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Reflections of Times Past

17/3/2015

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I dropped back from Honours Irish to Pass Irish a few months before my Leaving Certificate. I don’t think that we had finished Peig by that time.

It took over
thirty years for me to get around to finishing it. And only another few weeks (shorter than Seachtain na Gaeilge) for me to finish a second Peig Sayers’ book.

In the final chapter, I discovered another suggested translation for the
quote on the wall of the coffee shop on Pope’s Quay.

In the introduction, W. R. Rodgers comments on the effect of radio and picture-screens on oral tradition. I wonder what he’d make of today when many prefer to communicate with their phone than with another human – just check the next time you are on a bus…….

Is that person next to you interested in living with you in each other’s shelter?


“But I have this much to say, that I had good neighbours. We helped each other and lived in the shelter of each other. Everything that was coming dark upon us, we would disclose it to each other, and that would give us consolation of mind. Friendship was the fastest root in our hearts.”

Peig Sayers – An Old Woman’s Reflections

Translated by Séamus Ennis
“Ach tá an méid seo agam le rá, go raibh comharsain mhaite agam. Chuidiomar féin le chéile agus ar scáth a chéile a mhaireamar. Gach rud a bhíodh ag teacht dorcha orainn nochtaímis dá chéile é agus chuireadh sin sólás aigne orainn. Ba í an charthanacht an phréamh ba dhaighne a bhí inár gcroí.”


Peig Sayers – Machnamh Seanmhná


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“But the story-tellers are a vanishing race for they have lost their audience and the flow of words comes thin and seldom now. The radio has taken away their voices just as the printed page has taken away their memories, and the pictures that once were seen in a glowing peat-fire are seen more readily on the picture-screen today. The world has widened and the imagination of man has dwindled. For it is good communications, not evil ones, that corrupt good manners and local mores, and the better the roads that lead into the glen, the quicker the old language, the old customs, the old stories and poetry, run out of it.”

W R Rodgers, 1962

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

15/3/2015

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Ten days ago, I was convinced that Eason’s had erred in their signage in their shop window.

Every day since, I have spotted other shops who agree with Easons.

I had understood that today was a day for all mothers and so assumed it was “Mothers’ Day” – but seemingly not.

Wikipedia advises that it was intended the day should be for each family to celebrate its own mother and so ‘Mother’s Day’.

But it still appears grammatically incorrect to me.


  ‘In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day", and created the Mother's Day International Association. She specifically noted that "Mother's" should "be a singular possessive, for each family to honor its mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers of the world."’

Wikipedia

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I see that Hallmark still continue to take issue with the use of an apostrophe. Castle Jewellers has a similar condition.

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Until Spelling Do Us Part

14/3/2015

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Since starting this blog, I have learnt much but have especially learnt not to leap in with both size 9’s.

This sign is on the Gala Shop on Camden Quay. I spotted it last week.

Since then I have learnt that I was wrong – not the sign.

I would have thought that ‘til was the accepted shortening of the word ‘until’ but Chambers do not agree. Collins are on my side though.

Chambers confirmed that ‘till’ is correct and similar to ‘until’.

I do not think I will be using ‘till’ but good to know.

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Finding a SnaG

13/3/2015

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A year ago, I wondered as to the appropriateness of Seachtain na Gaeilge.

This year, there is slightly more confusion with SnaG saying it is from 1st to 17th March – as last year, a 17 day week.

However, Cork City Libraries have 14 days from 10th to 24th and U.C.C. had a five day week (2nd to 6th).

So  much for trying to make Irish easy…..



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Everyday is Christmas Day

12/3/2015

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A few weeks ago Tommy Tiernan was in Cork. I didn’t attend but was told that he commented that St. Patrick’s Day is really there to tell the drunks that Christmas is over.

Maybe P J Hegarty and Cork City Council are just providing Tommy Tiernan with material or maybe not…..


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Christmas on March 12
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Not New Beginner

11/3/2015

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Many thanks to Douglas RFC for providing food for thought as one is stuck in the one's car, waiting for the green light into Douglas from the Link Road.

I would have expected that all beginners would be new. Therefore, I would have thought it unnecessary to use the word ‘new’ in the sign. Douglas RFC obviously know better.

So what is a not-new beginner?


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"Frankly I had enjoyed the war"

10/3/2015

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If you noticed a grave outside a graveyard, would you be curious?

I was.

Yesterday, I was out in the Mid-Cork area and decided to take a slight diversion off the Carrigadrohid to Macroom road. For the first time in my life, I was in Aghinagh. I  left no wiser as to how to pronounce correctly. But I did leave intrigued.


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IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
LIEUTENANT GENERAL
SIR ADRIAN CARTON deWIART V.C.
4th ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS
BORN MAY 5th 1880
DIED JUNE 5th 1963

IN QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE
SHALL BE MY STRENGTH


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How to Train a Dragon....... in Cork

9/3/2015

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I spotted this pair of Dragons when out yesterday morning.

How well do you know Cork?

Do you know where they reside?


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The Greatest Guitarist in the World….

8/3/2015

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“I want to plant a star in the sky,

One you can find at the end of the night”

Follow Me – Rory Gallagher

One of the updates during the week from Stair n hÉireann was that Rory Gallagher was born on 2nd March, 1948 – 67 years ago.

This was as good a prompt as any to take head to South Main Street and photograph the mural – even if the ‘
quote’ is unverified.


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Vengeance is Theirs

8/3/2015

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I remember many years ago seeing some of the documentary on the Ballyseedy Massacre.


Pat Butler’s pronunciation of the Kerry placenames such as Gneeveguilla and Knocknagoshel left a stronger memory than the killings on the young me. Way back then, things of history did not hold my attention for too long.

 I did not see the start so it was only
this morning’s update from Stair nahÉireann that educated as to relative timing of Ballyseedy and Knocknagoshel. For the past number of years, until the opening of the Tralee by-pass last year, we would have passed the Ballyseedy Monument regularly on our way to the Dingle Peninsula.

Since photographing the Knocknagoshel Monument last year, I have been intrigues somewhat as, I think it is the only memorial that I have come across to Pro-Treaty/Free State soldiers, excluding those to Michael Collins. I have photographed many but there appear to be either Civil War memorials and/or Anti-Treaty memorials.

Thanks to YouTube, I can watch what I think is Pat Butler’s documentary from years ago, and learn.



As for learning, my brain had filed away the saying as ‘”Vengeance is Mine” said the Lord’ but apparently
the bible has a longer quote.

“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
King James Bible

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Anniversary of Irishmen Killed

6/3/2015

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I like co-incidences.

Yesterday,
I learnt of the death of Jim McCann from blog update. His death was one day after the date upon which Grace Gifford Plunkett was born – she being the ‘Grace’ in the song he sung.

The update this morning
from Stair na hÉireann referred to two separate events from the 1920’s – both of which have memorial plaques which I have photographed but which I had not realised were on the same day – just two years apart. (or maybe 1 day short of 2 years)


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I Cheated…

6/3/2015

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Challenge Completed – Partly


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But Will They Respect Me In The Morning?

4/3/2015

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MEOW – Maybe Even Others Wonder

Maybe Even Others Wonder about Marketing People and how their brain works.

Maybe Even Others Wonder if those responsible for the name of the organisation ever pronounced it with a Cork accent and heard ‘Lay Ye’

Maybe Even Others Wonder, when they pass the building or hear the advertising, if they are alone in thinking of being screwed by the insurers.

Maybe Even Others Wonder, when that thought passes, it is replaced by the same insurers attacking you.

Maybe Even Others Wonder is it only them whose next thought is of gambling.

Maybe Even Others Wonder as to ‘Looking After You Always’ or maybe I am just catty

I'll Treat Ye Decent

O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent

   I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll fill your can

   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent

   For surely he is an honest man

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Just Like The Buses

3/3/2015

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This year, I have not attended very many lectures on things Cork, things historic, or just things absurd/eclectic.

Yesterday I was in the library and saw notices for three. I would love to attend all three but for my Irish class and a trip to Ennis – maybe I will get a
tour of Ennis.

To think of all the evenings when there aren’t competing attractions and then to be confronted with three at one time..........

Alas – Sin é……..
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The Risks of Sport Sponsorship

2/3/2015

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Eaten Bread and all that…..

The team may like to reference its tradition and the history of previous matches and campaigns – but a sponsor may be treated differently. A sponsor can gain from being associated with a team, but there does not appear to be any past – just a present and a future.

Toyota were the main sponsors of Munster Rugby from Summer 2004 to Summer 2013 – during which period, it was
reported that they invested €13m. In 2013, SEAT became Car Partners to Munster Rugby. Within months of the end of the Toyota sponsorship, it was as if they were never there with Munster staff were changing to driving SEAT cars.

When I saw this on the Bank of Ireland premises at 32, South Mall, I got to thinking about the difficulties of being associated with a professional sports team.

The Marketing Dept probably spent some time deciding on the message to be conveyed and the actual wording to accompany the image. To my reading, Bank of Ireland were linking into the group spirit and being at one with the team – ‘We’re with you every step of the way’.

All that appears fine until half way through the year, the player featured shows his determination and
decides to step away and join another team.

So are Bank of Ireland I step with J.J. in thinking it best to leave here…..

If the Marketing Dept knew then what they know now, would the message and image be together?


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