We got a good start on our Holy Communion preparation work last week, and managed to have a bit of craic with family members as well ; we secured a lovely venue (choice of three, 'cause we were early on the hunt!), food menu decided and agreed on, colour scheme (table dressings, flowers, coasters, placemats etc) music choice (and volume!) and new outfits to change into.
More so nowadays than when we first started with the prep works years ago for Holy Communions and Confirmations, it's like planning for a mini wedding-type event now - nothing left to chance, 'Plan B's' in place just in case...!
Anyway - we'll be up to our usual shenanigans on Wednesday, 29th January 2025, as we'll be posting a 16-part blog on various instances in Ireland, which took place between the 18th Century and the year 2002...
Dublin, Ireland - born in the mid-18th Century in Ireland, and buried in what was then a quite cemetery in the heart of Dublin City Centre in the early 19th Century, this military and political revolutionary is not remembered as fittingly as he should be...
Ireland, South-East of the country, early 1920's - this IRA Battalion Commander was on a 'Most Wanted' list circulated by Westminster and their lackies in Dublin Castle, but always avoided capture. When some of his comrades decided to support the British in partitioning Ireland, he knew that his 'safe houses' were no longer safe, as the search party would now consist of former comrades-in-arms. He knew he had to look abroad...
Today, 2025, State and local politicians are in the process of people- trafficking so-called 'asylum seekers/refugees/migrants' into the State for reasons of financial gain and 'pats on the back' from their new bosses in the EU etc but, as can be read in this 23-year-old article, the same politicians once sold a complete coast of this country for a few hundred Euros...
We Irish gals were once made of sterner stuff than we are now (although some of us still carry the old DNA!) and, in the late 19th Century in Ireland, some of the less-than-sterner-stuff Ladies attempted to put societal shackles on the Ladies who still carried that old DNA...
The four pieces above will be explained in full, and twelve other articles as well : so, if yer not booked up with mini-wedding-type events yourself, give us a shout here on Wednesday, 29th January 2025.
Or may God forgive ya your sins if'n ya don't...!
Thanks for dropping in - hope to see yis all on the 29th!
Sharon and the team.
