Continued from Volume 30
Date: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 08:21:05 PM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
A new volume for 2003! The latest update is that I've finally gotten around to uploading
Katie Haran from Coney Islands' visitors book from the 70's and 80's. You can go directly
to it from here. There is also
a link from the Coney Island page.
I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who visited the Island in the 70's and
80's...you'd never know, maybe you signed Katie's book at the time!
Best rgds, Ciaran
Date:
Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 12:27:29 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: The "Fans of Dubya" have invited me to edit a book of essays
portraying the charitable qaulities, which are many of Dubya. The Metal Man has kindly
agreed to be publisher and printer, as he is the only one on this site never to have lied
in his life, one way or the other. The essays must be not more than 6 pages, with a
maximum of 6 words to a page in large letters and written slowly as Dubya cannot read
fast. Title suggestions: "Dubya: friend of the poor of the world, especially homeless
Arabs, Palestinians and Africans." "Father and Son: Daddy and Dubya, inheritors
of the voice behind the burning bush" "Bush the upholder of democracy using
pregnant chads" Anyway friends these are samples. Send essay to Seamus O'Gallagher, E
A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men The Bowery New York. God Bless America
Date:
Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 12:32:14 AM
Email: qm@misguan
Name: Maeve
Message: Dear Begobs when I was up in Cavan 'twas all lakes and bogs. If yez want a
dacent runaway meself and himself could export the one from Lar Easa and we might have
peace and quiet here. Himself reminded me of the time we were in a bad way for fertiliser
and we saw a troop of mane Cavan motherless sods coming along the bohreen and I lay down
on the road and waved me legs in the air miles apart and it did the trick as they ran away
leaving a yella trail. Begobs we had great turnips that year
Date:
Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 07:27:23 AM
Email: jgarch@zemail.com.au
Name: Janet Grey
Message: I am the grandaughter of Margaret Gillen from Rosses Point. I never met my
grandnmother as she died before I was borne which was in Sydney Australia where I live. My
father, Ernie Grey, was one of Margaret's 8 sons. I have only just discovered the website
and feel nostalgic for a place that I have never known but hope to one day.
Date:
Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 02:38:18 PM
Email: dominic.keane@bnm.ie
Name: Dominic Keane
Message: Ann and myself have booked our house with Hazel Gillen for our annual
August holiday in the Point for 03. This will be our 22nd August in a row holidaying in
the Point . We left Sligo for Cork in 1981. We enjoy it better as the years go bye.
Regards to all our friends in the Point. Dominic and Ann Keane.
Date: Monday, January 13, 2003 at 04:40:55 AM
Email: wby@the bank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: I presume the previous message is in code.
Date: Monday, January 13, 2003 at 04:41:56 AM
Email: le@crean's cross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I presume Willie 'tis what they call marse code.
Date: Monday, January 13, 2003 at 04:42:48 AM
Email: tm@collooney
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: To think this is what we fought and died for, pups that cannot
communicate.
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 04:10:39 PM
Email: v
Name: visitor
Message: Dear Mr. Devaney, do we have to have mindless people attempting to destroy
this great guest book. Can you please remove these totally irrelevant and idiotic
messages?
Date: Friday, January 17, 2003 at 09:12:41 AM
Email: webmaster@rossespoint.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
Apologies for not tidying up the rubbish left by those who cannot be bothered to contribute anything of sense. It will be removed by this evening.
Rgds, Ciaran
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 08:34:15 PM
Email: conorbree@eircom.net
Name: conor bree
Message: This is a great website and I really like it. from Conor Bree 87 Crozon Park sligo
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 09:43:41 PM
Email: doodydi@eircom.net
Name: Diane Corish
Message: enjoyed your website from Carnesore point coastguards
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 12:57:10 PM
Email: robertc@harland-wolff.com
Name: Robert Childs
Message: Hi I'm researching ships built by harland and wolff - do you have any
paintings details of the "Galgorm Castle" which is refenced in a number of your
pages. Many Thanks Robert
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 01:10:33 AM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: The Teeling Monument
Message: The men, boys and girls of Colooney, Coollaney Carrignagat and Branchfield
are armed with pikes, pitchforks, etc etc and are prepared to defend Ireland against all
who try to remove their subsidies, dole, headage grants, ewe replacement schemes, milk
bonuses and other tax payer grants to non taxpayers in the County of Sligo. To the
tractors all!!!!!
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 04:05:05 PM
Email: bertie@dail.ie
Name: The man without the anorak
Message: How yez all down dere in Shligo. Yez probably read in The Indo me young
wan got a millin dollars to rite a booek. Now I'm not much offa reader meself, but yez
know yerself the ould party doesn't give me much time for relaxing. What with all dem
state papers and bills and bills for electric at home begobs I have enuff reading. And
between you and me and the gate post dem tribs, honestly every time I read a report me
hair stands on me head! Anyway wat I wanted to say was to ask yez to buy a copy the young
wan's booek when it comes out. Slan
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 04:30:41 PM
Email: sh#*@irag.palace
Name: Sad man in Iraq
Message: I urgently requierr the phone numburr for The E A FitzPAtrick Asylum for
widowed and orphaned men. I haf lots of brown paper bags filled with the black stuff.
Hurry pleeze before it leaks. There are many ships, planes, tanks and tractors, yes
tractors beating to my door. The tractors all have large signs with someone elses name not
mine of them. What is Walsh? Is it a manure?
Date: Friday, January 24, 2003 at 04:07:17 PM
Email: qm@misguan
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Oh begobs, yer bringing tears to me eyes, imagine you knew Alfie's Flea
circus down in Adelaide Street. Do you mind the lollipops he made? Did ye ever know about
Joe's holiday in Belgium in 1972? He went with a right shower of latchico's from Sligo
Marist PPU; including John "Neighbour'Fallon and Mick Carroll, Pascal Morrison and
yer man Foley out in Australia. I belive the antics began once the train pulled away from
Sligo station and were non-stop till they came back again.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 12:47:29 AM
Email: le@creansx.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I see the County Councilors are on about the new road once again. This
must be a record debate. Albert the Red is afeared of the men and women with knives and
forks looking for artifacts might come across something of such vast importance they might
delay progress. The only artifact's delaying progress in Sligo are the human ones.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 04:00:41 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: I hear that the mid-block route is to be called The Expressway when it is
completed!
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 09:02:43 PM
Email: dmdr96@hotmail.com
Name: DENISE MAHON
Message: we used to holiday here as children, i have so many happy memories. i
would like to take my mum back to stay over Easter anyone know of any self-catering
accommodation to let? not caravans! thankyou
Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 08:33:16 AM
Email: betiesans anorak@andail.ie
Name: The Boss
Message: Bejabbers this is bleeding terrible news. How am I goan to face de peeble
of Ireland about dis atall atall? Do any of yez down dere in Shligo know where I can get a
jet on the never never, even Bowmaker's won't give me a cent anymore. Me credit is run out
and the young one's millins won't be through fer anudder few years, at least dat wat she
says to me. Who would wan't to be teeshock of any country bates me anyway. Nutting but
truble.
Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 08:37:09 AM
Email: pam@ town hall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Get on yer bike man, like we did. Why Mick Collins never had to use a jet
once in his life although he had one on standby at Croydon in case he had to run from 10
Downing Street. And believe it or not he had a bicycle made for three outside Lloyd
Georges front window in case he and Desmond FitzGerald and Arthur Griffth had to make a
dash for it. Throughout the entire negotiations the trio kept their bicycle clips on! Now
Bertie I wonder how you and Celia would look with bicycle clips, or where would Celia put
them?????
Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 08:38:54 AM
Email: conin thecrate
Name: Countess
Message: My good man teeshock, I will have you know I drove a coach and four
everywhere I went and at breackneck speed. My daddy and mummy had a Daimler EI-2 to get a
round in.
Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 08:39:33 AM
Email: tm@ carrignagat
Name: Teeling
Message: I rode a horse to get where ever
Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 08:40:51 AM
Email: sm@the friary
Name: St. Martin
Message: I once overheard a man in confssion say he rode a nun from Cork and the
old priest replied, 'Son it's bette than walking from Cork'
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 10:49:12 AM
Email: be@thehokey.com
Name: bye gum, begobs, begorrah
Message: jeepers, creepers, keep on those sleepers, jimmy Eccles book of old Sligo
is very fond of ducks and swans. Not a seagull in sight. There's a photo of Elsinore lodge
in it from 1969 and it looks the same dump as today. Sure if they don't want to patch it
up, get Dubdya to surgically strike on his way to the gulf! De old Limerick hoors are
making a packet at shannon wit de yanks, and thewn they have de business from all those
protesters as well, creaming it. Strandhill should put a bid in. Becripes it'd be grand.
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 04:12:17 PM
Email: toc@thebeach
Name: The Ould Cannon
Message: Now sir, I will have you know that we here in Strandhill don't have any
hookers happy or sad other than sailing ships. And as for our fine edifice taking Yankees
enroute to the Gulf the ould runway is too short for the big clippers. However we can
always ask Dubya to send smaller planes. I suppose a few mobile homes would do the girls.
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 04:41:08 PM
Email: wby@thebank
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Well Con my dear they used the spade that dug my grave to turn the sod for
the foundation for your statue. I hope you won't be lonely out there. A great shame they
way the ignore Eva here in Sligo. At least she is commemorated in that delightful book of
essays "The Library of John Quinn"
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 04:22:57 PM
Email: tsm@stoneworks
Name: The Statue Maker
Message: Did yez all see that Jack Straw said yer man in Iraq is cracking under
pressure. Now that is dangerous and if you statutes of Sligo take my advice I can check
you all out for a small consideration
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:46:35 AM
Email: GWB@teacban.org
Name: Dubya
Message: Howdie, we are havin' awwful trouble at that there aerpoort at Rineanna,
and cud uez tell me if Lar Easa would bee saffer fer to use fer our boys on the way to
kill and be kilt? Condellesa tells me there is no duteee freee, but as I'm a sworn
teetottalleeer myself' it don't make no difference to me. Let me know how good on sekurity
it is, can we keep the hatchet peeble away. An' how close to Eyerack is it? See ye all an'
Laura sends her love
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 05:25:50 AM
Email: toc@the beach
Name: The Ould Canon
Message: Good morrow Mr President. I'm so ancient I still use old English hence the
opening words of greting to you and yours. We here at the foot of Beunos Ayres Drive have
a great little airport that is jolly well great for your troopers and no hookers allowed
sir. Therefore they cannot get the clap and I have axed all axes in the area between
Gibraltar, Coney Island and Siberia. The landing lights are on twenty four hours a day for
you. Just look out for the bloody rabbits and the foxy Byrnes!
Date: Friday, January 31, 2003 at 04:09:29 PM
Email: hb@sligoriver
Name: Hyde Bridge
Message: It was a Mr Byrne who brought the first white bread to Sligo town in 1945
at the end of WW11. And the crowds flocked to his van parked in the Distillery yard. He
brought the bread from Ballyshannon.
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 03:00:19 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: The annual estimates meetings are becoming a laugh here at the Town Hall.
Better still is Councilor Bacon saying that the council should listen to the professionals
as they know what they are talking about!!! Why is Cllr. Bacon on the council if this is
the case? How come Bertie sans anorak plus Celia did not get his mark on the letter from
European leaders?
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 10:32:52 PM
Email: pam@sligotown hall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: At a meeting of the Borough of Sligo in the latter years of the last
milennium a proposal was put to those in attendance that Gondolas be placed on the Sligo
or Garavogue River. One member of that select vestry Alderman Stephen McDonagh known to
the public at large by the sobriquet 'Tabby' asked the eternal question, "Who will
feed them?" In another debate on the demolition of an illicit building the same
gentleman, asked, "Why can't it just be knocked down!" Gems like this create
much food for stage and literature undreamed of by artists who are supposed to be
professional.
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 10:37:27 PM
Email: le@creansx.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Ah now PA sure in your own time at the Sligo Lyre Player weekly and that
of my neigbour Billy Peebles and the Sligo Independent the council meetings were reported
verbatim. Such literature has never been seen since! How times have changed. Mickey Dunt a
former Mayor of Sligo was greeted on Holborn Hill one day by a lady who said to him,
"Your the oul' hoor who put up our rent!" Mickey Dunt being a true gentleman
replied, " A physical impossibilty madam."
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 10:41:49 PM
Email: be@khrist@manumission.com
Name: bye gum, bejasus, bye george
Message: Hi folks, Dubdya here in a folksy, homey, howz yer father kinda way! We in
the country that own all yer mortages, jobs and dreams is distraught with the loss of our
fine men in the Columbia tonight! We know that more spudless hombres came from Sligo port
during the famine than" Martin O'Deiran's rats" now protesting in shannon. We is
going to transfer all operations to Lar Easa henceforth and glory to the Beirnes, so help
me ... Dubdya
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 11:39:37 PM
Email: robin_castree@hotmail.com
Name: Robin Castree
Message: I enjoyed the site very much, nothing pretensious - just freindly and
inviting. I hope that your Metal Man finds all of his brothers one day and that your nets
always remain full.
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2003 at 11:53:05 PM
Email: robin_castree@hotmail.com
Name: Robin Castree
Message: I wrote the last message before I read the guestbook. Hell's bells - what
do they put in the water there? Have any of you kind folk seen Roysten Vasey? well you're
it. Please please, seek some counselling and make sure that you never come to England, I
want to sleep safe in my bed.
Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 at 05:43:49 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: My good Man Robin perchance you might inform us what exactly are your
concerns in these mind boggling entries?
Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 at 09:41:42 AM
Email: er@buckhouse
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: Oh dear I am saddened to read that one of my subjects has had a difficulty
with the guest book. Silly man, must be a PC Blairite. Poor Cherie got bitten by that
nasty Australian chappie. Once it was "Call me Tony" and now its Prime Minister
Blair as he sucks up to the Texan oil driller. Philip and I have to keep buckets full of
water all over the palaces in case of fire. Philip wonders why the Fire Brigade want more
money and says thirty bob a week is ample for them. The corgis cost me a guinea each per
week . .they make up their nutrition by scavenging the neighbours bins.Tally ho! And your
all jolly welcome here in YUK
Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 at 09:43:02 AM
Email: cm@the boathouse
Name: Captain Moonlight
Message: Avast ye swasbucklers to the boards and we all head for England and
capture yer man Robbie as a slave.
Date: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 at 08:07:40 PM
Email: GrimesM4c3@aol.com
Name: Maria Grimes
Message: fantastic sight. Looking for family of ary Ann Bruen who married Hubert
O'Boyle early 1920's. mary was the daughter of John Bruen and Anne Higgins of Rosses
Point. Please, does anyone know where I can contact any family members? Regards Maria
Date: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 at 10:59:00 PM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: Imagine Messrs Chirac and Blair having a chat without once insulting each
other? In 1798 it was Wolfe Tone and Chirac's forerunner who chatted amicably. By any
chance is that ould canon the one we took at Carrignagat in'98?
Date: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 at 11:00:49 PM
Email: le@crean'scross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Teeling your up there at Carrignagat and I'm here at the heart fo Sligo
town representing all you people did for Ireland in 1798. The republic is here, alas I
don't recognise it.
Date: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 at 08:04:01 PM
Email: holy@grail.com
Name: War memorial victoria line
Message: Dear Lady Erin, tis a different country than te great one we fought for in
2 great wars and for 60 years our ultimate sacrifice was denied by the mealy mouth
republicans. WB was right "a terrible beauty was borne" and now tis reared,
Frankinstein like and stalks the streets and alleys, highways and byeways in self
interest, the me feiners, myself alone! full of sound and fury meaning nothing! Ochon,
ochon ochon, ochon O.
Date: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 at 11:39:05 PM
Email: pam@town hall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: The War Memorial is on Albert Line,now Pearse Road. Victoria line is
Markievicz Road.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 03:31:10 AM
Email: tsos@placeofshells.
Name: The Statues of Sligo
Message: We wish peace and goodwill to all through use of the United Nations as it
was initially founded to wage peace and not war. 'Tis high time mankind learned how to
turn the sword into a plough and feed the many starving people and not the bank accounts
of a select few. Metal Man,Lady Erin, P A McHugh, The 1914 Monument, Teeling of
Carrignagat, St. Martin at The Friary, W B Yeats, Con in storage and Waiting by the shore.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 12:49:25 PM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Delighted to read the previous message from The Statues Of Sligo. I
"second" their vote for peace,not war.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 09:14:29 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Dear Ghoul, surely you mean the end of the 19th century when you talk of
those who were despatched by our peaceable neigbours. It was our own politicians who
despatched many from these shores in the latter years of the 20th century. Having dwelt on
your question, one would assume that the spirits of those past who fled our shores seeking
a chance to live would not like to see refugees from any country in this the 21st century
when we are all supposed to be better educated and more sophisticated than any previous
generations. Incidentally the wealthy Americans go south for winter just as the native
Americans of all classes did.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:04:31 PM
Email: con@lisadell.ie
Name: Con in the crate
Message: So Hilary wants Ireland to endorse her fight for the White House via Iraq.
My advice woman to woman Hilary is take up your own gun and go fight your own war as I
did.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:07:35 PM
Email: qm@misguna.ie
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Och ye are a great women yet Con! Cumann na mBan could indeed teach Hilary
a thing or two anout fighting and winning. Did yez all read about them Australian women
strutting about naked for an aerial shot in protest against war? Now that's the way to so
it, frighten the ghoulies off the men.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:12:02 PM
Email: gangoffour@the world
Name: The Four Horsemen
Message: We the undersigned are not afriad of any woman, naked or otherwise hence
we send other people to fight battles while we sit in the comfort and opulence of home and
office, wining an dining (except Dubya who only dines on pizzas and pretzels). Yours truly
Dubya (USA); Call me Tony; (YUK) Sean Beag alias Little Johnny (YUK Colony of Australia);
He who calls the shots Radio Aerial Sharon
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:17:05 PM
Email: SOL@newjersey.org
Name: Statue of Liberty
Message: Dear Statues of Sligo I am seeking asylum. Can I come and live on Coney
Island? You lot seem to have so much peace there and it comes to you "dropping
slowly" with only the noise of the bees in the glade while I have so many loud mouths
to contend with here. Now my heart belongs to New Jersey who cannot even put a sweater on
me to keep me warm in winter.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:18:49 PM
Email: empire@ny..org
Name: Empire State
Message: I'm King of the Castle once again. The empire State Building is back in
control of New York and the stone lady is now owned by New Jersey.
Date: Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:20:48 PM
Email: pam@townhall.sligo
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Well at least statues are here forever. Did any of you ever read Brendan
Behan's poem about the attack on the statue of General Gough in the Phoenix Park?
Date: Monday, February 10, 2003 at 06:10:45 PM
Email: sean_bruen@yahoo.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: Hello everyone ! I've been away for a while, but back now, if anyone wants
to contact me I have a new email address. I'm doing well and still living in Belfast, but
commuting to Edinburgh during the week Slan Sean
Date: Monday, February 10, 2003 at 10:53:17 PM
Email: mccreevy@financedublin.
Name: Charlie
Message: Dear Sean, as you are doing well could you lend the ould Free State a few
bob to keep it going. The ministerial drivers now have to pay speeding fines and 'tis a
bit hard on the ould tax payer to ask them to pay rates and road tax and income tax as
well as look after the friends of the Soldiers of Destiny. And sure the sterling is flying
it against the Euro so your donation would be twice the value. Slan Charlie
Date: Monday, February 10, 2003 at 10:55:00 PM
Email: smaf@highst.ie
Name: St Martin at the Friary
Message: The next midnight dance will be on St Valentine's night in O'Connell
Street - weather permitting. Admission is 3000 Euros and all proceeds go to Charlie
McGreevy to keep Ireland afloat.
Date: Friday, February 14, 2003 at 03:33:35 AM
Email: gwb@teacban.us
Name: Dubya
Message: Good peeble of near Coney Island is it true that Austie Gillen deported
all the Afghan hounds from your city to the metropolis of Dromahair? I'm seeking to buy
intelligence as my mum keeps saying I don't have enough.
Date: Friday, February 14, 2003 at 03:35:37 AM
Email: qmb@misguan.us
Name: Maeve
Message: Yer eons too late sir, Joe Hennigan ceased his travelling shop sometime in
the 60 or 70 decade of the last century. He might have some lying about in between the
cats in his shop. Although here in the West of Ireland we call them pussies.
Date: Friday, February 14, 2003 at 10:54:35 AM
Email: bedeholy@mackerel.com
Name: war memorial
Message: Dear PA, forgive my mixing up my Albert and Victoria lines, the shell
shock has my brain frazzled! Sure I rember you sitting pretty on the top of Knox Street
near fish corner lording over the traffic like the policeman in the dodgems at Harrisons
in Bundoran years ago. And a fine view of Victoria Bridge you had too! Or was it Corcorans
Mall or Charlotte Street no twas at the Corner of Ratcliffe and High Street, no that is
Lady E opposite Billy P's. Anyway you were'nt long out of the Gethin Street palace. Alot
of Sligo men ended up in the palace in those days for robbing Juicy Joe's on Gore Street.
Alas George street is no more and William Street took the green soup but union street will
always be so. The ringing in my ears has be befuddled, even the poppies are bleeding or is
it olives, oh cripes am I even in the right war!!! WM
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 12:17:44 AM
Email: le@creansx.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: One gentleman a painter by profession Ned Langan was incarcerated in the
Gethin Street palace for seven days. He was out after three days and upon being met by a
fellow Sligonian under my gaze was asked how he got out so quick, replied, " I
painted a hole on the wall!." The reponse, " Begobs, they'll make ye pay for the
stones to be repaired when they catch ye!" And speaking of street names, my dear
fellow, you omitted the Rope Walk, Vernon St, James's Street, Ramsey's Row, Knagg's Row,
Smiths' Row and Walkers Row and Armstrong's Row all had houses that resembled those in
Angela's Ashes.
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 11:24:36 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: As of today Sunday February 16, 2003 our premises the E A FitzPatrick
Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned Men in New York is full to the gills and we sadly have to
refuse all asylum seekers until further notice. It appears that we sufer from being too
near to the UN HQ. Are there any empty houses on Coney Island for me and my regulars to
rent for the duration? We have lots of brown paper bags full of you know what and its all
untraceable.
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 04:34:41 AM
Email: sg@rossespoint.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Seamus me lad, just pack yer brown paper bags and come on down! Sunny Ray
of Alcantara will put out the welcome mat for you
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 05:10:43 AM
Email: tm@carrignagat
Name: Teeling Monument
Message: If you listen closely: you can hear the cheers of the Hungarian IDA
because the Hungarian government have given (for money) the use of Taszar air base to US
Defence Forces to train Iraqi dissendents. Begobs we have Strandhill Airport, the Sand
dunes and the two golf courses to hire out. We would make a fortune from brothels, bars
and bus hire from Strandhill to Rosses Point. Think of it all restaraunts and cafes full
day and night. How about a delegation to Bertie sans anorak plus Celia?
Date: Monday, February 17, 2003 at 05:48:30 PM
Email: ppatster@optonline.net
Name: Patti
Message: Hi, Looking for ancestors of James Devaney (b. 1855 Ireland) immigrated
1856 to NY, d. 1931 (NJ). Married Mary Elizabeth Peters b.1857 Ireland d. 1947. Believe
James was a tailor. Lived in NJ (Union City area) Offspring: Sarah, Katherine Lillian,
Mary Elizabeth, James, Patrick, Honora (Laura) may be more. Any help will be appreciated.
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 10:51:44 PM
Email: sufferance@constance.com
Name: old woman in Hazelwood
Message: Lady Erin, your lady ship seems an authority on your Ramsey, walkers and
Knaggs walks. Is you recollecting spent passions down leafy Sligo lanes, shame on you the
ideal of Devs Wombhood dancing at the most prominent crossroad in the county of Sligo.
Dear Ernin you need decent company, perhaps Constance our reble countess could share your
spacious plinth and shake up your pious platitudinous claptrap! You could take Eva for a
walk up lover lane tipping the velvet before you amble back via circular road, Gallow hill
old pound street, pound street , high street and market street. Lady E you deserve a pitch
on Princess Street outside the RC Cathedral. Vernon street was buldozed years ago and is
now part of Sligo's combat zone along with James Street. Albert Street looked so good in
the Reign of George IV, mise le meas, Shean bean na coilte
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 11:06:02 PM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I think Sean Bean Hazelwood that the fire has indeed got into your head.
Do I detect a little anger there? I hope not. The Albert Line as it was originally called
was rechristened Pearse by the good burghers of Sligo, both Castle and Castle Catholic
alike. Con has been allocated her own spot in Drumcliffe, alas I would love some female
companionship as it has been P.A in Sligo and Ballymote, Teeling at Carrignagat, all good
men I might add, but there is indeed women's business to be discussed. The price of
nappies, turnips, knitting and crocheting patterns to be exchanged etc, etc. I'm off for a
walk along the shore of Lough Gill behind the Hermitage.
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 11:09:19 PM
Email: Charliebrown.ie
Name: Argue & Phibbs
Message: The fool who submitted the mesage about the young man and the pop singer
should realise the following. Your computer leaves a track on this site and the owner of
the computer from which this message was sent can indeed under international law be sued
for libel amongst other things. A precedent was set in late 2002 for such legal action.
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 04:55:25 PM
Email: lisa.jones@liverpool.gov.uk
Name: Lisa Jones
Message: What a great website. Have you found the Metal Men yet?
Date:
Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 12:05:59 PM
Email: bedeholy@mackerel.com
Name: Sean Bean Bocht Hazelwood
Message: Dear no your Ladyship, just admiration, in my day we were all inhibited
and as Somerset Maughan did say "tis not the pleasures that one has succumbed to that
are missed, but rather the regret of the temptations one has resisted". Anyway as a
member of your pesantry buoichas for your pedantry! SBB Congratulations to the Friars 750!
Date:
Friday, February 21, 2003 at 05:50:49 AM
Email: seamus@hotmail.com
Name: Seamus Reynolds
Message: Having read every entry in this guest book all one can say is what a gem
of historical little pieces about Sligo. More power to your pens.
Date:
Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 10:19:41 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day from Australia Just to let you all know the Beyond Ben Bulben Yeats
url is now www.benbulben.net Regards to all
Date:
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 03:52:23 AM
Email: le@creanscross.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Arrah young fella, never mind Alfie's Sraide Sean siopa, he had The Cash
Stores on the MCR, t'would do your hear good to see it full of cartons.And what about
Henry & Mrs Kearns butcher shop in Pound Street with sawdust on the floor -and God be
good to them both - the best couple to keep the ash on the Woodbine the entire length
while smoking, talking and cutting a chop or a steak at the same time. And Henry was a
humdinger wiht the flat of the knife swating flys on the side of beef as he said through
smoke and ash,"Get out ye bastard!" Ah, sure they were the days when mate didn't
kill people.
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 03:59:01 AM
Email: gwb@teachban.usa
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Ieland I want to tnak you for the use of Rineanna, can we
fill up our armoured vehicles in Tubbercurry on the way to Iraq? I have gotten nues from
my intelligence that this place sells the cheapest gas in Ireland . don't say this out
loud but Rumsfeld is full of gas and he smells worse than Condellsa's tabby cat ona bad
day. Ye get my drift. Laura, . . . Laura that was a joke . . . aw shuks wiimen!!!!
Date:
Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 06:48:15 PM
Email: F&F@alot.more.to.do.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Bejasus, am I missing something or what but is Lady Erin answering Maeve's
e mails! Tis it they are de one person like along wit Constance M, Sligo's answer to de
fecking Trinity. Be the hokey now that's a quare one for yez.
Date:
Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 10:59:23 PM
Email: le@creanscross.sligo
Name: Lady Erin
Message: My dear Finbar McFerret, this is a conversation between the Statues of
Sligo and others. Any of the statues may respond to another message. You see we Sligo
statues are unique and on the same wavelength on many issues. So enjoy our pearls of
thought and historical asides. The only thing we do find a little upsetting is when
imposters attempt to don our mantels. Sincerely, Lady Erin on behalf of P A McHugh Sligo
town and Ballymote, The Teeling Monument Carrignagat, The War Monument, W B Yeats at the
bank, Countess Markievicz, St Martin de Porres at the Friary and last but by no means
least The Metal Man and Queen Maeve, Seagull and his brother-in-law. Enjoy the banter
Finbar and continue your own delightful Socratic weaving of questions and responses:)
Date:
Friday, February 28, 2003 at 01:15:06 AM
Email: annegillen@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Calling on all you learned Statues of Sligo. Can anybody tell me where I
can find the poem which contains these lines? Nior saolaiodh me gur cailleadh e Is mo me i
mise amhain. Cailltear le gach focal me Ach eirim le gach anail------------ An me nua sin
a leannann me Go gcomhliontar mise amhain. I think it was from Sean O Riordan I have tried
elsewhere. Thanks and Cheers. Anne
Date:
Friday, February 28, 2003 at 04:31:03 AM
Email: mary_ellen_tucker@hotmail.com
Name: Mary Ellen Leydon Tucker
Message: After nearly three years I will be back on COney Island the end of March
with my Dad Michael Leydon. I can't wait. I live in Houston Texas.
Date:
Friday, February 28, 2003 at 04:47:22 PM
Email: con@drumcliff.ie
Name: Countess Con
Message: Dil Cailin Deas Feachaint seo
http://www.from-ireland.net/poemspoets/new/saoirse.htm Slan
Date:
Sunday, March 02, 2003 at 12:43:48 AM
Email: yretfar@advnet.net
Name: Michael Raftery
Message: Enjoy the site. Brings back many memories of childhood in Sligo
Date:
Sunday, March 02, 2003 at 05:40:13 PM
Email: F&F@whole.lot.more.to.do.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Dear Lady E, As Del boy would dit...Touche, no more than Maeve, you is
truly a woman outstanding in your own field. Tis good to know that you statues is the
feministic trinitification of liberated dark Rosaleen, an bo donn, mother Eire herself. As
ould Socrates himself would say "when de student is ready, de master appears".
We is all learning so much in your virtual hedge school, tis light years ahead of de
christian brothers of my own day and all the other 12 McFerret buachailli, Phonsie,
Fergal, Francie, Fiachra, Frank, Pheisty, Phillip, Pheilim, Philates, Pharoah, Fenton and
Phantom. We mispent our youth in Kilgallons Picture house or Egans public house on corner
of Albert street and Castle, but we never learnt to read Kilgallons leabhair or
Woodmartins history of de landed bucks or Finnegans sinbad shore or numerous others. Lady
E you is de muse, de fountain of knowledge, de oracle incarnate, de big mama and we
ferrets humbly and ever so obsequiously is at your service....
Date:
Monday, March 10, 2003 at 07:58:42 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Talk about being inundated with visitors. Mayor Cummins, wife and 19
children along with their in-laws, out-laws etc are staying here for the St Patrick's Day
weekend, then yon eejit Foley arrives from Australia and has half a dozen more from
Venice, Florida to stay for a few nights. At least Foley invited me and all the residents
of the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed & orphaned men to the launch by Mayor
Cummins of Prodigal Father Revisited: Writers and Artists in the world of John Butler
Yeats on Sunday March 16 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the Mansfield Hotel W44th
Street, see ye there, Slan lath agus plaster lath Seamus
Date:
Friday, March 14, 2003 at 09:44:33 AM
Email: Bryancreer@aol.com
Name: Bryan Creer
Message: I must come and visit the Metal Man now that I've found out where he
lives. In the meantime can anybody tell me anything about a tune in his honour that has
become popular around here. Called simply Metal Man, it's in 3/4 time but isn't really a
waltz. Does anyone know if it's traditional or composed? Bryan
Date:
Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 11:06:52 PM
Email: annegillen@eircon.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh
Message: Happy St.Patrick's Day to you all at home and abroad. Have a great day on
Monday. Cheers, Anne
Date:
Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 08:41:10 PM
Email: graham.macintosh@lineone.net
Name: graham macintosh
Message: absolutly fantastic great
Date:
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 11:11:38 AM
Email: seagull@rock.com
Name: seagull
Message: Where has everyone gone?
Date:
Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 02:42:00 AM
Email: Sligo
Name: Backavenue
Message: Now that Foley has gone back to OZ we can get back to reality.
Date:
Monday, March 31, 2003 at 03:50:59 AM
Email: gwb@teachban.usa
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble of Rosses Point, Coney Island and surrounding areas, I come to
axe you fer support and assistance. I am currently agin anything French, so I axe you one
and all to cease using anything dat's got French in it. No more fries,letters and
especially kisses as then you might not get the need for the former.
Date:
Monday, March 31, 2003 at 10:29:13 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Someone should tell the emperor of the US he is not wearing any clothes!
Long before he was formed in his dad's bag, many another man's dad was in uniform in
Baghdad.
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:12:05 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Honestly this is shocking, now going on April 2nd and that bloody crowd in
Wine Street have not put a copy of the Lyre Players Weekly up yet. Dammit how is a statute
supposed to know what shennagins that shower of TG's are getting up to in the Town Hall.
When I was mayor the only jaunt I got was to Ballymote or home to Kiltyclogher in the
County Leitrim. Now begobs their in Chicago or New York for our national day. Why can't
they celebrate our national day here where our nation or a bit of it at least is?
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:14:06 AM
Email: wby@thebank.ie
Name: W B Yeats
Message: Now, now P A at least this year give the Mayor of Sligo some credence,
didn't he launch a book about my father John Butler Yeats whilst in New York for St.
Patrick's Day. Some culture other than quaffing pints of Guinness you might agree.
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:16:17 AM
Email: smaf@highst.ie
Name: St. Martin at the Friary
Message: Yes indeed Willie you are right, 'tis better the culture than the beer.
After all St.Patrick did bring the light to our shores and that included reading and
writing. And when all is said and done the Mayor Tommy Cummins does hail from Tireragh and
that is where the Yellow Book of Lecan originated.
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:16:29 AM
Email: smaf@highst.ie
Name: St. Martin at the Friary
Message: Yes indeed Willie you are right, 'tis better the culture than the beer.
After all St.Patrick did bring the light to our shores and that included reading and
writing. And when all is said and done the Mayor Tommy Cummins does hail from Tireragh and
that is where the Yellow Book of Lecan originated.
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:18:49 AM
Email: le@creansx.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Who fears to speak of '98, not us statues of Sligo. If only ould Ireland
was over here sing the Yanks, as they put their trust in God as the call the greenback.
'Tis a good job we have lots of holy wells and no oil wells in Ireland, or yer man might
be calling Bertie a dictator for the way he runs the Dail!
Date:
Wednesday, April 02, 2003 at 12:35:53 AM
Email: qm@misguan.ie
Name: Maeve
Message: If himself and meself were over yonder we'd have the invaders run home
across the sea without any of this new fangled stuff. The oul brown and white bull were
great for making fertiliser for Connacht and Ulaid. Meself and himself would chase them
after the invaders and the invaders never went home constipated after the chase! Imagine
what we could do for the deserts of Iraq with a few bulls chasing the USMC who I'm
informed are full of it:)
Continued in Volume 32