Continued from volume 5
Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 at 08:10:39 PM
Email: modelart@indigo.ie
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi folks, Yet another new volume of messeages. Keep 'em coming! Ciaran
Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 at 08:46:01 PM
Email: seagull@metalman.ie
Name: The Seagull
Message: Hello everybody! Wow! I finally get to fly around this wonderful site.
I've been waiting ages for my shot at the big time. I'll be able to keep you all up to
date with any news my friend the Metal Man may have ommitted. I see the Lifeboat has a
MobileTrainingUnit set up next to the station. It's a great spot for roosting.I think
they're all learning First Aid or something. They might be able to do something about the
Metal Mans' arthritis now. I see John Carton seems to have given up going down to pester
them all though.
Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 at 11:54:25 PM
Email: Oceanis440@MSN.com
Name: Nancy & Paul Lavasseur
Message: Curiosity got the better of us after listening to a Van Morrison song that
mentions Coney Island. Congratulations on one of the finest web pages viewed from this
computer. Your page has been added to our favorite sites. We will make a transatlantic
crossing on our sailboat in 2003. We will make it a point to stop and visit for a while.
Nancy & Paul Lavasseur S/V Encore Constitution Marina 28 Constitution Road
Charlestown, Massachusetts USA
Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 at 10:59:18 PM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The Seagull came home drunk and covered in lipstick last night. He told me
he had had his first Christmas Kiss. I thought he had been to a prayer meeting at the
hotel. Now he wants his own E-Mail address. Next thing he will want to play golf. What is
a Millennium? I think it is better than a hole in one. I will try for a Millennium when I
play tomorrow.
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 at 11:28:31 PM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I had no luck with the Millennium. I could only manage a 69. The Seagull
says Cyril Brennan is the only man in Rosses Point to go round in a Millennium. I will
have to ask him for lessons. I'm off to the hotel now to check out the prayer meeting.
Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 at 05:21:57 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Deer surs I have just discovered a secret about that pair of cute
u-no-wats The Metal Man and his pidgeon! I will reveal all later this week, but, I will
give you a hint. You have read about offshore accounts in a branch in County Sligo of the
Unholy alliance credit bank!! And about a former politican who had hard loans, well this
pair of boyos are up to their u-know-wats in it. More anon Declan Foley Australia
Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 at 05:01:49 PM
Email: Modelart@indigo.ie
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi folks, Sorry for the problems with the Christmas gustbook but its now
sorted. Check out new stories on the Captains Table and Tales of our village. More stuff
will follow soon! Ciaran
Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 at 11:32:41 PM
Email: http://www.rossespoint.com/visitorsbook.htm
Name: Orla Fleming
Message: Congratulations, the web site is really cool. Orla Fleming was 'ere
Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 at 11:40:17 PM
Email: Lisa@tirnanogimages.com
Name: Lisa Rhodes
Message: George Bruin, I hope you get this message, and that you remember me. I'm
Annabel's sister - she's an artist and was married to Charley from England, and we both
knew your (cousin?) Barry - I met him when I lived in Sligo in the late seventies! I met
you then, andI ran into you again in Newport, Rhode Island - I remember you as a really
nice man, and I recall then you were thinking of returning to Oyster Island. Anyway, I
found this site about Rosses Point, thought of you, and wanted to look you up for old
time's sake and because we'll be moving to Ireland in a couple of years, and I'd love to
look you up, and also because we're going to be looking for a little place to buy with an
acre or so of land, and I'm wondering if you know of anywhere - something simple! George,
if you get this, I hope you are well and contented and living a wonderful life on Oyster
Island, and I hope you will find time to reply. I'd love to hear from you! Regards, Lisa
Regards, Lisa
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 12:02:01 AM
Email: tirnanog@waypt.com
Name: Lisa Rhodes
Message: What a wonderful site - I lived in an old thatched cottage on the northern
side of Knocknarea (now in ruins!) in the late seventies, and loved the whole beautiful
area. I presently live in Port Townsend, Washington, but plan to return to Ireland soon to
live. I worked at the art college in Sligo - knew Con, the pottery teacher at the college,
and Phil, his wife, and also Bernie, a weaver - anyone know her whereabouts? Love to all
of you, and most of all, to that incredible area! And Merry Christmas to all of you too!
If anyone has time, check out our website at www.tirnanogimages.com - pictures of Ireland,
and story about living in the cottage! Regards, Lisa
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 12:03:06 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I have no money, The seagull stole it all and spent it at the Prayer Night
up at the Hotel.I don't want to spend Christmas with the seagull. Willie Bruen is going to
Dublin. Kieran Devaney is going to London. I don't know where Paddy Bruen will be. I'm
going to be all by myself without anyone to play golf with. I don't know why I bother.
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 01:27:30 AM
Email: ralph@connemara.net
Name: Ralph Lavelle
Message: Yo! The west rocks - especially if we get this regionalisation business,
then we'll be sailing home.
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 10:37:07 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Expose on the MetalMan and his seagull. For many years now I have been
inundated with requests about a MetalMan in australia (and a strange looking seagull)! I
discovered him in The Australian - a newspaper half between the Sligo Champion and The
Sligo Weekender, except it has financial news,photographs and the usual half lies from low
people in high places. But, lo and behold last Friday December 4 it had this
headline...Moment of truth for MetalMan. The motherless sod is worth millions. He wants to
sell a piece of his electrical business for $233.65 million Australian! More anon Your
Australian correspondent Declan Foley
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 at 02:16:32 AM
Email: jeal@xtra.co.nz
Name: john houze
Message: G'day Ciaran and keiran about time he had a shave! happy days john houze
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 at 02:46:25 AM
Email: conleyconst@lisco.com
Name: Anna Conley
Message: Visited Rosses Point in 1995. Lots of wonderful memories! Your area is
beautiful.
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 at 06:41:00 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Did you all notice the silence from the MetalMan and his pidgeon about my
discoveries? Is his face red? Declan Foley
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 at 11:48:27 PM
Email: Metalman@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: I'll get you for this, Foley! Just see if I don't! (And don't forget me! -
the 'pigeon')
Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 at 11:16:38 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Begobs, I never in all me born days saw as much bird you-know-what that
has fallen or being dropped on me bloody roof! Every bird in Australia visited here, an'
they all were on laxatives! Why could ye not do it on the lawn and make it grow! Can we
call a truce? Declan Foley
Date: Sunday, December 20, 1998 at 06:24:28 AM
Email: maurie@teleres.com.au
Name: Maurie Dobbin
Message: I was delighted to find your splendid web site and to learn a little more
of where my ancestors hailed from. I will look forward to the day that I can visit you and
see it all for myself
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 at 12:55:38 AM
Email: abarnes@socket.net
Name: ALICE BARNES
Message: WE WANTED TO TELL CHRISTINE A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY... AND TO JIM AND
CHRISTINE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.... AND A VERY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU BOTH... FROM
ALICE & JOE IN MISSOURI, USA ( HUGS & KISSES )
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 at 10:20:08 PM
Email: berdvig@compuserve.com
Name: Michele E.
Message: Dec, 21, 1998 Greetings from Atlanta Georgia USA! I wish I was there at
Rosses Point right now watching the sunset, as I have many times in the past. But the next
best thing is visiting your absolutely wonderful site. I joined the gang live at Austie's
on Dec. 19, 1998. The food and drink looked great and the people were having a wonderful
time. I felt like I was there. Please give us more of the same! But don't change your site
too much--it's perfect as it is. I did like the sketch of the metal man better at the top
of the page with the bird flying around it. My very best to all at Rosses and Coney,
MICHELE E.
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 at 11:19:07 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Merry Christmas from the Metal Man and the Seagull. We're thinking of
going up to Dublin to join Willie Bruen for the holiday.
Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 at 07:45:17 PM
Email: patrick.laycock@lineone.net
Name: Pat Laycock
Message: Thanks for the trip around my mother's home town.
Date: Friday, December 25, 1998 at 01:05:42 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: JIMMY BRUEN
Message: A Happy Christmas and A Very Happy New Year To All Our Friends And
Relations in Rosses Point From Jimmy& Christine Bruen
Date: Saturday, December 26, 1998 at 02:51:57 PM
Email: pegan@tinet.ie
Name: laura egan
Message: just to wish everyone a very merrry christmas and a happy new year
Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 at 12:44:39 AM
Email: rclarke142@aol.com
Name: Ronan Clarke
Message: Hello to John and Helen Clarke at Upper Rosses.
Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 at 02:22:18 AM
Email: donard_gaynor@seagram.com
Name: Des Gaynor and Kevina Gaynor--nee Murray
Message: Visiting with our relatives here in the Us and had some fun surfing the
net! D&K
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 at 04:01:26 PM
Email: irishgino@yahoo.com
Name: GINO ANGELONE
Message: enjoyed the visit,,,,question is ter na og the same as coney island? by
the way, i was born and raised in belfast and now live in Sacramento, California, USA
Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 at 02:18:34 PM
Email: rootzs@ aol.com
Name: Daniel J Adams
Message: this is an awesome sight, this one site i will come to alot.
Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 at 02:26:54 PM
Email: rootzs@aol.com
Name: Daniel J Adams
Message: i forgot to tell you were i am from, youngstown, ohio, u.s.a. thanks
again, dan.
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 at 02:36:09 PM
Email: budgeb@hotmail.com
Name: kristina bolster
Message: Much to my dismay, I have no family from Rosses Point and am in fact, not
even Irish. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the stories and pictures of your town on this
website and hope I get the chance to vistit someday and see these beautiful places for
myself. thanks for putting it together, kristina.
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 at 03:18:41 PM
Email: patgiel@snet.net
Name: Patricia Giel
Message: Greetings, I enjoyed visiting your site. My mother , Matilda Higgins was
born in Rosses Point. My sister, Eileen Kelly is living there now. I hope to make a trip
soon. I would love to shown my son where his grandmother was born. Happy New Year.
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 at 10:46:25 PM
Email: stephanie.devaney@ey.com
Name: Stephanie Devaney
Message: Hello! As you can already tell, it seems as though I have family over
there!! I am planning a weekend in Ireland for Jan 15-18 and would love to spend part of
it in Rosses Point. I would be very interested to hear more about the area, lodging and
sites! I welcome any advice on palces to see, things to do, etc. while in your beautiful
country! Thanks again and best wishes! Stephanie Devaney - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 at 05:39:11 AM
Email: BobRixon@aol.com
Name: Bob Rixon
Message: A lovely place to visit on a cold midnite in New Jersey.
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 at 01:36:19 PM
Email: NHOLL11464@AOL.COM
Name: Neil Holland
Message: Hallo A very nice homepage. Neil Holland
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 at 11:39:48 AM
Email: darryl.turland@telinco.co.uk
Name: Darryl + Kirsti Turland
Message: we're planning on staying in Rosses Point Feb.28th 1999, for the marriage
of our brother Roy, to Fiona Brennan (of Rosses Point). see you soon !
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 at 05:14:48 PM
Email: collards@netonecom.net
Name: Bonnie
Message: I love this site and I just wanted to thank you for all the time you spent
doing it. The stories were wonderful, and the photoes make me wish I could be there. I
have just spent two hours here, and I will be back again. Thank you again so much.
Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 01:03:48 AM
Email: mcintk@onlink.net
Name: Kelly
Message: To heck with the stories...Reading the guest book is so much more fun!!!
Reading the conversations between the Metalman, the Seagull and the rest provide for a
very entertaining time. Keep it up, I'm looking forward to coming back and reading more!!
Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 05:42:00 PM
Email: dfok@indigo.ie
Name: niamh okeeffe
Message: rosses point is so cool i'm a real dude
Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 at 11:07:25 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The seagull tells me that Kieran Devaney has been to see my brother in
Tranmore and has found another little brother who's been missing for more than 170 years.
I never knew I had a little brother. The seagull says he may have been taken way by the
nuns. I will have to ask Georgie bruen. He knows about these things.
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 12:37:07 AM
Email: dromard@aol.com
Name: Nancy Hasek
Message: Nice website. We spend summers at our home in Dromard so this is nostalgic
for me. Have had some good meals in Austie's.
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 10:58:03 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Georgie Bruen told the seagull that my little brother may have been taken
by the nuns because he was illegitimate. I've never heard of anyone being ill with
gitimate, but it sounds very serious. Is that why he is so small?
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 08:45:57 PM
Email: Tree Tops@iol.ie
Name: Ronan Mac Evilly
Message: Well done Rosses Point!
Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 06:37:29 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'fay from sweltering Australia. I have just cooked my egg and bacon on
the footpath. What is that eejit the MetalMan on about. It's one thing sure an that is Jim
Kneafsey never taught him! Imagin coming out with that statement Why every man, woman and
child in the Point knows that John Clarke is there to give the MetalMan and the Pidgeon
acting as a seagull their cornflakes every day. That Ronan Clarke is an imposter for my
brother in-law. Regards from the hot country - in more ways than one! Declan Foley Don't
forget a peom for WB's anniversary on 28 Jan
Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 04:27:44 PM
Email: jcostello@marketsource.com
Name: John Costello
Message: Great Web page...can't wait to visit! I am interested in obtaining
information on the family of my grandfather, John Joseph Costello, who was born in Sligo
City in 1896 (perhaps 28 May.) He sailed to New York City in 1927 or 1928 and Married Mary
Francis McGuirk of Dublin in New York in 1928. I believe his father's name was Michael (or
maybe William?) and his mother (Mary) had a maiden name of Lynch. One of his eight or nine
brothers was named Hugh. I am traveling to Sligo) in Late June of '99 w/ my father (John
Joseph Jr.) and would like to make contact, prior to our trip, with any relatives. I would
be very interested in hearing from anyone if you have any information that could assist
me. Thank you very much for your help, we are looking forward to meeting relations on our
first trip to Ireland! Kind Regards, John G. Costello 100 Hiram Square #306 New Brunswick,
New Jersey 08901 (USA) Phone (732) 246-3047 e-mail: jcostello@marketsource
Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 11:28:16 PM
Email: kelvin.gillen@agfil.ie
Name: Hazel Gillen
Message: hello to all there at the captains table - It's Hazel here in the big
smoke for a few days and I'll be home soon !! so drink that pint and order us a vodka and
CLUB !! orange and I'll be there before you know it !!
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 at 05:39:38 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Dear MetalMan and yer bloody saygull, can you please tell your cobbers out
here to drop the manure a little further east! Then it will help the wife's flower beds
along. I bet your brother in Wexford or wherever he is has better manners. Watch out for
my new book Hercules. It will be out for the millenium. I have styled it on Joyce's
Ulysses but set it in RossesPoint and Sligo. The MetalMan goes out for a day to Sligo on
the never used railway line from the Point to Sligo because there was not enough wind to
sail the lightener.(That;s the first line so far)Who will be in it and who will not? The
seagull will preview it! Declan Foley
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 at 01:56:48 PM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The seagull is worried. He is feeling ill and reckons he has caught
Gitimate. He thinks that is why he is so small. He wants me to call a doctor. I've told
him seagulls don't have doctors. Now he is threatening to fly into the hospital. I don't
know what to do.
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 at 10:18:41 PM
Email: decsheridan@tinet.ie
Name: Declan Sheridan
Message: A big hello to all in Rosses Point, especially those old sea-dogs down in
the Yacht Club. Hope to get back over soon to walk along the 2nd beach and have a bevvy in
Harry's. Regards, the Sheridan family in Navan
Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 09:45:54 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Dear MetalMan Dat saygull could't catrch a cold let alone gitimate!. As
for flying into the hospital, he's so bloody drunk from thieving the drinks in Austie's he
can't even stagger across the water to his nest. 2nd line of my book Hercules. Stately
plump Dominic Rooney look over the parapet(Windie) of his lorry and on seeing Pashal
Morrison said" Come here ye fearful Marist Brothers Past Pupil" More anon Slan
agus go mait. Declan Foley
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 at 05:13:11 PM
Email: ngaynor@tinet.ie
Name: NEIL GAYNOR
Message: on our way arriving at memory harbour soon
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 at 05:45:25 PM
Email: Richard_Flood@TBWAChiat.com
Name: Richard Flood
Message: I thought the website looked great..a fine job done by everyone involved
with its creation. The information provided was both interesting and informative. It was
especially exciting to read about my grandparents Jack and Delia. Thanks to everyone,
Richard Flood
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 at 06:33:58 PM
Email: metalman@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Is that Declan Foley out to ruin myself and the seagull?! I ask you, what
did we ever do to him? We're innocent, I tell you!!
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 12:45:06 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Dear MetalMan Ye have me all wrong. Can't you see that like James Joyce I
have discovered a book that will enusre Sligo and Rosses Point world wide fame! In a
thousand years from now when you and that blasted saygulll - can't he tell his colleagues
here to **it on the flowerbeds not the roof- are still lighting the way, and I and mine
are gone but not forgotten, there will be Herculesday celebrations on February 29 every
year all over the world. Imagine people dressed up as you and the saygull! Now do ye
under'stan' me, me oul segotia! Declan Foley Cheers on Australia Day 1999 or Invasion Day
depends on you.
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 10:59:04 AM
Email: metalman@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Mr. Foley, If you can really immortalise me and my buddy (you-know-who!)
in your book then all is forgiven.
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 06:51:36 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Dear MetalMan, and sure there's no need for formality, I'm a Sligoman
meself, and many's the Rosses pointer I sent off on their final journey, God Bless them
they never complained! Now when Hercules is finished the three of us will be on the Nobel
Prize list! And tell the saygull his mates and cobbers did a great job on the flower beds.
The missus was so delighted she-- well I won't tell you in public how she thanked me!
Don't forget to recite a poem of Yeats on Thursday 28 January the 60 anniversary of his
passing on. We will be gathered here in Melbourne to read his poetry. Slan leat agus good
luck Declan
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 at 08:35:27 PM
Email: seanbruen@hotmail.com
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: To all the Bruens in Rosses Point and Magherow, with a special mention to
Imelda Bruen in Rock House. For anyone who met my Girlfriend Gemma and I in August at
Rosses Point, hello I am one of the Bruens from Glasgow, I have just discovered my Great
Grandparents were from Magherow near Roghley, there names where Martin Bruen and Anne
Heraty they married in Magerow in I894 they then moved to Glasgow and my Grandfather John
Joe was born in I903. If anyone has any information to add please let me know. I moved
over from Glasgow this year and I am now staying in Belfast. All the best Slan Sean
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 01:25:08 AM
Email: LgCaffrey
Name: Leo Caffrey
Message: I came to your site as part of my search for information about Coney
Island. There is a poem on a Van Morrison Album that talks about a trip to Coney Island. I
loved the poem and I wanted to know about the Island. I am from New Jersey, USA. My family
and I will be visiting Ireland for the first time in March. I hope to visit your area.
Thanks for the very nice site. I'll be back.
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 01:25:19 AM
Email: LgCaffrey@aol.com
Name: Leo Caffrey
Message: I came to your site as part of my search for information about Coney
Island. There is a poem on a Van Morrison Album that talks about a trip to Coney Island. I
loved the poem and I wanted to know about the Island. I am from New Jersey, USA. My family
and I will be visiting Ireland for the first time in March. I hope to visit your area.
Thanks for the very nice site. I'll be back.
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 02:05:38 AM
Email: rebcav@banet.net
Name: Terrance Patrick McGowan
Message: I enjoyed your site. My ancestors hailed from Co. Sligo. I see there are a
couple of McGowans on Coney Is. I wonder if anyone has any family memories that might
connect us? My Great Grandfather, Thomas Patrick McGowan came over to the US - probably -
in the 1890s. He was so lonely he was going to go back home and was buying a ticket back
when he met a fellow Irishman who got him into some Irish social circles. He met and
married my Great Grandmother Catherine McGowan (nee McGowan) in the US. I think his
father's name was Thomas Patrick McGowan as well. Her father's name was Hugh McGowan. All
I know is that the family says he came from Co. Sligo, and I think, Catherine did as well.
I know its quite a stretch, but with first names running in families as they do, and being
McGowans from Sligo and not Leitrim, I thought I'd give it a try. At any rate, my very
best to all, gach beannacht De libh. Slan Terrance Patrick McGowan
Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 at 11:07:48 PM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Line 3 of HERCULES: Code MM = himself. SG = the pidgeon! MM & SG
walking towards Sligo at Ballyweelin(NB prom not yet built, circa 1953) MM me feet are
killin'me, I wish this train would come? SG. Here's a big Ford coming, I wonder who it is?
MM Is its number EI 7393? SG 'Tis MM Then it's George Soden, he will give us alift into
Sligo. Now if it was EI 7394, that would be Kevin Murray or his missus and the would give
us a lift, not like Don Gillen that passed us on his way to his work in Gouldings. Ye know
SG they make manure and sell it by the bag in Gouldings. Yer missing out on a fortune me
fine feathered friend. To be continued. . .next week
Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 at 05:21:11 PM
Email: fgarvie@aol.com
Name: fgarvie
Message: see you soon, like your home page!
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 at 09:44:40 PM
Email: MFMC716
Name: ANTHONY KEARINS
Message: HI ALL? I COME FROM SLIGO AND SPENT MANY A DAY AT ROSSES POINT. THE GREAT
TRAINING PLACE FOR THE FAMOUS CONNAUGHT RANGERS. EVERY TIME IGO BACK I GO TO ROSSES POINT
TO VISIT AUSTIE GILLEN PUB. MANY A GOOD DANCE WE HAD THERE IN THE 50'S ON A FRIDAY NITE.
ROSSES POINT HAD MANY GREAT SEAMEN INCLUDING CAPT.DEVANEY. THANKS
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 05:31:28 PM
Email: tcglc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Name: Thomas C. Gillen
Message: I was surfing around the net and came across your site. My Grandfather
Michael Gillen left from Rosses Point many years ago. Good to find you guys out there in
cyberspace
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 09:32:24 PM
Email: ginnane@acsu.buffalo.edu
Name: Larry Ginnane
Message: You have a very nice web site, which I am glad to have found. My wife and
I will be traveling to Ireland in August 1999, my second time, this time I plan to do some
searching of the family tree. I have been told that some Ginnane's lived on Coney Island
and are buried in the Church grave yard? Though other family are said to be from Co.
Clare, I have very little to go on once. I hope that time permits me to visit Coney
Island, and I hope that it is still possible to examine the Island. If any one knows of
any stories of Ginnane's in that area it would be of great interest to me.
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 at 04:42:47 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day folks I have started to update my Yeats site at
www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7873. There are poems about Sligo, Yeats and Michael
Quirke as well as three great definitons of the famous lines of Yeats "Cast a cold
eye..." So come on down to Australia in the web. Currently close to 100 degrees,
hoping for a cool change soon! Could the MetalMan have a word with the little people in
Rosses to have a word with the little people who are having fun with my computer AE. Slan
Declan Foley
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 02:20:44 AM
Email: jcaldwell@tinet.ie
Name: Janet Caldwell
Message: Hi,i am delighted to visit Rosses Point,especially when it is only around
the corner! regards frm Drumcliffe
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 02:42:26 AM
Email: jcaldwell@tinet.ie
Name: Janet Foley
Message: Hi Declan Foley ,I must know you,you seem to have been around evryone that
i know .Do you remember Hennigans in Wine Street and the crack with joe o'Dowd and his
ould fiddle playing antics. Who are you ?Are you having fun in AUSSIE land?I will be
around for Hercules Byeeee!Janet in Drumcliff
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 at 08:58:36 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Hercules, contd! With a screech of brakes the Ford Customline stopped
beside MM & SG. "Hop in" said George, "Are you pair going into collect
the dole or the blind pension?" "Why Mr Soden, you wouldn't believe all them
that passed us by, Gillen Bros, Dodge Bros, Finnegan Bros, etc bros, O'Connor Bros,
Hargadon Bros, Wehrly Bros, Mullaney Bros, and a pair of eejits following. We were told
there would be a train here by Stand Alone McGowan." George Soden laughed,"That
plan never got of the paper it was put on" I'll drop you at the Harbour office and
John McMeekin will show you the plan for the Rosses Pt Railway!" More anon, Slan lath
agus plaster lath agus mahigany laths to you
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 at 09:03:48 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Dear Janet By any chance are you the lady that drinks a pint of whiskey
and a small guinness, or the lady with the wooden eye and glass leg - should that be the
other way around? As for me, well I bin here, there and everywhere, currently enjoying the
beautiful weather in Oz. ( PS I was deported for shouting at the Mayor, so be careful, the
old laws are still there), I'm looking after an off shore Post Office savings account for
a retired gentleman (incognito) of the people. Regards Declan
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 03:50:15 AM
Email: dstronach@sjm.com
Name: sandy (moreton)stronach
Message: looking forward to returning there. i grew up in rosses point many years
ago and will return in 99 i hope. i lived in a house in rosses point next door to a small
house called stella maris,there was a pub next door, on the right side facing the house.
i'm told my old house is now a guest house or a bed and breakfast. canyou tell me anything
about it ? i hope you can shed some light on my query. kindest regards , sandy stronach,
p.s. this message comes to you from stouffville ontario canada.
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 11:04:22 AM
Email: ranfords@bigpond.com
Name: Trish
Message: Hi Kieran Thanks for telling me about this site. It is fantastic,
congratulations. I will certainly come back for another voyage. Regards Trish
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 at 02:13:05 PM
Email: aiosso@bear.com
Name: Aileem Iosso
Message: I like the site alot I use to live in Sligo years ago and attended the
Ursuline dad is still there and this was a great to see the place i do miss Aileen Iosso
formerly Aileen gilroy of Hazelwood
Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 01:01:27 PM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Himself from Australia
Message: Hercules contd. As MM & SG headed for Sligo town, unknown to them a
ship loaded with hogs from Israel for Collins Colonial Butchers herded by Blind Paddy
Healy & Caruso Finan from Harmony Hill arrived in the bay. The LS Tartar was under
Captain John Thomas Harangrabski who in his spare time was Chief Rabbi on Coney Island,
the synagogue doubled as a public house from Sun - Thursday. They had bought the hogs
cheap(I wonder why)in Israel. Now if MM had known this ship was coming in, he would have
stayed to show the way, but as he didn't know it was coming he didn't stay and caused
consternation on the Tartar, for Blind Paddy & Caruso thought they were in Strandhill!
Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 10:13:47 PM
Email: ciarandavis@hotmail.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi folks, We've got some more pages up. Mostly in Tales of the Village and
Coney Island but there are bits and pieces scattered around here and there. Enjoy!
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 at 04:55:53 AM
Email: Invisigoch@aol.com
Name: Kristine
Message: Absolutely lovely site. I hope to visit in person someday. Right now I
reside in Rosenberg, TX, USA (by the coast of the Gulf of Mexico). Until then, good eve
and merry parting. ~ Kristine
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 at 06:11:36 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day MetalMan Do ye like the photo of Jack Kennedy in his boat that I put
as a link from my site to your site? If not I'll change it. Regards Dclan
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 12:18:35 AM
Email: soc179797@aol.com
Name: siobhan burgess oconnor
Message: Its nic eto be able to logon and check home base now and again KEEP UP THE
GOOD WORK AND IF YOU MEET JOE BURGESS TELL HIM HELLO
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 04:20:01 PM
Email: dfok@indigo.ie
Name: ellen naughton
Message: i'm cool and i love rosses point. yeah yeah yeah. cooooool. rosses point
go go go go go go!!!!!
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 03:18:42 PM
Email: realtormh@pcgroup.net
Name: Marybeth Hampton
Message: What a lovely way to pass an hour...I thouroughly enjoyed the stories! I
send my best from Michigan , USA...
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 at 03:19:01 PM
Email: realtormh@pcgroup.net
Name: Marybeth Hampton
Message: What a lovely way to pass an hour...I thouroughly enjoyed the stories! I
send my best from Michigan , USA...
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 at 01:15:23 AM
Email: CPARRISH@RICHMOND.EDU
Name: TOM FALLON
Message: I AM NOW LIVING IN THE STATES AND ENJOYED READING THIS PAGE
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 at 09:17:45 PM
Email: dgillen500@aol.com
Name: dan gillen
Message: enjoyed the visit, maybe someday, virtual reality will turn into reality
dan
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 at 02:13:05 AM
Email: general@aieng.com.au
Name: Georgina Mahon
Message: So far away, but the pictures make me feel like I'm back home again, if
only for a heartbeat. Youv'e done a great job with the information and pictures. I feel
like going for a visit soon. Slan Leat!
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 at 10:19:54 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: HERCULES!! Caruso Finan and Blind Paddy Healy sat on an upturned mineral
water crate with McLynn & Burns stencilled on the side.Blind Paddy- "If only this
was whiskey" "Jaysus", says Caruso "Do ye mind during the civil war in
'22 when the McManus's lived on one side of Harmony Hill and the Finans on the other.They
took opposite sides in the politics?" "Indeed, I do" replied Blind Paddy,
" an' me running around asking someone to hold me glass eye, so I could get stuck
into the fight" Caruso -"And I grabbed ye by the collar and dragged ye into
Currans Pub where there was a counter full of glasses of whiskey and we drank the lot,
while the eejits were shadow boxing" Blind Paddy and Caruso Finan laughing was heard
in Sligo!
Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 at 07:06:15 PM
Email: noonep@doctors.org.uk
Name: Peter Noone
Message: "When Ze seagull follow ze trawler it iz becauze they expect to end
up in Rossez Pointz ........" Perhaps they have a better quality of seagull in Rosses
Point.. no? You could almost be looking out from Austies onto Oyster!
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 at 12:11:44 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: HERCULES: Cont. George Soden named for MM & SG the houses they passed.
Nearing Ballincar House, a large 19th century house,- "The family who live there now
are called West, the family before that were called East." "Bedads",
exclaimed SG. "Well" says George, "if that's one coincidence how about
this. Mr East owned a draper shop, now The Ritz Cafe in O'Connell St, and Mr West is the
accountant in Macarthur's Bakery acroos the road from the Ritz!" "So Mr East
went west and Mr West went east" chortled the MM, "Do you know George this is a
great day, and Im glad the seagull here suggested we visit Sligo town after all these
years.
Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 at 01:37:50 AM
Email: joannel@execulink.com
Name: Jo-Anne
Message: Beautiful! we are planning our trip to Coney Island with our friends the
Stewarts in May. It is a homecoming for them, and for us, it is our first trip away from
Canada. Looking forward to being there!
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 at 07:17:48 AM
Email: L.M.Spaccavento@bigpond.com.au
Name: Leonie Spaccavento
Message: Greetings from Australia, My GGGrandfather came to Australia in 1853 from
RATHCARRICK, Co.Sligo. His name was ROGER CHAMBERS WALKER. His father was Roger Walker and
I believe Walker House still stands on Strandhill near St Annes Church and has views over
Sligo, beautiful Rosses Point and Knocknarea.Roger's mother Miss Chambers came from
Cloverhill Co Sligo. Does anyone out there know of my family or would anyone be kind
enough to take a photo of Walker house and send it to me Please? I would love to hear from
you and I'm not sure if its because St Pats day is drawing near or if its all the
beautiful photos I've just viewed but my Irish blood is stirring and I feel sure there is
someone out there who will help me. Thank you all, Leonie.
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 at 08:06:22 PM
Email: tjleydon@bellsouth.net
Name: John and Terry Leydon
Message: It was very nice to revisit Sligo over the internet. We vacationed there
last year for a few days. My father-in-law is a part-time resident of Coney Island,
Michael Leydon. His family lived on the island when he was a child. He has a caravan there
now and spends about half the year there. He is a retired seaman. We look forward to
visiting again. I truly felt that it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen.
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 at 06:44:21 PM
Email: jacquesjarry@mailcity.com
Name: Jacques Jarry
Message: Your site is beautiful...Congratulations !
Please view my homepage and sign my guestbook. Thanks !
J.Jarry
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 at 05:26:08 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan
Message: HERCULES. contd; MM & SG passed the Scotchman's Walk, George pointed
out the smallest Church in Sligo, amongst the trees in Mr Nelson's garden,along by Knagg's
Row and the Point line they travelled in silence until the car halted outside Connolly's
Pub. "I'll meet the pair of you here at 6.30 this evening and we'll have a pint
before going back to the Point" "That will be just fine George" replied MM.
The pair crossed the road and on Hyde Bridge they joined Nigger Halpin, Pa Rooney, Jock
Callaghan and Frosty Callaghan looking into the same river that Jack Yeats looked into
years before. They were watching the salmon going up the ladder as they returned to Lough
Gill for spawning.
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 at 08:31:23 PM
Email: 33236@aol.com
Name: R. Dahl
Message: Loved it. Hope to come and visit your lovely area soon while I'm in
Ireland.
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 at 02:37:01 PM
Email: ciarandavis@hotmail.com
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Oops! I'll fix all the linked stuff above tonight! Anybody in Sligo on
Paddys Day watch out for the Lifeboat in the Parade! Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 01:21:18 AM
Email: frisky2@bellatlantic.net
Name: Agnes Clark nee Heron
Message: My grandparents came from Sligo around 1886 and went to Glasgow Scotland
g/Fathers name was James Harran married Sarah Kivlighan had a daughter Kate born in
Ireland 1887.
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 05:57:58 AM
Email: dfoley@eisa.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day man agus na fir of the world. Here is an important announcement. The
web site of The Yeats Summer School has changed to www.itsligo.ie/yeats/yeats.html Can you
pls tell your friend(s)-assuming you do have at least one! Wishing all the eejits in the
point and not forgetting the townies of Sligo, a happy Paddy's Day. May your self
inflicted head and stomach injuries be worthy of the event! Slan Declan
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 11:08:38 AM
Email: MetalMan111@hotmail.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: I've just returned from my holiday in Tramore. The seagull tells me that
Georgie has invited all his friends to sign the guestbook. Its going to be a Sunday every
day. The lifeboat has grown very big. I bet they have a bar onboard now. The two Metal Men
in Tramore say they're coming here for August. They want to stay in John McGowan's house.
The seagull said Georgie would put them up. I said he couldn't because they're
protestants. The seagull said that doesn't matter any more. I don't know, I'm off for a
pint in Austies. Talk to you soon. By the way, has anyone seen Paddy Bruen?
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 at 12:49:02 PM
Email: MetalMan111@hotmail.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Happy Saint Patrick's Day! The seagull tells me Jimmy Bruen is coming
tomorrow. He'll know where Paddy is.
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 03:47:10 AM
Email: kylie.balogh@employmentnational.com.au
Name: Kylie Balogh (nee O'Grady)
Message: Hello, I visited Ireland when I was 12 years old. My grandfather was born
and bred in Coolooney and moved to Australia in the early 1940's. My grandfathers family
resides in Sligo and we are hoping to visit all of them in 2000. I appreciated a bueatiful
country as a child, now I can not wait to see it as an adult.
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 10:36:56 AM
Email: ciaran@cygo.ie
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi folks, We have a hidden counter on the home page monitoring the amount
of hits we're getting and where they're coming in from. I checked our stats there recently
and I noticed we had one hit from Antarctica! So if you're looking in again from the South
Pole please sign our guest book! We'd love to have you logged. Paddys Day was great
yesterday, by the way. Glorious weather and our lifeboat float got a great response and
didn't fall asunder around us! Bye for now, Ciaran
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 08:48:44 PM
Email: lggarvin@aol.com
Name: Linda Gillen Garvin
Message: I have enjoyed visiting Rosses Point virtually and look forward to the day
when I can visit in person.
Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 at 10:32:49 PM
Email: dfoley@eisa.ne.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: HERCULES# MM & SG looked over Hyde bridge at the salmom ladder, MM
said out loud, "I'm told that the banks of this river are the most honest and decent
banks in this town of Sligo!" To the words "Hello neighbour your welcome to
Sligo town" MM turned around to be greeted by Alderman John Fallon, a baker in
Macarthur's on his way home for his breakfast. "Come with me sir" said Neighbour
to MM, "I'll show you a thing or two on your way around the town". "That's
the right man to show ye, so off ye go with him" agreed Pa Rooney. Down the steps at
Barton Smiths went Neighbour, the MM and SG on their one day adventure.
Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 at 12:15:19 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: JIMMY BRUEN
Message: We are home again in Rosses Point for a few days,the weather is lovely,but
a bit blowy today. The boats are being put in the water again,ready for the summer. Its
nice and quiet here in the Point as well. Happy Birthday to Darragh Brennan in Ballyweelin
who is 12 today.
Continued in Volume 7