As my old long departed friend Ernie used to say “old age is not for the fainthearted” and who was I to argue with Ernie’s take on the subject: as...

We are all guilty of throwing temper tantrums at some stage in our childhood. However, I have been left with the impression that I, the eldest of five was the...

On Friday I took the train home to Limerick for the long weekend. I wanted to do something productive – visit somewhere I hadn’t been to previously. A brainwave struck....

‘Take that off, it doesn’t suit you’! Was the frequent order given by father to my mother and us, his five children, if he did not like the colour, style...

During his final years of secondary education at Belvedere College, a centre of Jesuit education in Dublin, my granduncle, Eustace Boylan SJ (1869-1953) developed a vocation. To that end, he...

I found a lovely black six month old puppy with a curly tail and a white sock on his right paw in a cardboard box in the car park at...

A Dubliner, a girl in her twenties, envies me for living in that city through the seventies. She, and many of her friends do not snigger at those years described...

We grew up in a small fishing village in south Galway. The village was divided in two tribes. Down town, comprised of those that had homes over looking the sea...

Setting – Parlour in house in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. Mr Roberts a lecturer of English  is 62 years old. Enter stage left, table, library books, drinks cabinet, chairs, carpet on...

Recently, I wrote a short article on the latest Irish Presidential election and in the course of my research, I was looking at the past history of people who had...