(29) Firstly today we have a photograph of my aunt, Mary Daly (nee Creagh) on the right with an unknown person. I’m still relying on some input from relatives to help identify the people in the photographs. This was certainly taken at Pen Y Fai or Glan Rhyd Hospitals, which were two psychiatric hospital adjacent …
I am bound to get some stick for this – so I will start by embarrassing myself. I have set myself the task of scanning some of the many family photographs that I have. It’s a good way of sharing them among far flung family members – and having a laugh at changing fashions. They …
Creagh Day 2 The next Creagh Day gathering is tentatively proposed for Friday 20th /and Saturday 21st July 2012. This is the weekend before the official opening of the 2012 London Olympics, which hopefully may suit anyone coming from some distance away for the Olympics to conviently attend the real event in the village of …
I had to make a sad journey a few weeks ago, back to the village of Ballyporeen, where my Mother’s side of the family hailed from. My aunt “Phillie” (Philomena – I think) died this year after a long and difficult illness at her home in Melbourne. Her son David brought her ashes home to …