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My Ventry Christmas Memories

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Christmas is a time for childhood dreams, a time of magic, and a time of giving. For all Christians, it is a celebration of the birth of the infant baby Jesus. My childhood Christmas memories in Ireland take me back to the West Kerry village of Ventry ( Ceann Trá) during the late 1950s and […]

Christmas Eve 1949 Was Like No Other.

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This is Jimmy’s story, not mine. Now an octogenarian, he told me this sad story from his early childhood in rural Ireland at a time before the arrival of the electric light to the district where he lived. It relates to Christmas 1949 when he was nine years old. Jimmy tells the story in his […]