The Captain's Log - Volume 34
Continued from Volume
33
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 02:47:38 PM
Email: ciaranatrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
A new volume...the last one was getting rather large! Keep it up, all you zany
R.P.G.B. posters!
Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 06:00:28 PM
Email: nanaannemarie@aol.com
Name: AnneMarie Dunne george
Message: Such a beautiful, informative site and area. Definately a place to see when I finally get to Ireland.
I believe (family lure) that I am related to Yeats through the Middleton connection. My g grandmother was Elizabeth Middleton, married before 1882 and dead by 1901. I believe her father was John Middleton, but no further information. Have not been able to find any further information or the relationship between my Elizabeth and the Elizabeth Middleton, grandmother of Yeats.
I am in beautiful sunny Tampa, FLorida. work for the #1 entertainment destination in the world and am more than willing to help anyone do any research in this part of the world.
Best wishes to all my Irish cousins.
AnneMarie
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2003 at 04:58:58 PM
Email: catekay@pacbell.net
Name: Catherine Kay
Message: I have spent the last 22 years of my life studying the legends of ancient Ireland, my life has been so enriched. My website is
http://www.queenmedbencampment.org and if you have time to check it you will see how we could enrich our lives by the addition of the information you provide. I full intend to bookmark your site so I can peruse it at any time I have a moment or two. Thank you so much for such a wonderful site. Cate
Date: Friday, August 22, 2003 at 01:49:09 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: I know 'tis late August but we should all sing 'Santa Claus is coming to town" to welcome Bertie sans anorak sans Celia and the troops of the soldiers of destiny who have a lot more to do. I often wonder is that people or things, probbaly both knowing the cute hoors in FF.
Date: Friday, August 22, 2003 at 10:59:05 PM
Email: Peeved@fancy.focail.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: A Chara WBY, de failure of de local burghers to secure our heritage in Lisadell is gutting but "failure is he opportunity to begin again with more intelligence" - Henry Ford.....
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 03:53:09 PM
Email: webmaster@jivenaires.com
Name: Jivin
Message: Rossespoint showbands? Anyone remember? If so drop by our site and take a look around. We're looking for scans of showband photos, publicity material, and memorabilia. We'd also like to hear from showband vets - either in our guestbook, or perhaps conduct online interviews. Can't offer any compensation, but we assure you, you'll make someone smile!
http://www.jivenaires.com
Thanks for reading...and Keep Jiving!
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 03:22:22 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The Cleffonaires, the Savoy Swing Seven, Eamon McCole and his Band, Pat O'Hara and his band. Ah they were the days when music wafted over he ater and not the sound of boom- boom we hear today.
Date: Monday, August 25, 2003 at 07:24:12 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Meself an' Seagull visited yer mans jivinaire site about the music. Begobs it brought tears and flood of memories of the halcyon days of dancing at the Hotel and in the Elsinore, not to mention The Plaza, The Silver Slipper, The Town Hall, The Giloolly Hall, The Ballroom of Romance in Glenfarne. From jive to rock and roll to the hukclebuck 'tis all there.
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 11:40:05 AM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: Its with great sadness that we announce the death of Doctor Tom McCarrick a good neighbour and friend. RIP
Message:
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 06:35:14 AM
Email: gbw@teachban
Name: Dubya
Message: Metal Man could you come to my aid with intelligents? Did you ever see an Eye-racki in a shop in Rosses Point buying any kinda yellow cake or bun? I need this intelligents quick. Especially as you are now about the only person in the world never to have told a lie.
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 06:38:44 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Well now come to think of it back in 1960 or 1961 meself an' Seagull saw Joe Foley delivering a tray of Tighe's maderia cakes to Ormsby's Hotel and the hotel was full of foreign men and women. Well at leats Seagull said they had to be foreign, as they were not locals.
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 08:43:30 PM
Email: bush@in.degap.com
Name: WB Bush
Message:
Kind peebles of Eiran, good friends of Americka,
I've been lonely in the saddle since my horse died.
They tell me those nice peebles of Leitrim have named an old coaching inn in Carrick on the old shannondoah river after me.
Me and my dogs is so proud. Well god bless ya and good night to ya all.
Dubya.
Date: Monday, September 01, 2003 at 07:06:01 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: The above message is a hoax. Using the identity of another is frowned upon here.
Date: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 at 12:39:08 AM
Email: td@mailcoachrd
Name: The Reel Doc
Message: Dear constituents of Rosses Point, Coney Island Oyster Island and surroundings. I am saddened that Bertie aka 'The Boss' - not to be thought of as THE BOSS a la the Baron of Kinsealy CJ or The Chief the man from 42nd Street - has not agreed to my request for a SLURP line for Sligo and Rosses Point equal to the LUAS line in Dublin. After all they have DART and we need
a SART. Now thank God our county name does not begin with F, although some might use that term, especially when it came to considering the purchase of the blind man's fort. Working hard for yez all here in Dail Eireann. Slan Doc
Date: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 at 07:51:00 PM
Email: WB Bush@in.a.gap.com
Name: Jeb Mad as a brush Bush
Message:
God dam you can spot a faker at 200 yards ya old varmint you!
Sure aren't the old faker yerself, sure is'nt there 3 of you an one of you missing like yur good old lordie Lucan
Jeb
Date: Thursday, September 04, 2003 at 12:42:17 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: My good man Jeb. Whilst there may be three Metal Men and one not to be found, we don't go rushing off on the pretext of lies, damn lies an statistics to the middle east and get our rear ends kicked. We also know very well as Metla Men who have been telling the truth for over 200 years that God has no favourites and He doesn't put drunks into the White House: the Supreme Court did!
Date: Friday, September 05, 2003 at 07:00:46 PM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Begobs lads and lassies I understand what that slogan of Bertie's in the last election was about. You know the one 'A lot done, a lot more to do' Well that is what the Laffoy Commission is in the eyes of some people about doing the innocent once again. Good on Ma Laffoy for standing up to the boys that are afraid of the truth.
Date: Sunday, September 07, 2003 at 03:38:45 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Sad to hear about the death of Tom McCarrick,may he rest in peace
Date: Sunday, September 07, 2003 at 08:04:34 PM
Email: bush@in.degap.ocm
Name: Jeb mad as a brush.bush
Message: O lordy Monsieur Metal Man,you is quite de steely autocrat yerself. Still us goldfish grows in accordance with de size of our bowls and I do forgive de size of yours sir.
Knowledge is experience and everything else is just information, so Mr MM don't frazzle the digerati by de heat of your limited experience out there in the middle of the channel, old cock and all dat yazz, as dey say in Cichagou (in French).
As I keep telling my brother in de words of our founding father Mr Thomas Jefferson "We do not diminish our lit candle when we pass on that light to another, rather it glows larger than ever". And to you sir I leave you with de words of our great sage Edward Morgan Forster- namely "How can I tell you what I think until I see what I say". So Ferrous take it easy, Jeb
Date: Sunday, September 07, 2003 at 11:25:22 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: My dear Jeb you appear to have the Bush family failing which may explain why a ferrous man who has not alone met people from most nations and can recognize the flags of all the nations of the world than a Texan who wears a hat and boots that are several sizes too small and complains constantly of headaches and sore feet to Laura. I heard that Dubya recently inquired from the CIA about the policital activities of the two blue colored neigbors
to be told that one was the Atlantic Ocean and the other the Pacific and his reply was, "I'll be darned". Methinks its hightime the Bush brothers were railroaded out of town.
Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 at 12:25:03 AM
Email: gwb@teachban.us
Name: Dubya
Message: Why are the hole of the world againts us mericans? Why can't yez understand I was sent here by God to clean the world up. Now folks here is complainin I'm spending more on Eye-rack than on the poor of the US. Why damn it man this is the home of the rich and the mad, dere should not be any poor living here at all. Dem places with non sayable names is fer poor peeble. I'm such a misunderstood man. Why only t'other day Colin says to me in the Oval office, "Will I send for coffee?" an' I says, "Yes, please white with one." He sniggered at me and said he meant "Kofi Annan the guy at the UN". I now only allow iced tea in the house. And Laura says I am deficient in bed. Why lord I haven't wet the bed since I gave up the booze, she must be having nightmares like me.
Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 at 12:30:00 AM
Email: hm@buckhouse.yuk
Name: QE11
Message: Oh dear what has the world come to at all, at all. Even the corgis are becoming as bewildered as Phil the Greek. Young Bush thinks he has problems. Imagine what I have with a Hoon in charge of the army and a man of Straw at the FO! The latest whisper is that the extreme left of Labour want to house refugees at one of the palaces. I told them we required them in case we need to get a break from Charles and his girl friend. I hope to mee the Metal Man on my vist Ireland next year. I think I will go alone and leave Phil here with a young floozy or two. All he can do these days is look and slobber at the mouth!
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 07:23:22 AM
Email: bertie@drumcondra
Name: The Boss
Message: How yez all. Me and the boys are down here in Shligo for a few days to try the food and the beer. This oul cabinet business is all a cod. Shure we haven't had a carpenter since the ould days of LSD, pounds, shillings and pence dat is. Sunny Ray of Alcantara dropped in for a coffee this morning. If ye ask me that's one cute hoor if ever there was one. Not a track or trace of where he has been at all. I have to go now the boys are starting a game of poker.
.
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 08:31:07 AM
Email: berite@drumcondra
Name: The Boss
Message: Be the holy the oul tink in was great. Yez shudda seen the look on the faces of the two yahoos I read the riot act too. An yer man Martin then tells me that the young wans down here in the west can't erect a building on their daddy and mammys land. I was half asleep , you see I was tired from the shennanagins of the night before, we were murdering Kevin Barry for the umpteenth time around the piano and by the way it needs tuning. When I heard "erect" it brought me to a jump I thought he was going on about under the blanket stuff. Anyway the next thing he says is that we aren't even talking about houses with stairs in them, so that means they must be celibate. Bejay I know the feeling only too well lately!
Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 at 10:15:47 PM
Email: dehole-enchilada@bushwhackers.com
Name: Jeb mad as a brush bush
Message: Dear Enimen (M&M) you is ferric not ferrous, de oxidised S-of-a-_i_ch brother of your sociable sib in Tramore. I guess de ferric comes from living in de hole Sligo where all yur county came to de USA during de famine. My buddies in Florida wana be nice to youse epidemiological artifacts back in Sligo given de fitset migrated to our shores long ago and we is beholden to the electorate of the cream of your migrated stock. I woz reading in your quaint Gaylic periodical "De Sunday Independent" dat members of your celebrated folk band westlife woz rendered toothless in a corn beef & cabbage bar in your mean city.
As de chinese say "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still" you is too fond of de limits of yur plinth sir, as Mr Mencken said "Firmness in decision making is a form of stupidity, an in-ability to think de same thing out twice"
When such a man sets out in de wrong direction, his superior skill & swiftness leads him proportionally further away.
Jeb
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Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 at 12:51:21 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: My dear Mr Jeb, on behalf of my brothers and sisters in stone and bronze here in the ancient and esteemed County of Sligo I have to say that your defence of the defenceless makes as much sense as tits on a bull. Why even the Papal Bulls have some calibre of commonality with some of the people some of the time, whereas young Dubya's bull has only a commonality with gas pumpers who have filled him so full of gas that if he was to break wind without their permission he would fly away like a baloon or the blow up doll that the Kerryman gave a love bite on the neck and wondered why she flew out the window!!!
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 at 07:21:41 AM
Email: tm@victorialine
Name: The Monument
Message: Ah dear I see in the Irish Independent Ireland is split once again, and the ould song is A Nation Once Again. This time over smoking in public places like eating and drinking establishments.
I heard an old solider tell a story that as a youth in uniform in France during WW1 he asked a madam if she ever smoked after intercourse and she replied, "Why I never looked to see".
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 11:47:05 AM
Email: JB@bushwhacker.com
Name: JB mad as a bush
Message: Dear Ferric,
Ain't heard so much drivel since we dragged a pee-eyed sligonian from swimming with de gators in de everglades swamps. No its since I read dat beautiful Bill cullan's hapenny pippins. One of our founding fathers said "A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning, one must learn from him who knows" No matter wot Robin Williams said in Dead Poets Society. So Ferric Carpe diem and as Mr Morgan Foster once said "how can I tell what I think until I see what I say". I sure do luv your unstructured, free-flowing Irish fancy!
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 11:19:40 PM
Email: wby@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: My good man Jeb or to be politically correct Perosn, As the lecturers say of my and James Joyce's work, "It's all in the text" which is why the wonderful writing by any Irish man, woman, or child is freeflowing and sagacious. My father said of America in 1920, " The fiddles are all strung" meaning Americans were preparing to become civilised at last. I fear today he would say it is machine guns that are being strung, alas by intolerant and poorly educated youngsters who don't know one Iraqi from another let alone a rare tiger in a zoo.
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 at 05:54:47 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: What is the world coming to at all at all? We have been inundated with foreign visiting politicans at the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for widowed and orphaned men here in New York. One fella says he was a Hoon wnated to come and hide for a while, another fellow made of straw turned up! Then Blair and Bertie taking all the credit for something they knew nothing about. The next thing is Dubya will be given the Nobel Prize for Literature or lack of it.
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 04:19:56 PM
Email: david@higgisons.com
Name: DAVID FRAMPTON
Message: Hope to visit next year with my wife who is a native of County Mayo.
Date: Friday, September 26, 2003 at 02:57:10 PM
Email: MARBOB16@CS.COM
Name: Bob Cleary
Message: LOOKING FORWARD TO A VISIT THIS YEAR.
Date: Friday, September 26, 2003 at 07:06:09 PM
Email: dubya@teachban
Name: GWB
Message: Deer peeble of Eyreland, your Prime Minister was the only one who hugged me after my reading at the UN. He tol me he stood beside me, as it was safer than standing behind me. The last time he did that the tears came to his eyes: it musta been the mexican beans I ate! Anyhow I have bin tol by one of my advisors dat I am visceral and feel rather than think about things, so you see I felt Saddam and nu he was no good for nuttin. Now I bin trying to visceral Laura but I am too damn tired when I get to bed with all this talk of war and the peeble wanting more jobs. Why can't they do things for themselves like me and my buddies in the oil biznezz?
Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 at 12:14:46 PM
Email: snbecker2000@yahoo.com
Name: susan becker
Message: a new yorker with cavan blood and an irish soul. loved rosses point when i was there a couple of summers ago. I'll be back
Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 at 07:35:02 PM
Email: kcoj@tpg.com.au
Name: John Houze
Message: Hi all
just cruisin by and stopped of at Harrys Bar and looking at some characters in the photos!! Hi to Ciaran,Callista, Seamie and Caroline Colleary.
regards to one and all in RP (hope to be home next year)
Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 at 10:34:40 PM
Email: webmaster@jivenaires.com
Name: Hucklebuckn
Message: Lotta hard work put into this site - perhaps the captain will know a bit about showbands that might have been based in Rosses Point? If so, drop by our site and leave us a note (and look around while you're there):
http://www.jivenaires.com
Date: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 at 04:00:33 PM
Email: joyfun@freenet.de
Name: Joyce
Message: Hi there!
I discovered your website a few minutes ago and I have to say it's great! But my quetsion is: There's a map on your homepage and I on this map I read ' Feehily's Bar'. Is it the bar of Marie, Mark or Oliver Feehily??
I hope you'll write back.
Regards, Joyce
Date: Friday, October 10, 2003 at 08:30:59 PM
Email: progressivetwo@aol.com
Name: Ronald F. Devaney
Message: I know very little of my family history, but some of the names I've seen here are very familiar. I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and now live in Colorado. Great web site!
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 12:29:01 AM
Email: public.computer.com
Name: Jane and H.
Message: Hi Rosses Point,
Trying to get in contact with two friends of ours we spent a wonderful holiday with last year during the mackerel festival. Tom and Medbh. We have moved house since and lost touch. Anyone have a contact for them? Hope to see you all again soon for more of the same!
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 12:32:39 AM
Email: public.computer.com
Name: Jane and H.
Message: Sorry guys - in case you two are signed in, try us on our old e-mail its still working. Loved our time there with you and looking forward to the next trip. Hope you had a great summer aboard Nelly B. We'll have our sea legs next time! The first, and subsequent several rounds are on us! xxx
H&J
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 03:40:45 PM
Email: medbhgillard@hotmail.com
Name: Medbh
Message: Hello Hunt and Jane
You can contact me at the e mail address above.
Medbh
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 11:02:19 AM
Email: pam@townhall.ie
Name: P A McHugh
Message: Imagine that young lady bringing a bag of rats to the Sligo Town Hall. Oue would imagine there are ample numbers there as it is.
I must find out what cheese Foley's wife banned him from eating. By all accounts it was better than viagra!
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 11:03:30 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I heard on the grapevine that this crowd known as the Community Alliance that hang out in the town are going on an all cheese diet.
Date: Monday, October 20, 2003 at 04:46:03 PM
Email: mjkelly422@hotmail.com
Name: Matthew Kelly
Message: Found this information on the family of:
Redmond Bruen, & wife, Catherine Feeney/Feeny.
son, James Bruen, died in NY City, on 1904 Aug 15, age 41, buried in Calvary Cemetery. Lived in NY CITY, 28 Years. Does anyone have more information on this Bruen Family that they are willing to share?
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:08:28 PM
Email: henderickx@hotmail.com
Name: Luc
Message:
Hello, I visit your very nice site
It was for me great pleasure to visit and enjoy this site. Thanks
Greetings from Luc
Owner and webdesigner from
http://www.artpage.be
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 10:28:08 PM
Email: medbhgillard@hotmail.com
Name: Medbh Gillard
Message: Re: Tom McCarrick 1943-2003
I am putting together a collection of photographs of Tom and the boat Nellie B. Kieran Devaney will link these onto the Rosses Point Home Page. If anyone has anything they would like to contribute, they can send them to the address below or via e-mail. I'll return all originals. This would be a nice way to remember Tom coming up to the eighth week anniversary of his passing.
Medbh Gillard,
Rosses Point,
Sligo.
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 01:00:20 AM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Gavan Gillen was ferrying a load of dogs over to Oyster Island in the middle of the night. The Dog Warden is coming to visit The Point next week.I presume that old adage of "die dog or #*it the licence" is still the thing in modern days.
Do dog-fish come under this licensing act?
Continued in Volume 35
