tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45043851916357076072024-03-13T15:27:20.905+00:00The Irish in LeicesterThe Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-9156943893585685472014-05-30T09:29:00.002+01:002014-05-30T09:29:27.764+01:00Cottesmore Rd<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Katrina Creighton’s Mum and Dad came here
in 1956. Her Dad, Harry, was from Abbeyleix in the midland part of Ireland, and
her Mum, Molly (Clarke) was from
Drogedha. Her brother Bobby came here first in 1955 when he was 18. He was on his
way to Liverpool with a friend and his friend wanted to meet somebody here in
Leicester, another friend. This friend said, “There’s loads of work in
Leicester. Why don’t you stay here?” So he did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1723333911"></span>Bobby’s other sister, Marie, and
girlfriend, Deidre,<span id="goog_1723333912"></span></a> soon followed and they lived in a flat on Mere Rd. At the
time there were notices up saying "No blacks, No dogs, No Irish". They all found
jobs and Bobby worked for Frears biscuits and his sister worked for Imperial
typewriters on East Park Rd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 1955 Katrina’s parents decided to move
here. She and her Mum arrived first while her dad stayed in Ireland to wind
things up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I don’t think my Dad really wanted to come
but my brother and sister were here so they were writing and coming back. They
came back for a visit and I remember my sister bought me a load of sweets,
English sweets which I thought was great, different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think he was kind of a bit reluctant to
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<span lang="EN-US">They stayed with her Mum’s friend’s cousin
who they’d not met before in a house near Frog Island. It was two up two down
and she remembers it didn't have a bathroom. It had an outside courtyard containing a
block of three toilets which was shared by all the other houses. She remembers
a very large wooden toilet seat that was squared and they smelt awful!</span></div>
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"I went to Slater St School. Coming
from a girls’ convent and being taught by the nuns I was so shocked when a boy
said he wanted to kiss me-the joys of being eight! I soon decided I didn’t like
Leicester. We left what was a Corporation house in those days in Crumlin in Dublin,
which was a semi with a large garden and an upstairs bathroom and a huge green
with loads of kids to play with so I missed all that –it was horrible. I hated
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<span lang="EN-US">When her Dad arrived about a month later the
family rented a bedsit on St Peter’s Rd. It was a large Victorian house. They
had one room with two single beds, a table, a chair and a sideboard. They had to
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<span lang="EN-US">“My Mum and Dad slept in one bed and my
sister and I slept in the other. Dad got us an electric ring for Mum to cook on
and we washed up in the bath. I changed schools and started Medway Junior School
and I remembered I hated it. My family all had work and saved every penny so
that they could buy their own house. I remember the estate agent, I think it
was Henley and Son, Mr. Henley, lending me Dad fifty pounds to put into his
account so he could get a mortgage to purchase the house, our first house. He
was ever so kind. Me Dad never forgot that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next house was on Cottesmore Rd. It was cheap and disgusting. Katrina remembers
it was damp, it had cockroaches and silverfish and the family had to go back to
all sleeping in one room. It took them six months and several fumigations to
make it habitable before it was fit to live in but resulted in her Mum
having a breakdown. She changed schools again, this time to <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/first-holy-communion.html">Sacred Heart</a> on
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<span lang="EN-US">She liked living on Cottesmore Rd; made friend with
the local kids and the teachers at school were nice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“There were two nuns who taught us; they
were nothing like the ones in Ireland. I was always getting the cane there. I
was hopeless. I couldn’t do the work, only later to discover I was dyslexic and
I was always talking. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“ We shopped in Green Lane Rd, Paddy’s Swag
shop. They sold everything-a kid’s dream. My parents went to East Park Rd Working
Men’s Club on a Saturday night and I remember going there many times, watching
the acts and eating mushy peas and vinegar. Meanwhile my eldest brother Harry
and his new wife who had remained in Dublin decided to join us here in
Leicester a year later. They lived with us and Harry soon got a job at the BSUM
British Shoe Company, Belgrave Rd. They saved and rented a house on Prospect
Hill. A year later my sister-in law’s whole family moved over.
She was the eldest of nine-they all lived around the Charnwood St. area. That’s
the Houlihans.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Harry returned to Ireland in fifty-nine.
He’d made enough money to set up a business and he lives in Ichicore and
celebrated his eightieth birthday last October. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Katrina’s father first worked at the Post
Office and then he was a cobbler so he probably went to work in a shoe factory.
He was the first one in the country to set up a “Heel Bar” in Lewis’. He was possibly working for Steadman’s. He worked for them and they asked him
to do it. He did key cutting as well which was a new thing. She remembers him
going down to London to set one up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">"The Wrafters are quite talented artists
and musicians. Grandad was a musician and he had an audition and was accepted at
the London School of Music but his wife wouldn’t let him go. He taught
music all around Ireland but that sort of talent has moved to the grand
daughters now and they’re all kind of like musicians. </span>It’s amazing, and also one of his brothers
was an artist and my brother in Ireland he plays the trumpet and he is a
fantastic musician so that’s passed to him. Unfortunately he’s deaf now.”</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of her uncles went to New York; "well
he went to Canada and legally went to America, illegally went to America like
they did. They’d just crossed over the border but he could never leave America ‘cos
he couldn’t get back in. So that’s Paddy. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Katrina has started a group on Facebook called </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/34412763170/">“Name Wrafter”</a> to see how many
Wrafters were out there. She has around one hundred and forty in Canada, America,
Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I had actually cousins who’d never met but
worked out their family trees. It’s been really interesting because most
Wrafters are an R.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She feels there was nowhere to play in
Leicester… “There was nowhere, we just played in the street whereas in Dublin
we went from, it was a Corporation House. They were clearing the slums in the
middle of Dublin so built all these new housing estates after the war. It was a
really nice area. It’s still there now and I go visiting sometimes. But there
was a big, massive big green you know to a little kids it was massive and it
was just full of grass and they just mowed it and we used to...I remember going
round and round on me scooter with all my friends, loads of kids, typical
Dublin and I loved it there, it was lovely.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Well you’d got no friends. I mean we had
that awful house we went to the first sort of month, I think it was or three
weeks, it was horrible. We lived with that woman and she, we didn’t know her, her
and her son. He was a bit older than me, and the four of us slept in one bed
when we first came over and you think well, they’re strangers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she had a lodger, he slept in the other
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Katrina worked at Imperial Typewriters too
when she first left school in the correspondence office, making the tea and
taking the post out.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In terms of <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/moat-st-wigston.html">anti-Irish feeling</a> she
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<span lang="EN-US">“ The only time was when the IRA started
their bombing. And my Mum used to go the Conny club near where they lived, near
Cottesmore Rd, Uppingham Rd way, Worcester Rd. They used to go to the
Conservative Club even though my Dad always voted Labour. Anyway, when the
bombing started they had a go at her and she was absolutely devastated, they
were like her friends. People said horrible things to her, took her a long
while to go back. That’s the only prejudice we’ve ever come across. Quite a
close community aren’t we really.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Me Mum loved Leicester. She said Leicester
was good to her and her family and she wouldn’t hear anybody say anything bad
about Leicester. The streets were clean, you know, she, she fitted in very
well. “<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks to Colin Hyde for the modern day photos: </span><a href="http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/" style="font-weight: bold;">East Midlands Oral History Archive</a><br />
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John Myers was born May 10<sup>th </sup>1935
in a little village in South Limerick,
Athlaca. “Well about a mile from Athlaca. My actual address was Tunnelby but Athlaca
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<span lang="EN-US">“I worked on the farms because my area
was all farming, horses and beef really to be honest. </span>Well, nearly everybody that I went to
school with, in my class, they all had emigrated to different parts of the
world. Some had gone to Canada, some had gone to America, quite a few in
England and I was about the second last one that was left really to be quite
honest. But we had a bit of trouble at home so really and truly, I suppose, at the
end of the day, I’d got no choice. My mother come with me. The two of us come over
together in1958.”</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He came to Leicester in 1958 for two
reasons; he’d got a sister already living in Market Harborough and his school
friend had come over 12 months before that and was driving for the Midland
Red, in Wigston. John actually wrote to him and he said “Well come over, I’ll
get you a job.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“So, he got me, he was in digs in Wigston, and
he got me digs there. We had a lovely old lady called Mrs Glenser. And then I
stopped there, (in Moat St) till I moved digs after about 12 months I went to Wigston Magna
and I stopped with a Mrs. Morris till I actually got married.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been over here about six months in the digs like and I come back from work one
night and Mrs Glenser says to me “I’ve got a friend come over, he’d be company
for ya, cos I was the only body that was in the house like. I walked in and there
was this other chap there and he was from Dublin, Paddy McCormack.” So
John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knew him ever since he come over as
well. Paddy was in the digs for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nearly
six months. He was a plumber by trade and he found a job in Enderby. When John
first started he was working with a little building company in Blaby. When Paddy
came over <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he was working in Enderby going
around all over the Midlands doing pipe work. John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>changed jobs and went to the Gas Board, on Aylestone
Rd and was there for about three or four
months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“After every shift I’d have two and a half
days off and you know, what do you do? You just walked about and I got fed up
with it. So my mate said to me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’re
doing a job in Kettering, which is in Northhamptonshire, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and my boss wants a bit of help for two days. Would you be willing to help?” I said yeah and I went with him for two days
doing pipe work at filling stations, petrol stations and I enjoyed the job and
after two days I come back and another and he says “ We want you again next
week on your days off” so I went in again and when I come back after the two
days he offered me a job, this other job.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The company was a small company called John
Weekfields with only three or four employees. John stayed there for twenty nine
years until his health went and he had
to stop at fifty four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But
I really enjoyed it, great. So that’s why I never moved out of Leicester cos I
liked Leicester from the first day I come in. I went to the sister in Market
Harborough, me and my mother, and when I was coming into Leicester to meet my
pal Joe Burns, I loved the place, well it was lovely then I will admit. I loved
the place and I said I’m not leaving here. And I did meet a lot of Irish lads when
we used to go around the town at night and every time, the following week you’d
go down and you’d say “where’s so and so?” “Oh, he’s moved” and then they all
started moving out of Leicester to London, Birmingham and Manchester. But I
never, I stopped where I was.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Leicester was lovely and clean. It was
lovely to go into the town, I always lived up in Wigston and it was lovely
going into the town, it was lovely and clean, the shops were great. Not like it
is today really, to be honest, you know, beautiful. Well that’s why I stopped
in Leicester. I had chances, you know, to move to Manchester and that, you know.
I was offered work up there but I wouldn’t do it, you know. I said I’m happy
where I am and that’s it. Cos me mother was in Market Harborough as well and I
was able to get to see her at the weekends. She was living with my sister. So
that was one of the reasons I suppose I didn’t move.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">John met his wife, Christine Hyland, from Dublin, coming out of church in
South Wigston.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“We used to meet Paddy McCormack sometimes
after mass, after 11.00 mass in South Wigston, and I seen him walking down the
footpath. It was him and his missus, cos his wife had come over to him. And
there was another girl with them so he spotted me and he come back and he says
“ I’ve been trying to find you all week.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I says “Why what’s the matter?” He says “There’s somebody here from
Dublin, would you take her to the pictures tonight?” I says “ What are you on
about?” you know. He says, “She’s been over here for a week” (she worked with
his missus in Dublin at Lemon sweets). So I said all right then. So that’s how
it started. She went back after the holiday and I never heard no more for about
nine months and she used to write me in that time. All of a sudden I got a
letter saying “Can you find me a job? “and that’s how it all started. So she
come over and she was living in Wigston as well so. Eventually we got married
but unfortunately I lost her when she was forty-two; a massive heart attack and
that was it..you know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Frear’s biscuits and they bought a house on Lothair Rd.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">"I had good times and bad times. I had some
rough times over the years like, you know, with losing her and having 3 young kids
to bring up; it wasn’t easy but lucky me mother was there for me, you know. And
after when I lost the wife, twelve months after I lost me mother as well. So she
went as well. I think cos they were very close actually. It was amazing how
close they were and, em I lost her as well so I went through a very bad patch
for about five years and, but for the sake of the kids you’ve got to carry on
haven’t you?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">John didn’t go back for a long time but his daughter, when she was about
eight or nine <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said “ Daddy, why can’t we
go back to where you come from?" you know. And eventually he went. He used to go
back to Dublin to his wife’s family, but never went down to where he came from.
And eventually he went down one one weekend with his brother in law <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but “I couldn’t get out of the place quick
enough you know. I didn’t like it. And I went back last year, not last year,
the year before, for three weeks and I lived, and I had a cottage in one of the
villages near my village at home, and I went around all the old haunts where I
used to go, the usual, but I just couldn’t, I couldn’t hack it. There was
nothing there to remind me of anything, you know, and anybody I met, they were
all strangers. You walk up to somebody, you know, "Do you know so and so? Did you know so and so?" Never heard of them. That was it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘When I first come to England I was very
shy like, I’ll admit it, but then I usually, I got to know people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it very hard when them bombings were
in Birmingham and all that, you know, cos I had very good friends and they were
all English people. I used to work part-time behind the bar at South Leicester club
down near the football, the old football club, and I worked there for about eight
years behind the bar. I went in one night; we used to meet every Wednesday, we
used to play skittles for the club. and he walked in the door <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and he said to<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">me</span>…. I</span>’d always see him come in, I knew what he drank, so I’d pull his pint ready and he come up to the counter and he looked.
I didn’t know that these bombs had gone off in Birmingham and he come up to the
counter and I says “ There y’are Bill (or whatever his name was). I says “ready
for you as usual” and he says “ I don’t, I don’t ever again want to see you for
what you’ve done. I looked at him and I says “I’ve done nothing. What are you
on about?” Well he says, ‘You’re like ‘em all.” He says, “You just pretend.” </span>And the steward like, Johnny Fawkes at that
time, he said, he come round, I says "Bill Roberts has just ignored me
completely" and I told him when I went off and Johnny said “Haven’t you heard then?’
and I said “No, what?” and he says “Well, there’s a bomb went off in Birmingham
last night and a lot of people have been killed by the IRA.” I says “Oh my God.”<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I didn’t believe in that at all. I
couldn’t, I never condoned that even when I was in Ireland. He said “That’s what
probably, you know….” He said “Go home, forget it. “ So I went home. I had a
couple off weeks off. He come back behind the bar again I just said Hello, the
same as usual. So he had his pint, he come back and when he come up for the
next pint he says “I’m sorry.” So I said “For what?” and he says "The way I
spoke to you." And I says "that’s alright Bill" I says “I can understand, but I didn’t
know what had gone on.” He says “Are we friends again?” and I says “Course you
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<span lang="EN-US">That really upset me really to be quite
honest with ya because for a long time after that people would ask me where I
come from and I wouldn’t, I wasn’t frightened but I wouldn’t say where I come
from. But we were the best of friends again after that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri;">If you'd like to be involved in The Irish in Leicester project contact us on 0116 276 9186 </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri;">or pop in to:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span dir="ltr"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="http://www.irishinleicester.org.uk/emerald.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"> T</a><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://www.irishinleicester.org.uk/emerald.html">he Emerald Centre,</a></span></span><a href="http://www.irishinleicester.org.uk/emerald.html"> </a>Gipsy Lane, Leicester. LE5 OTB or Duffy's, Pocklington's Walk, Leicester, LE1 6BU</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;">"My grandfather, Thomas Geraghty (24th Feb 1867-1953) left from the </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">townland</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15;"> of Gorteenacammdil (Gurcheen) near the village of Cloonfad on the borders of Mayo/Roscommon & Galway in Ireland (the nearest town is Ballyhaunis Co Mayo). </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This would have been around 1890 & he was bound for Leicester or a least he ended up here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was one of at least 5 children of Patrick & Bridget Geraghty (nee Kirrawn). </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: -webkit-auto;">His siblings were Mary c1854 (nee Hunt), John c1859 (who married Anne Regan), Catherine c1869 and Honor c 1870 (neither of whom we have been able to trace). I know for sure he had cousins in the nearby village of Garrenlahan/Granlahan in the townland of Spring Gardens, who in turn I believe were from Upper Clougher & Lower Clogher. All of these places are within a 3 mile radius of each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a record on the 1901 census of two Geraghtys, Patrick & Thomas, aged 24 & 26 respectively in accommodation on Baker St. in the Parish of St Margaret's, Leicester. They were together with other members of the Irish community although I am not sure of the relationship but would guess a cousins or possibly nephews. Otherwise all of his other nieces & nephews left Ireland in the 1920’s never to return with the exception of one. Similarly Thomas never ever returned to Ireland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">By all accounts he was here for labouring work and may have had family connections here but not that I am aware of as such. I was led to believe that he was a navvy and that he worked for some time with a local firm by the name of H. Wheway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">A member of the family from Spring Garden - John Geraghty, came and stayed with them a while whilst he worked as a roundsman for Kirby & West -</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"> (the recent picture on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Leicestermemories">Leicester Memories</a> facebook page could easily be him!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">His wife's family, the Martins, had also migrated into the city & her parents were originally described as agricultural workers from Uppingham in Rutland. They were initially in the All Saints area of the city and subsequently moved to Western Rd & became involved in the worsted textile business - I presume from a home base, having a machine in the house which was still not uncommon in those days. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Margaret (1867 -1947) Tom's wife to be, converted to become a Catholic and they married on Boxing Day 1898 at Holy Cross on New Walk. Leicester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Subsequently they moved to Woverton Rd,(no.110 or 112) off the Narborough Rd and the rest of the family were born and brought up in this area. Most of their children would have attended the school on the corner of Narborough Rd/Upperton Rd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Their children (my Uncles, Aunt and Father* were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bernard Martin Geraghty (1899 - c1950’s) Military service</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Percy Patrick Geraghty (1900 - 1972) Military service & Train driver/ JP</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Norah Butlin (nee Geraghty) (1908 - 1984) House- wife & care worker</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathleen Selina Patricia Cassidy (nee Geraghty) 1909 - 1989) Millinery merchandiser/ buyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">*John Alfred Geraghty 1910 (1910 - 1985) Military service/Clerk post war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">Margaret became the local "nurse" & I posted a picture of her in her "uniform" in the Leicester Mercury some years ago and was astonished at the number of people who recalled her "bringing them into the world" &/or "laying out their parents" ("hatch batch and dispatch"<i> </i> I think they referred to it as). </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Incidentally, her sister, Selina Martin, ran the old post office on Braunstone Lane before the war and before the Braunstone Estate was built"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whilst Thomas never returned to Ireland some of his sons, his daughter and indeed his English wife did make several trips to Spring Gardens (the family from Gorteenacammdil /Gurcheen by now either passed on or in Chicago). </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One of the nephews of my grandfather Thomas, did subsequently return to Gorteenacammadil and he too was another Thomas and I had the great privilege and pleasure of tracking his son, my 2nd cousin John and his family, down in the early 1980’s. Sadly he too is no longer with us.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a;"><i>"I have being searching for a doctor who lived
and worked in Highfields in the 1940s who wrote a famous Irish song that was
recorded by Bing Crosby".</i></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">"The song is Galway Bay. The name of the Doctor who wrote it was
Arthur Colahan (not sure of the spelling). In fact there's a plaque
on the wall of the old Prebend Hotel outside your old school.
( Collegiate Girls) Can't remember if it says old Artie wrote it
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a;">"If you Google his name you will find his details
are on Wikipedia. Fascinating man. He actually survived a mustard gas attack in
World War 1. "</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a;"> And finally this amazing response from
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr Leicester 10.4.1998:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">IN HIS home town of Galway he lies in an unmarked
grave, but in Leicester, where he lived for most of his working life, a blue
memorial plaque proudly marks the site of his home in Prebend Street, off
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<span lang="EN-US">Arthur Colahan was a doctor, the plate on his
London Road offices described him as a 'neurologist' and he worked most
prominently for Leicester Prison and police service. But what made him famous
was his hobby as a songwriter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For Arthur Colahan wrote many hit songs and
sentimental ballads, mostly with the Irish touch, like Cade Ring and Macushla
Mine. But his greatest hit was Galway Bay, sung still by Irish exiles
everywhere around the world, but recorded and made famous by Bing Crosby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Legend has it that Colahan wrote the song in
memory of a brother drowned in Galway Bay, and it did the rounds for
years before a publisher heard Colahan singing it himself while on a
trip home to Ireland from Leicester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Crosby's recording made it the best selling popular song in
1950, and scores of other performers recorded it too. But it remained the
composer's own party piece at gatherings of family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Arthur Colahan came from a medical family, and
graduated in 1913. He served in the British Army Medical Corps in India during
World War 1, and returned home to settle in Leicester, renting professional
accommodation on London Road (now demolished and replaced with a bank) and
remaining in the city for the rest of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Music was his greatest relaxation from the stresses of his
work, and most of his hit songs were written in Leicester, where he died in
September 1952, aged 67.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Galway Bay song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The sentimental evergreen popular
song Galway Bay written in Leicester by famous Irish composer Dr. Arthur Colahan who
died 50 years ago this month (as recalled recently on my page) has fond family
associations for retired school teacher Mrs. Cecilia Teresa Upton (nee
Lardner), of Whitwick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One reason is Dr. Colahan and his wife Maisin
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<span lang="EN-US">Four years earlier the Colahans were staying at St. Joseph’s
Guest House at Whitwick while visiting Mount St. Bernard Abbey. They happened
to mention to a friend of Mrs. Upton’s parents they were looking for a young person
to help out with some domestic duties and as a receptionist for patients who
came to the surgery at their home in Prebend Street, Leicester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“The friend recommended my sister Mary, aged 14, who had
recently left school and was unhappy working in a factory,’’ explains Mrs.
Upton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mary got the job, which proved a happy arrangement not least
because she had a lovely singing voice. She would sing the new compositions as
Dr Colahan wrote them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not too long afterwards Mary’s sister Anne joined her at
the Colahan home. Later when Mary eventually left there her sister
Monica replaced her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Dr. and Mrs. Colahan (who in later years
separated) became good friends with my parents Tom and Mary Lardner who
originated from Galway and lived in New Street, Whitwick. They often
came over to visit on Sunday evenings,’’ continues Mrs. Upton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She was told they were very kind to her family when her
little brother was tragically killed in a motorbus accident a few months before
she was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“My parents asked them to be my godparents and I was given
Mrs. Colahan’s middle name Teresa,’’ says Mrs. Upton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When she was older she learnt how on the day of the
christening the godparents’ late arrival caused considerable panic –
particularly as they were bringing the christening robe and shawl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Eventually their car (which always caused a stir in 1930
Whitwick) was sighted as it approached 15 minutes before the christening
started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They brought the robe and shawl carefully folded around a
hotwater bottle – it being a chilly November day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mrs. Upton remembers Dr. Colahan as a jolly man,
but who was sometimes moody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She points out his full name was Arthur Nicholas
Whistler Colahan – his third forename inspired by the American
painter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At Mrs. Upton’s retirement from Whitwick’s Holy Cross School
in 1990 a mock-up of the TV programme “This is Your Life” was staged. It
included a rendering of the song Galway Bay which understandably
proved very nostalgic especially with her sister Mary present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And
22.8.2007:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mention on this page a few weeks ago of Dr. Arthur Colahan has
prompted Arthur Bassett, of Leicester, to write to me about him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mr. Bassett says: “Leicester City Council has not really
done him justice with the blue plaque on the wall of his house in Prebend
Street, because he was more than ‘the man who wrote the
song Galway Bay’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“This song was published in 1942, but wasn’t popular until
1948 when Bing Crosby and many others recorded it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“This version of the song is a rearrangement of a song
(composed by Dr. Colahan) in memory of his brother who drowned
in Galway Bay in 1912.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mr. Bassett has sent me this photograph which shows Dr. Colahan outside
his house in Prebend Street, Leicester, where he practised neurology.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He says Dr. Colahan wrote several books on the
subject. One of them – The Miracle of the Human Body, published by Odhams about
1950 – belongs to the widow of a friend of the doctor’s. The friend sent the
photograph to the doctor at Christmas 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mr. Bassett adds: “The photograph came with the sheet music
of another of Dr Colahan’s songs, The Claddagh (wedding) Ring, which was
published in 1946, but I can’t find a recording of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I have Bing Crosby, Michael O’Duffy, Bill Johnson and Josef
Locke singing the second version but only Scottish singer Robert Wilson (also
of 1946) singing the original 1912 version of the song.”</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b>
<b><span lang="EN-US">And 27.7.1913:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Galway Bay’s a song that’s been carousing the homesick
Irish for generations. And it’s easy to see why. It has an uncomplicated melody
and all the subtlety of a tourist board montage...the gentle ripple of the
trout stream, the murmur of coastal Gaelic, breezes perfumed by heather...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So it may surprise you to learn that this evocative,
well-known ditty was written in a city residential street by a doctor who cared
for Leicester prison’s neurologically- impaired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dr. Arthur Nicholas
Whistler Colahan penned Galway Bay when he was living
at 9 Prebend Street, Highfields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The imagery of this soporific standard couldn’t have been in
greater contrast to the cold steel bars and high walls that he knew while
walking the dim corridors of HMP Leicester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 2002, the Leicester Mercury had the good fortune to speak
with Cecilia Upton (nee Lardner), a retired teacher living in Whitwick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She revealed that in 1930, Dr. Colahan and his
wife, Maisin, became her godparents. Significantly, Cecilia’s parents Tom and
Mary Lardner, who lived in New Street, Whitwick, also heralded
from Galway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mrs. Upton told us that when her sister, Mary, was 14 she
went to work for the Colahans at their three-storey Victorian home and surgery
in Leicester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was there Mary carried out domestic duties and worked on
reception. It just so happens that young Mary Lardner had a splendid singing
voice and, as soon as Dr. Colahan penned something new, he would get
this Leicestershire songbird to give it the once over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However, it wasn’t the Whitwick teenager who
made Galway Bay a 1947 classic. That was down to the silken
tonsils of crooners’ crooner Bing Crosby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dr. Colahan, who was born in Enniskillen and had spent
his formative years in Galway, died at home in Leicester on September 15,
1952.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His body was to make the final journey back to Ireland’s
west coast, where, today, his bones lie buried in an unmarked grave at
Bohermore cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As I gather stories from The Irish in Leicester the conversation inevitabley turns to the clubs and pubs that we would gather in for the drink, the music, the camaraderie and the craic. I hear about lots: The Jolly Miller, The Hare and Hounds, The JFK, The Corn Exchange, The Highfields Working Men's club and so many more buy unfortunately I have very few photos of any of them apart from the ones here of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=9212303553566054983;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=1;src=postname">St. Pat's club</a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=3271567753666805569;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=1;src=postname">The Palais</a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=2376424024027190281;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=1;src=postname">The Secular Hall. </a>I'd really like to begin to gather more stories and photos about the clubs and pubs so please do get in touch if you have any.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upstairs Bar. Jim Stretton wearing the St.Patrick's tug of war shirt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug McCarthy with the pool cue, Mick Shearer in the background,right, with the dark shirt and Patsy Feeney in the foreground, white shirt.</td></tr>
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Patch Breen’s father, Peter Joseph Breen
came from County Wexford. He had volunteered to join the British Army and
served in the Dublin Fusiliers. He fought in WW1 and sadly lost a leg in battle
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<span lang="EN-US">Rose Lawson, Patch’s mother, was an English
girl from Leeds. Her family had moved to Leicester and they rented a house at
26 Bakewell St. in Highfields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Peter and Rose met in 1945 at the Wolsey
hosiery factory on Abbey Lane where they both worked. He was a sweeper up, she
was an overlocker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went for drinks
in a pub on Conduit St. opposite The Jolly Miller, called The Hare and Hounds run by Harry Callaghan. As far at Patch knows it was frequented by Irish and
Scots drinkers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She was a Protestant and he, a Catholic. This
never seemed to be a problem although sometimes “ if she was in one room and he
was in another my dad would ask me to go over and ask her if she’d become a
Catholic. But there wasn’t any real seriousness in that I don’t think.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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65 and she was 45 when they were married in 1947 and they had Patch two years
later on March 17 in 1949. “As far as I know I think the neigbours thought that
Mam and Dad were too old to have a child. It was her first child and she was
47 and Dad was 67.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once they married, Peter moved into
Bakewell St. with Rose and her father. Patch doesn’t know why his father came to
Leicester but does know that the marriage certificate states that he was living
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a corner house and had several rooms that Rose’s family would rent out and
Peter and Rose carried on. It was rented for £1 from Spencer’s at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the 50s, because of Irish migration, there
were lots of Irish lodgers and Patch remembers a particular couple of Irish
lads that lodged with them when he was a child: Paddy Holly was in his 20s and
stayed with the family for about 10yrs. Pat Deveane stayed for a few months and
later became Entertainment Secretary of the Spinney Hill Working Men’s Club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Rose would tell a story that Pat forgot his
keys one night and had to climb up the drainpipe. </span>Patch has an idea that his Dad met the two
lads, and other people that stayed in the house, at The Imperial pub in
Highfields on Mere Rd, just round the corner. It wasn’t too far for Peter to
walk with his bad leg.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Paddy Holly worked at Pollards in the Engineering
on St. Saviour’s Rd. again not very far from Bakewell St. Patch remembers that
he didn’t drink but he used to back the horses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Across the street lived an Eastern European family: she was German and he was Czech, "as we used to say." They
had a lodger, an Irish girl called Brenda. She was single and in her late fifties
and had been a ballet dancer previously in her life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An Irish couple lived next door at 24
Bakewell St; Minnie (nee Reid) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">and</span> Alex Pryor. There was another Irish family down the road at No. 18, The
Merrymans.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">“The street then was cobbled, it wasn’t
tarred, so on Bonfire night you could have bonfires in the street. I remember
that we played out a lot on the streets but when they tarred them you
couldn’t, which was probably in the late Fifties.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Patch went to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=7761465454757912165;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=2;src=postname">Sacred Heart School </a>and would go to
Saturday night mass at Sacred Heart Church with his father. He remembers Cannon<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lindboom</span> </span>visiting one time and the
Cannon died in the pulpit giving a sermon! “ I imagine he died there and then
in those days there were no paramedics.” The parish priest was Father Murdoch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He was taught by nuns at Sacred Heart;
Sister Columbo was the Headmistress with two other nuns, Sister Joan and Sister Gemma, who each
had a year class. </span>There was a convent on Mere Rd above
Bakewell St. and they’d walk from the convent to Sacred Heart everyday and back
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<span lang="EN-US">“ having a bit of a roll about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the floor, a fight, not a real fight with
my Polish friend Schindler, I can’t
remember his first name. The two nuns passed us and didn’t say a word. The next
day in assembly Mr. Riley called us out. “The two boys who were fighting on
Mere Rd yesterday can they come to the front of the hall" and all the rest of
it. Then we went to see the Headmaster, Mr. Blacklock. Sister Columbo must have
left by then. He did nothing, had a quick word with us and that was it. I
thought we were going to get the cane!””<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patch Breen, centre left, with his Mam, centre right, having a drink in a pub on the front at Skegness.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Further down from Bakewell St. on the corner
with Chatsworth St, there was Lee’s newsagent where Patch’s friend Tez Lee
lived. </span>There was another newsagent, Bert’s on Hartington
Rd, the other end of on Bakewell St. Tom Dorral ran the Post Office where Peter
went for his pension.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“ We were near the railway on Bakewell St.
and we used to play on this place called the Rally Banks. It was right near to
the railway line, on top of Melbourne St, if I can remember. It was a steep
embankment really and we just used to climb up it and slide down it. And there
were lots of sticky sort of things. Any plant that was growing there used to
stick on you but it was black with soot. Your trousers got black but you didn’t
think about it as a kid really.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Patch married Breda Maclean from Belfast in
1976. They met because they both worked on Dorothy Rd, on the other side of
Spinney Hill Park. Patch worked at Consort Press, a printers. </span>Breda worked in the office for Crypto Peerless
at the other end of Dorothy Rd. They made machines for kitchens and offices and
Breda worked in the office.<br />
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“I was a van driver at the printers, I was always
outside loading the van or driving. That’s how I met Breda, when she was walking
by to the Post Office round the corner on St. Saviours Rd."</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Patch’s father died in 1961 when Patch was
12. His mother Rose died in 1975 when he was 25 and he continued to live in the same house
on his own. When Patch and Breda got married in 1975 she moved in too. Some
years later when she became pregnant Patch realised just how damp the house had
become and he felt ” you couldn’t bring a baby up in this”. So they had to find
somewhere else to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The East Midlands Housing Association got
them a house on <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=2901341191105443066;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=2;src=postname">Frederick Rd.</a> This was great and just in time for the baby,
Damien, being born in June 1982. But in Frederick Rd. they had a neighbor who
made a hell of a lot of noise, ‘you could hear the bass coming through all the
while”. There was nothing they could do about it and lived there for a year. A
friend of Patch’s, Johnny Maloney, lived on the next street, Grove Rd. When he
wanted to move out Patch asked the Housing Association if he and his family
could move in and they agreed. The lads had a couple of bikes and cycled down to
Narborough Rd. to hire a van. They put the bikes in the van, came back and moved
the two houses on the same day! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patch playing steel pans at Leicester's Caribbean Carnival mid 80s<br />
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This weekend falls between the anniversary of my mum's death, Jan 31, 2000 and her birthday, Feb 7. At the time it seemed unspeakably cruel to have the two events so close together but having lost both parents, and seen friends go through the same, you realise that there's a whole list of firsts that will break your heart: the first birthday, the first weekend, the first day without them is almost too much to bear. But then you find you can.<br />
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My Mum, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4504385191635707607#editor/target=post;postID=7123436450304146670;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname">Sarah Callaghan.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting that Lynda to do anything she doesn't want to wasn't easy!</td></tr>
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I met today with John Coster of Citizenseye and Namrata Varia from BBC Radio Leicester. Namrata is continuing the success of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-listening-project">BBC 4 Listening project.</a><br />
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I have often wondered if the stories captured here in the blog ever spark conversations between families; whether you turn and ask your parents and siblings the kind of questions I've asked them. For example " What did it feel like coming over on your own?" I know I never asked my Mum and Dad and I regret that.<br />
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Do not let our stories disappear: you can always talk to me and I'll write them down and put them up on the blog, Or we can take this a step further and come along to Radio Leicester and record your stories together. Just let me know.<br />
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The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-23764240240271902812013-09-16T07:44:00.001+01:002013-09-16T08:02:30.458+01:00Your dancing days...<br />
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As part of Leicester's Heritage Open Days yesterday I visited The Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate. It's the kind of building that we walk past everyday, forgetting to look up at and appreciate. It's drenched in a history of radicalism and free thinkers but I must admit my main motivation was to get inside the place where some of you said you drank, dance and for<a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_4415.html"> John and Annie Moran</a>, even met your wives and husbands to be. The Hall was actually a <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/st-patricks-church-and-club.html">key part of the dancing scene</a> in the 1950's and 60's<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I found out this morning that, unfortunately, I have not been shortlisted for the Blog Awards Ireland 2013, Best Blog of the Diaspora. Getting through to the long list was exciting enough and I thank everyone for all their support and best wishes. I'm already thinking about how I can improve how the blog looks but the whole point of this blog is to tell your stories so let's just keep doing what we do!</span><br />
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I have been contacted recently by Dr. Angela Maye-Banbury and Dr. Rionach Casey from Sheffield Hallam University. Angela, from County Tyrone, and Rionach, from Cork, are members of the Dept. of Architecture and Planning at Sheffield Hallam. They are experienced researchers in the field of sociology and particularly on the importance of housing and home in diverse communities. I am thrilled to say they have invited me to be part of their new project, Irish History Housing Research, looking at the housing histories of Irish communities in Leicester and Sheffield. If you or your family are interested in being part of this study just let me know.<br />
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I have written before about my affinity with the <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/what-does-wearing-claddagh-mean-to-you.html">Claddagh </a>and do have a tendency to ask complete strangers if I can photograph their hands! Today's post is about me taking that one step further.<br />
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I have recently been on a Digital Story Telling course at the delightful<a href="http://ashbydelazouchmuseum.org.uk/"> Ashby-de-la-Zouch museum</a>. Thank you so much to the staff there, the others on the course and Alex Henry of<a href="http://curiositycreative.wordpress.com/what-is-digital-storytelling/"> Creative Curiosity</a> for her endless information and ideas.<br />
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The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-30330315593715396492013-06-24T21:08:00.000+01:002013-08-16T18:35:09.498+01:00Biddle Rd<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Susan Quilter was born in Leicester to an English mother and Irish father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father, William Greally (called Bill in Leicester) was born in Roscommon in 1922. He was the eldest <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of 7 brothers and a sister. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The family moved to New Parks from <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/moira-st.html">Moira St</a> in 1961. Mum, Dad, Pete, Sue, Maggie, Dette and Gez moved to 145 Biddle Rd when Sue was 14: her younger brother Paddy was later born here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father Bill had had an accident down the mines in the late 60s and was pensioned out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the money he got he bought a van and rented a shop selling second hand clothes, bric-a-brac etc. He also had a stall on Leicester Market. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Later the family moved to Beatrice Rd to a 4 bed house with a shop attached so he gave up the first shop but kept the van and stall on the market. Sue remembers playing hide and seek and skipping with her friend Linda Illiffe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sue had married in 1969 and became Susan Quilter but divorced in 1995. She later met her own Irishman, Pat Cullen in 1998 and they have been together ever since. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was in The Standard having a drink when they got talking and it turned out that Pat knew Sue’s Dad and her uncles. He took her to an Irish music session at Molly O’Grady’s and the rest is history! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pat had come over himself from Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon in 1963. He says “I came here on the Saturday, I was 18 on the Sunday and I started work on the Monday”</span><br />
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The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-34974647811366597692013-06-24T21:02:00.000+01:002013-09-16T08:10:44.018+01:00RIP Susan Quilter<br />
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Sadly, the community lost a delightful lady recently. I had known Susan Quilter for almost a year and the first half of her story was posted here only a couple of weeks ago: <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/moira-st.html">Moira St. </a><br />
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She was very keen to share her memories of being an English/Irish child growing up in Leicester and gave me the most fabulous photos; so many in fact that I'm able to make two fascinating stories. Sue's partner, Pat, has kindly given me permission to complete her story by posting the next part, <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/biddle-rd.html">Biddle St.</a><br />
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Thank you Pat, and we are so sorry for your loss.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Walker was born in Tubbercurry, County Sligo in 1937. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He came over to England when he was 19 on October 5, 1956 and arrived in Leicester the next day, a Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span> <span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was met by his brother James who was the eldest brother and had already come over “for money".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John first stayed in South Albion St. with a Kerry man, John Brosnan and his wife. James warned him that the food wasn’t very good and that he’d soon look like a greyhound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After a few months the brothers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>found a room in a house on Avon St with a cousin, Johnny Armstrong, and they cooked for themselves. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They lived here for 2 yrs. and during this time John worked for John Laing. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John and James <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paid £2 a week rent, a pound each. John did the shopping and James did the cooking and when James left John had forgotten how to cook! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He met two fellas from Charlestown who got them work with cars," no tax”. John first worked in Derby,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matlock, Sponden and finally back to Leicester. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Leicester he worked for Johnson and Stubbs, a Birkenhead firm, digging trenches and laying gas pipes. After 2 or 3 months he was transferred to Northampton, then Runcorn and back to Leicester. He was then 23 years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in Leicester he got a room on his own at 8 Tichbourne St. and then 43 St. Peter’s Rd. with 2 other fellas, Johnny Quinn and George Callaghan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">George “ never washed a shirt”. He would buy a new shirt each week, wear it till it was black and then buy a new one. He’d be spending £2 for a shirt when John was paying £4 a week to have his entire washing done at a local laundry. When John told him George couldn’t believe how all his shirts came back clean and pressed: he didn’t buy another shirt for 6 months!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Johnny Quinn would take his dog to the pub; he’d buy two pints, one for himself and one for the terrier sitting on the bar!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John had been a Pioneer since he was 16 in 1953. People used to say “drink is a bad dog you have to muzzle” and ” Drink never made a strong man or a great nation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The other fellas liked a drink and would be dying for a drink on Sundays when the pubs were shut. Although John was a Pioneer he could see how much the fellas wanted their drink; once he bought bottles of beer and hid them under the sink. He told them he could get them drink on a Sunday and charged them £2 for it! They couldn’t understand where he’d got it from and he could never understand why they didn’t do that for themselves. (He gave them their money back when it he told them what he’d done.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John would often make a big stew. One time he put the 4lbs of stewing beef in the pot but fell asleep and forgot to turn it on. When he woke up he put it on for a while and went out. That night George Callaghan brought a fella back from the pub saying “John always had a great stew on” but this time it was half raw! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1963 he bought a house on St. Steven’s Rd for £1,800. His friend, Big John Ward was amazed: “You buy a house? You couldn’t buy your breakfast!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like many fellas John would go home to see his family and would help out on the family smallholding. One time, in 1966 he met Mary McDonagh at a dance in Cloonacool. This was a fundraising dance for the local priests in a marquee and cost 2/6d to get in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary had a great musical ear and could pick up a lilt. She could go to a dance, sit up with the band, come home and lilt a tune to her father. “Daddy, I have a nice tune” He’d say ” bring me the fiddle from under the bed” and between them they’d get it! They were married in 1968 by John’s brother, Michael, who was a priest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary had already been over </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">to England: she had lived in Birkenhead with an Aunty and trained as a bookkeeper. When she came to Leicester she worked at <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/work-places.html">Dunlop</a> filling in for a woman but they wanted her to stay on. Their first son, Michael, was born in 1969 and she went back to work after wards.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He remembers going to the pictures regularly on Melbourne Rd. and a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">n off-license called Walker’s on Biddolph St </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(which is now a funeral directors.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They used both Holy Cross and Sacred Heart Church. They were in Sacred Heart Parish but the other side of St. Steven’s Rd was in Holy Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John doesn’t recall experiencing any prejudice during those early years and one friend had even asked why so many people talked to him. John says “If you’re alright with people, people will be right with you.” “I often meet a black man and stand up and have the craic.” "When I go in if they don’t speak to me I speak to them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both children were born in Leicester; Michael in The General in 1969, John in The Royal in 1972. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once both his uncle and father had died John says " Being as I was supposed to go home anyway” he went home and the family stayed in Ireland for the next 14 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">John came back to Leicester in 1986 while Mary and the boys stayed in Ireland. They'd had a very bad year on the farm and eventually John decided to rent all the land out and the whole family returned to 14 Linton St, Evington, a 3 bed-terraced. (The family still own that land.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michael went to Charles Keene College and John went to St.Paul’s. It was only after a visit from the Headmaster that John realised his youngest had been ”schemin’ school” for months. Young John had done the work in school in Ireland and was able to miss school here in England and still keep up. The Headmaster even said " If he was my son I’d take him out and get him a job”. John went on to night school and continued his education getting a degree in Electrical Engineering.</span><br />
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The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-17409715568996422652013-05-15T07:08:00.000+01:002013-08-16T18:36:48.180+01:00Moira St<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Susan Quilter was born in Leicester to an English mother and Irish father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father, William Greally (called Bill in Leicester) was born in Roscommon in 1922. He was the eldest <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of 7 brothers and a sister. His grandparents had a small farm but, although there was plenty of work to be had at home, the money was better in England. He first came over with three or four other fellas when he was 17 in 1939.They came to Reading where he got a job as an apprentice electrician. This was a reserved occupation which meant he was not conscripted when war broke out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He later moved up to Leicester to work in the mines at Desford and had rooms at 2 Moira St. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Susan’s Mum, Irene Lismore, had come to Leicester with her family when they moved from Bisceter, Oxfoshire. They lived at 4 Moira St! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bill and Irene met and were courting for about 2 years before they married in 1944.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Irene’s parents moved back to Oxford and, after they had married at Leicester Registry Office, Irene and Bill lived at no. 4. They had 5 of their 6 children here: Pete, Sue, Maggie, Dette and Gez. It was a 3 bedroom rented house and Irene’s Mum came back to live with them after she was widowed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The older children, Dette, Sue and Mags went to <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/harrison-rd.html">St. Patrick’s school</a> on Harrison Rd and Sue later won a scholarship to go to Wyggeston Girl’s school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was one other Irish family on the street called Quinn, and Kathleen Quinn went to St. Patricks School too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sue can remember Griffith’s shop; potatoes in sacks, sweet jars full of collar studs and buttons, slabs of cheese and bacon. She says “Even though they might be closed you could always knock on the door and they’d serve you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The family used <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/border-drive.html">Our Lady’s Church on Harrison Rd</a>. which is now a Hindu temple. She remembers the May Day procession which went down Moira St, along Melton Rd, up Canon St and back along Harrison Rd to the church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The picture below is taken on Coronation Day, 1954 under an archway on Moira St. There had been a street party to celebrate the Coronation with tables set out in the street. Unfortunately it started to rain and the women pulled the tables in out of the wet. Susan's mother, Irene, is left of centre wearing a swagger coat and expecting Maggie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her uncles followed their brother Bill over and would often stay with the family. They might then find their own rooms or even go back to Ireland and come back again. Sue remembers that her Uncle Pat, known as “Black Pat” would pawn his suit on a Monday morning and get it out again at the weekend. “He’d come round on a Friday night with a steak to be cooked and a tin of Lucky Numbers sweets.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Click through for more about the original St.Patrick's school on <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/st-patricks-school-royal-east-st.html">Royal East St</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bridget wasn’t yet 21 when she first came to England from Athy, County Kildare in 1956. In fact she had her 21<sup>st</sup> birthday in London. Her father had come over to England after the war and was working on the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was already living in Hammersmith but her Mum was unable to join him. Bridget was the first of a long line of brothers and sisters to come over.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She met her husband-to-be, Martin Fitzgerald in London. She used to work in a supermarket and the Irish lads used to come in and have laugh. She also remembers working in an Irish cafe for half a day: it was full of Irish builders. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bridget and Martin married in the Holy Trinity church, Brooke Green, London in 1960.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin had family up in Leicester so they moved up here shortly afterwards. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their first home in Leicester was on <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/princess-rd.html">Equity Rd.</a> They had the ground floor of a house and she remembers it as being very damp (perhaps because there was a cold storage unit near by!). After a few months they got a council place in the brand new Rowlatt’s Hill flats. Rowlatt’s Hill was built between 1964 and 67. By 1969 they had bought a house in Aylestone, Keenan Close, which cost them £3000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like many others, Bridget remembers being able to pick and choose jobs. While living in Equity Rd she worked at Byfords, operating a machine by hand that printed labels and invoices. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She worked at the Co-op offices on Union St (now part of The Shires).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While living at Rowlatts Hill she worked as Watkin’s on Green Lane Rd. This was a wood machinery tool place and she worked in the office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coming from London Bridget found Leicester confusing: she was used to using The Tube to get around and Leicester buses would change numbers depending on whether they were going in or out of town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She used the Clock Tower as a reference point to find her way around. She didn’t like the market as she thought the fruit was often bruised and the stall holders wouldn’t let you pick your own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When she was first over Bridget remembers going to look at a room. The room only had one bed so it was clear she would have to share a bed with a stranger. When she said she didn’t want to do that the landlady said “You Irish, you’re expecting too much”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her 2 sons, Martin Jnr. and Barry were born in Aylestone: Martin Jnr. in 1974 and Barry in 1977. They went to Holy Cross on Stonesby Avenue and later St.Paul’s. Bridget was a dinner lady a Holy Cross school in the 80s when the boys were there, and later The Newry, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which fitted in perfectly with the children. She also worked voluntarily at <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-general-hospital.html">The General Hospital.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once Martin Fitzgerald himself died in 1986, Martin Jnr. dropped the jnr. was THE Martin Fitzgerald.</span></span><br />
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You may have read a previous blog post, <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/mothers-and-daughters.html">Mothers and Daughters </a>, about the work of artist, Sarah Strong. Well, I went down to London yesterday for a viewing of her installation, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/irishdiasporastudies/home/information---academic/irishartistseekssubjectsirishexilemigrationmothersanddaughtersartproject">The Sentient Handkerchief.</a> It was held in the warm and welcoming offices of <a href="http://www.mind-yourself.co.uk/html/mission.html">mind yourself </a>in Islington which works to improve the well being of the Irish community in London.<br />
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I had already received a photo of my handkerchief but I still didn't know what the complete piece of work would look like. Everytime I have mentioned this project to people I have filled up and got emotional - I didn't disappoint last night either!<br />
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I got there early and was thrilled to see the final piece: 15 handkerchieves, 12 mother/daughter photos interspersed with 3 photos of willow trees. I have to admit I was very proud to see my Mum up there on the top row but that significance is clearly mine not Sarah's! The evening was well attended but sadly only two other "handkerchief girls " were able to make it: several lived abroad, others had family commitments etc. but it was lovely to meet those other two and to swap stories. As varied as our experiences were, we had all loved and lost our Mothers.<br />
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Sometimes you don't need any more details than a time and a place and a name. This photo was taken in 1966 at St.Pat's Club, Abbey St.<br />
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<br />The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-22420844538499459152013-02-14T16:30:00.000+00:002013-08-16T18:37:30.126+01:00Harrison RdI've had a fantastically quick response from the new friends I made at the Holy Cross lunch club on Tuesday. These two photos were taken at St.Patrick's School, Harrison Rd, around 1956/7 and were given to me by Susan Quilter, top left of the netball team with the lovely bow in her hair.<br />
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Susan Quilter, Shirley Russell, Monica Reid. <br />
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<br />The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-90022632475145153782013-02-12T17:13:00.000+00:002013-08-18T09:11:17.788+01:00Holy CrossA huge thank you to the Holy Cross lunch club for their hospitality and warm welcome today.<br />
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I gave a short talk to the group about the blog earlier today and came away with some new contacts and some more Claddaghs! I look forward to hearing more from these particular ladies...<br />
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<br />The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-90615641502534459752013-02-12T08:12:00.000+00:002013-08-13T19:50:47.825+01:00Ever connecting links<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've written about this before I know but one of the things that continues to come through during my conversations with our Irish Elders is the link with others: the link with family and friends who were already here and the link with those who came later, either to visit or to stay. </div>
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The first two pictures here are of my own family. The first one, taken in the back yard of <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">Upper Conduit St,</a> shows me and my Mum and Dad, with my maternal Grandmother. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My Grandmother was called Mother by everybody.who knew her and had raised 10 children of her own. Despite being the eldest, after an older sister Hannah had sadly died of TB, my <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>um was not the first of her 8 sisters to marry and have children. I don't know if this was the first time Mother had been over to see her in Leicester (she had 3 daughters already over in England who were married and had children) but it's certainly the only picture of me and her at such an early age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Lastly here is a photo that really sums up the connections and strong links of many Irish families away from home...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/bakewell-st.html">Brendan Grady</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <i>Me & mum plus her relatives, Patsy & </i></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span>Genevieve<span style="line-height: 115%;"> McDowell with their 2 kids, (They emigrated to Australia in '70's). Plus also Kathleen Burns who was married to my Mum's cousin John Burns (from Liverpool) - John took most of the pics at this time {John and his brother Billy (rip) and sister Rose (rip) were brought up with my mother at their Grandma's in Forkhill Armagh during the 2nd WW , so they were always close. </span></i></span></span><br />
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<br />The Irish in Leicesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833872774235168342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504385191635707607.post-55017191817601447792013-02-11T16:49:00.001+00:002013-08-18T09:09:33.880+01:00Eamon Morton RIP<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eamon Morton </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have only had the pleasure of knowing Eamon Morton for <span style="font-size: small;">about a year and a h<span style="font-size: small;">al</span>f and a ni<span style="font-size: small;">cer, gentler man you could<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>not h<span style="font-size: small;">o</span>pe to fin<span style="font-size: small;">d<span style="font-size: small;">. He an<span style="font-size: small;">d his</span> wif<span style="font-size: small;">e <span style="font-size: small;">Patr<span style="font-size: small;">ic</span>ia </span><span style="font-size: small;"> lived on <a href="http://lynda-callaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/hobart-st.html">Hobart St</a> when they first came over<span style="font-size: small;"> and I was lucky enough to get to know the kindness, the sense of humour and<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> of course, t<span style="font-size: small;">he accor<span style="font-size: small;">dion that he was famed for.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today is a<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>very sad day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eamon entertaining at the <span style="font-size: small;">Emerald Centre</span> G<span style="font-size: small;">ala Day, Summer 2012<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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