Continued from Volume 28
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:22:55 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, here's our 29th volume of the guestbook! The site will be five
years old in June by the way! Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 09:30:06 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Oh, and would the various politicians mind forwarding their applications
and appropriate fees for permission to canvass on this site please? All major credit cards
accepted, a bankers card should accompany all cheques and brown envelopes can be slid
under the door. ;-)
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:36:26 PM
Email: ismiseeire@F&F.ie
Name: P J Marra
Message: A Stuitheohoir, de an website seo, ta alan bron orm go bhfuil tu ag
seeking an filthy luchar for providing canvassing space for our glorious candidates on
this fair site. Sure has'nt michael go easyjetting O'Leary allowed the soldiers of destiny
free space on the backs of each seat and outside of each plane for de purposes of
returning the drumcondra sage (mater accountancy package)and stateman of vision back with
a thumping majority (like Mr Blairs) to de Dail. Indeed an Post have allowed us to put a
finna fail message on the outside of our opponents canvassing material letters, what a
stroke and wheeze. Sure wee'll scratch your back plenty after de election. PJ
Date: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 01:15:21 PM
Email: lucky.lucan@flood.t.ie
Name: William Lalor
Message: Would someone pass a big fat brown manila under me cell door to pay off de
legal eagles, cause the're costing me a fortune to restore me good name and reputation.
Did yes know there is 550 ways in and out of de Joy without using de doors? and not alot
of people know dat!
Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 12:03:36 AM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Apologies for using the site to make contact! Message for John Ward author
of "Memories of the Rosses". We just found your story, but no E-mail. You never
mentioned your close relations, Gillens of 3 Greenlands.We would love to make contact
again with Glasgow as the Cullen's of Tureen St.have all gone now.God Bless. Anne. Cheers
to all at the Point.Enjoy the summer.
Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:24:08 PM
Email: ea@mount st.ie
Name: Election agent
Message: My deer ciaran agra, sure an' couldn't ye for once be a dacent Oirishman
and cease this seeking payment for everything from headage for cattle to having yer bulls
debulled and yer houses reroofed and yer roads unpotholed and new bypasses for towns and
villages and free replacement hips for one and all over 65 and on top of that the blind
pension, the widows pensions the oprhans allowance and the childers allowance. Surely when
ye read this yez can see plan and simple why us the standing men and wimmen of Ireland in
the Dail require fat brown paper bags.
Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:30:10 PM
Email: GH@princes street
Name: Gillooley Hall
Message: Yet again my floors and walls are to be abused verbally by tallymen,
screeching women, those who want to be and those who cannot be and those who will be
Teedees. Only I'm a sacred place I would use a profanity here. My walls have seen and
heard it all by now. Drama, bazaars, Marist school at one time even held here, political
rallies, school concerts, meetings, sales of work, sales to save men from destitution
after their premises were flooded for the umpteenth time, John Gilbride and his exhibit of
Model T's, Foley from Oakfield and his aeroplane, a pioneeer but I don't know if he ever
joined the Pioneers that meet here. Tis a feats or famine in here, either all noise or all
quiet. Nor even the McPartlands ghosts to be seen or heard these days.
Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:37:36 PM
Email: jl@csf
Name: johnnie
Message: we of the Christian Sodality Party axe ye fer yer No.1 in every booth and
polling place on Friday next. A vote fer me is a vote fer yerself and tis time we stoped
the French Post Office having a monopoly on letters in Ireland. Every man and woman to be
married and produce 21 children for the state. All to attned church every day and twice on
Sundays. No pubs open on Sundays, Holy Days of Obligation or after midnight the rest of
the time. RTE onlt to show the Three Stooges and Holy Plays in betwen the Angelus and the
Rosary on the hour.
Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 11:58:45 PM
Email: ha@sligo.ie
Name: Handy Andy
Message: I have to put the Mac name back in the dail, for too long there was not a
MacSharry there and when he was there he was ignored and then he was promoted and ignored
more, so then they deported him to foreign parts and by that means ejected him from the
leather seated Merc and I'm going to take both seats back, the one in the Merc by pushing
the lever under the seat and the one in the dail by youse voting for me early and often on
Friday. PS bring your polling card to prove you voted to mac's bar and I'll trate ye that
nite.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:03:03 AM
Email: UI@here
Name: United Independents
Message: To the decent people of Sligo and Leitrim we are yer only chance to have
four first class men and one woman to represent (we will insist it is a 5 seater
constituency) you in seeking the fair share of the national cake for our constituency. For
far too long the greedy motherless sods of the rest of Ireland have been stealing and
eating our share of the cake hence we are starved. And to add to this they have also been
taking our clothes, our railways - even the engines and carriages - our roads, laneways
and our water from us. No wonder we are in such a state of chassis!!!
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:03:43 AM
Email: tyc@rossespoint
Name: The Yacht Club
Message: So that's who stole the yachts from Rosses Point!
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:04:35 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Oh come back Paddy Reilly to Ballysjamesduff, come back Paddy Reilly to
meeeeeeeeee
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:05:29 AM
Email: misguan@knocknarea
Name: Maeve
Message: Och MM ye can't bate Percy French, now give us a bar of Are Ye Right there
Michael.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 12:10:11 AM
Email: hm@buckhouse.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: Phil the Greek put his foot in his mouth once again and almost ruined my
jubilee. Imagine telling that stupid joke about eating dogs to a poor frail old lady and
we with more millions added from mummy!!! I was thrilled by the streaker the other day
when he ran naked in front of my limousine. Why could he not have run toward me rather
than away from me. I have rerun the video clip so many times, he was indeed well hung.
Made Phil jealous . .he requires a tweezer to have a leek in the welsh countryside. Haw
Haw.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 at 04:06:43 AM
Email: misguan@knocknarea
Name: Maeve
Message: Out of curiousity does anyone know if Albert Ruadh of Carrowrow attended
the conference in the Hawk's Well? He might have learned about the knives and forks found
here in Carrowmore and have more respect for the forthcoming diggings along the new way.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 12:31:42 PM
Email: ?fed.de.gondolas@gormless.com
Name: Town clerk Sligo Burrow Council
Message: Post No Bills! Is Mise Le Meas, Paidin de Suil Geal, Town Clerk, City
Hall, Sligeach, Eire, British Iles, Western Europe, Earth, De Solar System, De Milky
Galaxy, De Universe (multicultural Eire, I don't mean dat Catholic church publication).
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002 at 12:48:32 PM
Email: Mford@red.begonias.ie
Name: Matthew Fordham
Message: Vote for me and get true representation for Sligo in the dail, get our
relief road through, roundabouts on the N15 North, an off shore financial services centre
for Coney Island and 50% mix of social housing in all new developments in Rosses Point!,
Strandhill to be named a international cultural world heritage site and the re-development
of the Savoy Cinema as 200 Ft screen IMax cinema showing 24hr Westlife videos and Arthouse
films made in Donegal and the Glens of Leitrim. So remember me, the model T numero 1 on
polling day for representation with creative integrity!, H. M. Ford de III
Date: Monday, May 13, 2002 at 03:54:18 AM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: If The Savoy is remodelled will Paddy Forde and his magic torch be once
again in charge of evictions of rowdies and spoiler of the boys and girls feeling their
way around the double seats along the side walls of the cinemas. And will revamping
include resettling the fleas to a new house? And what about the Savoy Grill and Pharmacy?
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:39:44 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I'm of the opinion that the fight is gone from the people of Rosses Point
and Coney Island. No electioneering outside church, chaple or in a public house. No
fisticuffs, no polis baton charges. With your hole free soles in yer shoes, and no breeze
blowing through the place where the seat of your pants used to be and yer fine fast motor
cars - with heaters and air-conditioners I might add - twould appear to me that yez all
have gone soft in the head!
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:44:30 AM
Email: le@marketcross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: And ye think that's bad MM, MacLaughlin's Pub is up for sale! Oh woe is me
and not even one squeak, squawk or squeal from either FG at Griffith's Corner or FF at the
GPO. Joyce wrote in Ulysses "Weep not for me Mother Erin" and now I have no
choice but to weep for myself.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:47:52 AM
Email: wby@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Romantic Ireland 'tis indeed dead and gone but not with O'Leary in the
grave, no 'tis far away in Australia. Indeed if Ossian were to come back to Erin now what
would he say after his sojourn in Tir nA Nog? And the Countess Con who cannot get erected
anywhere what would she think, what she thought a hundred years ago: the peelers is
bastards!
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:50:35 AM
Email: smaf@holycross
Name: St Martin at the Friary
Message: Joyce also had Bloom the Jew ask for prayers, and that is what I will do
for you lot of outdoor statues. All I hope is that if Con ever gets erected she has a
strong flesh and a weak spirit, for you don't know what blackguard is on the roads these
days!
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 12:58:24 AM
Email: pam@townhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs St Martin, yer right about blackguards. In my time at least there
was a decent class of a blackguard, but man dear let me say this, there is nothing like
the shower around me some nights here in the Town Hall Council Chamber. I can only say
that they don't know their a#se from their elbow. Come to think of it I often wonder why
so many of them are indeed always scratching their elbows. Just proves my point, piles are
on their rear ends. Maybe someone in the press could tell them? Did I ever tell you about
Alderman John Jinks in 1927 bringing the Manorhamilton Fife & Drum Band to Sligo to
lead his election parade around Sligo from his home to Griffiths' Corner? The speech over
he invited the band to his public house and bar in Stephen Street. After an hour of all
the bandsmen getting free drink, Mrs Jinks could not tell band members from hangers on, so
up she stands on a barrell and shouts out, "No more free frink for a bandsman unless
he has his flute in his hand!"
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 01:00:21 AM
Email: tmpr@sligo
Name: The Monument at Pearse Road
Message: To think this is what the men and women of Sligo town and County that I
represent, fought and died for.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 01:04:45 AM
Email: gc@sligo
Name: Griffith's Corner
Message: No riots, no hecklers, no fights on Harmony Hill between the Finan and the
McManus clans, no Blind Paddy Healy asking some one to hold his glass eye so that he could
join in! Tis right ye are Metal Man! The last great oration's here were in October 1961
from James Dillon and Gerry Foley. Sligo was then seeking its share of the national cake
and here we are 41 years on and the crumbs have not yet arrived from Dublin. That's what
happens with a national railway.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 01:06:47 AM
Email: wl@lucan ice cream
Name: William Lawlor
Message: what about me namesake from the C Road who tried to stand for the peedeeds
and was bate by a young fellow who wasn't even on the ballot paper?
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 01:14:25 AM
Email: tp@ie
Name: The Poll
Message: Well, here we go the circus comes to the entire country for the next few
days: this time Saturday some will be drunk with excitment, others crying into their beer
and others moaning and holding their heads in their hands. And the scramble for
ministerial Mercedes will be exactly what a shower of thundering gobs%*tes look like who
were elected by an even bigger shower of thundering gobs%*tes!!!!
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 02:05:10 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Who's that crooning "After the poll was over" ?
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 11:45:40 PM
Email: trd@tdshouse
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: Begobs it took me till the 6th count but, I'm in the door. Now things can
only get better for Sligo. All together now " A town and county once a again . . .
.Where's the ceile band when you need one? No, we can;t use the jazz lads, like soccer
that's foreign stuff. All for Ireland now and all Irish products and culture only to be
used.
Date: Monday, May 20, 2002 at 01:21:13 AM
Email: bn@stjohns castle
Name: Michael of Limerick
Message: Oh mavrone mo mavrone what have you done to me, and to make it worse I
habe no more hair to pull from my baldy conscience. Oh to think of it, oh to dream of it,
and no I'm not Right there Michael either. Still it cudda bin worse, look what the ferret
did to the spring!!
Date: Monday, May 20, 2002 at 01:25:19 AM
Email: tb@bertiebowl
Name: The Boss
Message: Be the powers of all, fair play to yez yez putt me and Celia back in the
Drumcondra way. I'll not forget yez at all. More blind pensions for all, and free milk for
everyone. Young Jimmy Devins will be buying milch cows for every household in Sligo. .
.and Leitrim too. The first export from Sligo Harbour (refurbished) will be not one
million, but two million bags of the best Sligo rags. Now let me not hear the begrudgers
saying that this will leave the pople naked, no because we won't take their undies. PS
Celia doesn't wear any:)
Date: Monday, May 20, 2002 at 01:27:15 AM
Email: td@extd
Name: Tralee Dick
Message: Well that's political life. I have me fine pension after all.
Date: Monday, May 20, 2002 at 01:28:38 AM
Email: mh@pd.ie
Name: Mary Harney
Message: Miracle!!!!! Ascension Thursday did it! Or was it because we dropped that
thundering eejit from the c road?
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:22:47 AM
Email: tb@drumcondra
Name: The Boss
Message: Meself and Celia are tinking of taken a few days rest and relaxation in
Rosses Point. The past few weeks have bin horrendus pressure on de two of us. PS Is there
a good anorak shop in Sligo?
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:27:43 AM
Email: sob@eejit.ent
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: I haven't seen as many applicants for a place in the asylum in as many
years as there are applicants. And all their letters are soaking wet and the each have a
recommendation attached signed by Gerry and Bertie! Poor Mary of the Bath . . musta bin
slippery rails made her lose track? Never mind she can always be station master or gate
keeper at Knockcroghery. Still she has good company . . the Big Fellow's grand niece also
got her behind kicked. Imagine the loss of prestige these poor eejits will now suffer. No
more illusions of grandeur, just plain people of Ireland.
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 12:56:28 PM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, Anyone who will be in the Sligo area on Saturday the 25th of May
is invited to the official opening of Sligo Bay Lifeboat station and launch of the new
lifeboat "Elsinore". Proceedings kick off at 3pm at the station which is located
at the pier in Rosses Point. Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 12:10:29 AM
Email: marodaly@eircom.net
Name: Michael/Mary Daly, Limerick.
Message: Brings back memories of 10 happy years in Ballincar. Will never be
superseded as the nicest part of Ireland. An excellent site.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 06:25:07 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I am organizing a special prayer meeting at the Hotel for Sunday, and we
will hold a Resurrection Meeting for the local Fine Gael Party. Sunny Ray of Alcantara and
The Reel Doc will come to give illustrated slides on how to galvanize the supporters. Fine
examples of brown paper bags and envelopes will be available on the day.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 06:33:43 AM
Email: time@coneyisland.ie
Name: The Clock in Wards Pub
Message: Alderman Declan Bree and his partner rowed out to Coney Island from Sligo
town (on the ebbing tide, saved pulling a stroke) to recuperate after his harrowing
election defeat. Martin Ford true man of the people is camping at the Holy Well. The Reel
Doc is still in a state of shock, while the original Doc is sunning himself in Cootehall.
(Rumor has it his old friend the peeler Malachy will be appointed Chief Super there.) Yer
man Ellis is at the mart milking - farmers or bovines? McManus is back at the drawing
board, Handy Andy is patrolling the fences,John McCrea is having a recount, while yer man
in South Sligo is discovering more of his posters in drains. Perry is Fine once again,
while Reynolds is not fine at all, at all, and Marian is at the shrine!!! Roll on 2007!!!
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 06:36:37 AM
Email: unknown
Name: The man from c road
Message: Amn't I delighted that I did not stand in this election for Mary of the
pee dees, to think of the slagging that I would have had to put up with here, worse than
the anti canvassing that young man did against me the last time.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 09:47:55 PM
Email: mm@rossepoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: And perchance would that Michael Daly be once of the IDA in Sligo?
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 09:49:25 PM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Why is Dubya not visiting Sligo and Rosses Point? After all Mary says that
Boston is closer to Ieland than Berlin and isn't that the truth for us here in Sligo.
Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 at 02:59:37 AM
Email: doreen.colvin@sympatico
Name: Doreen Colvin
Message: I am looking for any information on my grandfather, Hugh Gillen who owned
"Gillen's Imperial Pub" on Kerr Street, Portrush. He died around 1917. I
understand he came from Coleraine but I cannot verify that with any proper records. He was
married to Margaret Friel of Omagh. Their fifth child, Margaret Gillen, was my mother. She
was born in 1911. I have been unable to find any records of their births, marriage or
death certificates. I was wondering if there are any Gillens in County Sligo who might
recognize this side of a Gillen family. Thank you. Doreen Colvin
Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 at 05:57:22 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: A brave women to mention "Imperial" in light of recent events in
the Giloolley Hall. A burning question: was the ro sober?
Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 at 06:02:03 AM
Email: them@useverywhere
Name: The Electorate
Message: Why were we not given a voice here before the votes were cast while all
the fellows and the one woman we cast them for were given cast iron spots to voice their
opinion of what they think our opinion of them on their opinion of what the think we think
we want for Sligo and Leitrim? PS Will The Reel Doc and MArion of the Shrine change one
iota when their little botties hit the green leather seats of Leinster House . . .like so
many before them.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 05:41:22 AM
Email: fg@mountst.ie
Name: Fine Gael
Message: ADVERTISEMENT (FREE) Wanted, a man or woman with personality, verve and
style. Be like Jesus Christ: be all over Ireland at the one time. Capable of keeping the
North out and in at the same time. Be able to make false promises that match other peoples
and appear to deliver them, when they have not and never can be delivered. Have a magic
wand that can erect a hospital, school, marina or bertie bowl anywhere in the promised
land. Provide many new jobs but no work, blind pensions for all and cheap motor car
insurance with larger court payouts when accidents occur. At the next election return Fine
Gael to government on their own
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 05:00:50 PM
Email: tony@awbruen.fsnet.co.uk
Name: Tony Bruen
Message: Many thanks for the view around this lovely seaside village. I have had a
look through the family history and have come to the conclusion that the Bruen name is
'greater' than I thought, being spread far and wide and it also appears to be should I
say, 'selective' in the various locations. Looking for my grand father Patrick as he was
known to me, has proved more confusing than I care to think about just now. The link to
Jimmy Bruen the golfer (born in Belfast 1920 so I have found and died in Co Cork 1972)
seems to have fallen flat. Will continue to search wherever the tide takes me, even if it
means a trip to Ireland. I had a three week 'business' trip to Belfast way back in 1966
but that totals my Irish connection. Again, many thanks and all the very best to all. Tony
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 02:26:29 AM
Email: extd@coothall
Name: Himself
Message: Anyone who wants proof of a family conection to Gillen, Bruen et al just
contact me and I will create all the documents you want.
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 03:35:19 AM
Email: ff@mountst
Name: The only republican party
Message: FREE AD!!! Wanted a man or woman who can continue to fool most of the
people of Ireland the entire time whilst we carry the bags to ansbacker and foreign places
roam. All in the name of doing good for Ireland, and after all why shoudl we do it free
while you lot have all this money to give away.
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 03:38:31 AM
Email: mb@custume bridge
Name: Mary of the bath
Message: Oh wasn't that Donnie an awful chap to rustle my voters from me, and here
was I thinking that with Albert gone the country and western days were over. Still there
is Seanda Eireann and I don't even have to seek one vote, just threaten to tickle Betie's
little mousy if he doesn't give it to me. . .she seat ye eejit! Go wash yer mind and yer
mouth with lifebouy!
Date: Monday, May 27, 2002 at 01:19:48 AM
Email: marion@theshrine
Name: Marion
Message: Dear Electorate of Sligo/Leitrim (yes, ye cost me a fortune)I am going to
propose that as part of decentralization of government that Dail Eireann be moved to
Oyster Island, after all, how far more remote from Dublin can you be. I had considered
Inishmurray, but that is to sacred a place. And it has no sewerage. I might be a woman of
the people and for the people, but I like a comfortable loo, preferably centrally heated.
Date: Monday, May 27, 2002 at 01:27:50 AM
Email: jag@hotmail.com
Name: John Aloysious Gillen
Message: Hi, I'm looking for relatives of my great great great grandfather Patrick
Gillen who was born in Sligo sometime in the 1600s. His father was a blacksmith in Carney,
the capitol of Maugherow, and he married a woman Matilda Bruen. Her family ran a bus
service between Sligo and Ballyweelin. As I am the last of my family I am seeking a
relative to leave my considerable fortune to. All communication to Howley, Carter Solrs.
Sligo. Ireland. Please include photos and birth, marriage and death certificate for you
and all of your ancestors and 100 Euro, refundable to genuine relations only.
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 02:12:20 AM
Email: ag@rossespoint.com
Name: Austie
Message: I often heard me mother talk about them Bruens'. They had the first bus
service in Sligo county. They bought a second hand Leyland bus from Flannery in Drumcliffe
back in 1702. Was always blowing head gaskets! So the bus never got past Drumcliffe
bridge.
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 02:13:13 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint
Name: Seagull
Message: So that's how they kept the Carneyites out of Sligo town.
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 09:48:14 AM
Email: Bertie@parka.com
Name: Bertie Et al
Message: Good people of Sligo, tanks very much for putting de good doctor in de
dail, don't expect much for Sligo dough, as ya know even when yez had a minster yez know
de pie iz too small after de porkers from Galway, Mayo and de good doc to de destitute
from dun na gal, get der snouts in de trough. Still Sligonians, if yez think yez are too
small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito! Bartholomew hern de 1st
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 06:43:20 PM
Email: pam@sligotownhall
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Well don't say you were not warned. See how Bertie sans anorak plus Celia
and the Reel Doc fooled the lot of you over the bypass. At least The Doc was honest when
he done ye! Come to think of it he must have been the one who dreamt up the slogan for the
envelopes. . .
Date: Friday, May 31, 2002 at 08:45:42 AM
Email: tb@drumcondrapub
Name: The Boss
Message: Meself and Mary are going to do a pilgrimage to all of de Holy Wells in
Oirland to prey fer a good government and to seek guidance in our plans, especially fer de
bertie bowl. An' we promise to sleep in separate rooms whilst on dis pilgrimage. Mary
wanted to do it on foot, but the oul Merc is bether, quicker too. The Reel Doc says
there's holy wells on Oyster, Coney and Inishmurray Islands. . .still and all yez have the
Elsinore life boat now to save us.
Date: Friday, May 31, 2002 at 08:47:59 AM
Email: teb@the cleft of alt
Name: The Echo
Message: Be better to go to the IMF on yer hands and knees and then to Annes Backer
to plead for the return of the escaped loot. Who countersigned the piece of paper in the
back room on the south bank in stephen street, thats what I would like to know.
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 12:47:54 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Would you credit this, entries from this guest book are now being quoted
and mis-quoted in scholarly discussions around the globe! I hear on the grapvine there
will be a big yacht in Sligo at the end of the month.
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 12:49:03 AM
Email: td@andail.ie
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: See, I have already begun to heal the sick of Sligo. One million to the
airport to repair the potholes in the runway.
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 07:33:49 PM
Email: jwhit59@attglobal.net
Name: Jim White
Message: My name is Jim White, and I am the great grandson of John White and Mary
Ann Young. John was born1804, in the Lissadell area. Mary Ann, the daughter of Alex &
Rebecca Young , was born in 1808. John and Mary Ann had 9 children . ( George-1827;
Catherine-1829; Ann-1832; Sarah-1834; Mary 1-1836; John-1839; Elizabeth-1842; Mary 11 -
1844-Albion; and Hannah-1846-Albion). . Family Folklore has it that Mary Ann was the only
daughter of a successful land owner, and was disinherited when she married John. When her
father, Alexander, died, cir 1835, there was no one left to inherit his estate. A lawyer
searching for heirs in Ontario,1834, 99 years after her father's death. Since no one was
located, the estate, ns, was transferred to the Irish Gov't. There was supposedly a large
mansion on top of the hill. I would like to hear from anyone who has any info on the John
White or Mary Ann Young Families.
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002 at 09:54:57 PM
Email: j.w.chambers@att.net
Name: Joyce Walker (Gillen) Chambers
Message: WOW!! What a site! I have been attempting to help one of my boys,
Christopher Matthew Gillen, (brother Henry William Andrew Gillen) research his family, as
we never knew much. We think they came from Sligo in the mid 19th century. We know is that
Matt's grandfather, Henry William Gillen, was said to have run away from home at 13,
apprenticed with a photographer in Jamestown, NY, spent time in New York City, LOVED Coney
Island and moved to Norfolk, Virginia to live near the ocean. His father was William
Gillen, mother was Martha Newman (or Neuman). Gillie was in the Army in World War I
working at Columbia University teaching photography, took progress pictures of the Panama
Canal, had a photography shop and camera shop in Norfolk, married his second wife, Mary
Lou White, had twin boys, Henry Barry and William Larry in 1944, and died in 1950. If
anyone there can be of any help to us in researching this, we would really appreciate it.
Joyce Walker (Gillen) Chambers
Date: Friday, June 07, 2002 at 12:37:47 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Bad enougg changin' the train times out of Sligo, now they go and alter
the bus timetable to Galway and Derry. Do they think we have only time to read timetables,
we eat at the table at mealtime and that's the time we spend at the table reading the
Sliog Lyre Players Weekly and the Midweeker, and now they want us to read the timetable
for trains and buses. What next take off and departure times for Aer Oyster and Coney?
Date: Friday, June 07, 2002 at 08:53:56 PM
Email: ABarr10258@aol.com
Name: Loretta Quinlan Barr
Message: Visited Rosses Point several years ago and fell in love with it.
Date: Saturday, June 08, 2002 at 04:08:46 PM
Email: dev@gov.ie
Name: De longfella
Message: Dear Daoine of Sligeach, me grand wee niece has been uncermoniously bereft
of her ministry for not been able to talk de cupla focail, agus nach bhfuil de good
doctuir to de acutely disturbed out on his thoin le gaoithe. Not to be confused with your
good doctuir of Sligeach, who did'nt get a sniff of an office junior's post in de all star
blockbuster "Soldiers of Destiny" de final frontier! Is mise lemass Dev.
Date: Saturday, June 08, 2002 at 04:23:21 PM
Email: finbar@fancy.focail.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Happy 5th birthday to the site and all the cast! Its v quiet, Where are
all the old favorites? Has the metal man been scrapped, lady Erin eloped with Teeling to
Killala, Queen Maeve retired in her jubilee year. Or has PJ McHugh been finally knocked
off his pedestal despite surviving many years in the middle of the traffic at the end of
Knox street. Has seagull been filletted in the props of the Aer Arran express? or the
sheep on oyster upped and left because of the view? Is it true that St Martin in the
friary has been suspended and St Ascicus in de cathedral has a son in the states.
Date: Sunday, June 09, 2002 at 02:40:56 PM
Email: tmp@theuniverse
Name: the moving pen
Message: deer sur, the afore mentioned beautiful statutes of Sligo are on vacation.
They arrived in Chocago on Saturday June 8 and will be moving around the United States.
Watch out for postcards on the guestbook, tis cheaper than postage. I can guarantee that
they will all be at The Pub Oconomowoc on Sat and Sun June 15/16 for The Yeats Joyce
Weekend.
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002 at 12:41:44 PM
Email: pasomewhere
Name: P.A. McHugh
Message: Well here we are in Illinois, though everyone appears to be well. St.
MArtin caught three fish on Lake Metonga while W B and Lady Erin rowed around the lake
pedalling a little boat. W B was reciting his nine and fifty swans says it reminded him of
Coole. I would be delighted if it was cool!! We're off to the pub!
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 01:14:41 PM
Email: WB on vacation
Name: WB Yeats
Message: Well, I haven't seen rain like this since I was in Chicago all those 80 or
more years back. Now there are only a half dozen or more horse and carriages. Indeed
changed times, juts like Sligo town people rushing everywhere and going nowhere.
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 03:34:38 PM
Email: gull@harryswithMMloweringcreamypintsofguinness
Name: Seagull
Message: OLÉ OLÉ OLÉ OLÉ!! LOOK OUT WORLD, HERE COME THE BOYS IN GREEN!!! COME
ON IRELAND!!!!
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 04:32:05 AM
Email: sanjose@theshannonarms.com
Name: San Jose
Message: I read the messages on the Captains log.I am sorry to have missed the
Monthly prayer meeting,and the Welsh choral singing in Harrys. A reminder to Frankie, dont
forget to send Bobbie Bear a card for his birthday on july 4th,he will be 67,tell the fan
club.
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 at 05:20:58 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Paddy Bruen was very ill in Hacketts for quite a few days..bad chest
infection
Date: Sunday, June 16, 2002 at 04:15:37 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Well done The lads..They done us proud!!!!!! I`m proud to be
Irish..........
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 at 11:24:40 AM
Email: Fox@Lair.ie
Name: Freddie Fox
Message: I got Devaney's Geese at last. They were very tasty. I'm going after
Malachy Gillen's next. Watch this space.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 10:30:10 AM
Email: Metal.Man@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The village is full of cops and special branch men. What's happening? Is
the Queen coming or is Captain Frank Devaney coming home? I'm going ashore to find out.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 10:42:22 AM
Email: Metal.Man@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Something very rum going on here. The Gardai have installed a metal
detector at the hotel. I'll never get through. I'm going to try Austies.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 10:56:59 AM
Email: Metal.Man@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Austies is closed. I'll try Hacketts.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 02:51:29 PM
Email: Metal.Man@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Just had a drink with Prince Michael of Kent. He's a cheeky chappie.
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 at 09:35:38 AM
Email: tunnelvision16@yahoo.com
Name: jimbo
Message: interesting to say the least.
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 at 10:51:03 AM
Email: gull@thelighthouse
Name: Seagull
Message: MM, I fear the stout has gone to your head rather swiftly...the gentleman
you met was Edward, Duke of Kent...oh dear, oh dear, methinks senility has at last taken a
grip of our dear Metal Man...or perhaps it's fatigue, metal fatigue that is. (snigger)
Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 at 03:54:46 PM
Email: mickey.long@ntlworld.com
Name: Mickey Long
Message: Anyone for Tennis.......! Well it's that time of year again and Ashley and
myself will be over on the 1st August with the kids for more of the same. Golf, Austies,
Harry and more Harry's really. I hope you are all looking after the in-laws, Gerant &
Olivia. Will also be bringing young Tarquin over this year if there is anyone out there he
still owes money to. See ya in a few weeks. Mickey & Ashley.
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:17:26 PM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Hi, to Finola O Connor out there somewhere in the big wide world. I had
intended sending you birthday wishes yesterday but didn't make it to rossespoint.com. I
think of you each year on June 25th but I think this one is special! Am I correct? I wish
you all that you wish for yourself and hope you are very happy. God bless Anne And thanks
to this site for contacts.
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002 at 09:05:43 PM
Email: john.r.lyons@verizon.net
Name: Jennifer Lyons
Message: We are doing some family history and have learned that my husband's
gg-grandfather was Thomas Ross from Drumcliff. Are there Ross relatives still in the area?
Continued in Volume 30