords.....all I
know about Mostrim is that in 1938 there was a dispute
between the local landlord and the tenants, over a hundred
of whom were threatened with eviction. The dispute became
extremely bitter and led eventually to a 'land agent',
Colonel More O'Ferrall, being shot dead. The assassins were
never identified. The only witness, a student called Michael
Scott who later became a fasionable architect and the initiator
of the James Joyce museum and who is now dead, declined to
identify any of the suspects subsequently arrested.
(Younger readers may not know what a land agent is. The term
is a euphemism for rent collector)
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| 678.19 | | DBO116::POCONNELL | O'Conan the Conniver | Thu Nov 23 1989 12:36 | 7 |
| My original note had put <enlightened> in quotes.
Wasn't Engels an 'enlightened' Capitalist?
:-)
Pat
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| 678.20 | | WAV14::CHAPLAIN | | Fri Nov 24 1989 05:56 | 23 |
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Paddy, Kivin, anyone else who's had the...ahem...pleasure......
Tell me more about this "warm welcome" at the border. I have
kin in Fermanaugh as well and plan on visiting when I go. Y'mean
ta tell me they're gonna be so pleased to see me that they're gonna
take PICTURES in remembrance of the occasion. Maybe send one to
the royal family so's they can admire my evil, grinnin' face? Why,
it'll take me a week just to brush my teeth in preparation for this
unprecedented honor...
...lessee...I'll have to trim my toenails, cut my nose-hair,
pluck my eyebrows...and I'll have to change my underwear (last year's
simply won't do).
O O
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