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Jim's Scratchings

Jim's Scratchings

http://belclare.blogspot.com

A personal story of growing up in the Nth inner city of Dublin Ireland duing the 1950s and 1960s.

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  • Blog Moved

    Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 16:22

    Anyone dropping in here please go to the updated blog by clicking HERE.At the moment I'm trying to track down whoever is causing the pop ups in this blog. I'm doing that by removing all of the widgets and add ins and as soon as I discover the one tha...

  • Popups

    Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 14:03

    Just a note to say that if anyone is experiencing unwanted popups (never heard of a wanted one) there's a replica of this blog.If you'd like to go there clicking HERE will bring you to it.I'll keep both blogs going until such time as I find out where...

  • -

    Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 09:15

    Hello again!Where have you been eh? It's been awhile, but at last I feel more up to continuing my blog. Before continuing with my stories I thought I'd introduce a video clip made at Summerhill, the place where I was born and where much of my old m...

  • Memory of Ma by Marie

    Posted on Sunday October 5th, 2008 at 08:37

    To the right is a photo of our Ma, taken in O'Connell Street Dublin about 1950.I wanted to include this photo with the nice memory and tribute to Ma that my sister Marie wrote below.The words that follow are Marie's......"My ma was a wonderful woman...

  • Our Dad

    Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 10:11

    Remembering our Dad today.Our dear Dad who went to sleep peacefully on this day, 5th May 1983, aged 61 years.I wrote little notes of memories, poems and little other bits and pieces in tribute to you Dad. But my thoughts kept returning to one that I...

  • A ramble around my town.

    Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 08:53

    Before I continue with my stories, yet another showing to my readers of a bit of my city -- I offer this video clip. Much of this video before 7 am on an Easter Sunday morning, so Dublin will look very quiet to you. The video starts with street sc...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 4.60 out of a possible 5 based on 5 comments.

EncourageChange

5 stars paddoconnell

Hi Jim
Like the blog from the liberties myself but knew a lot of people from summer hill.Have a blog at http://encouragechange.blogspot.com.Looking forward to reading more of your posts.slan

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | More Reviews From EncourageChange | Report This Comment

3 stars Anthony Wilson

If you want to know what happened on the 17th, listen to the sermon given this afternoon on the Church of God - PKG website.

Posted: April 19th, 2008 | Report This Comment

beinki

5 stars beinki

Nice work, wish I could visit there some time.

Posted: April 12th, 2008 | More Reviews From beinki | Report This Comment

jacksparrow

5 stars Jack Sparrow

Am sorry to listen about your brother. But glad you are taking it in the right spirit. Came across your blog from the widgets discussion.... interesting! Pls keep up the beautiful work.
Cheers.

Posted: December 13th, 2007 | More Reviews From jacksparrow | Report This Comment

BudgetBride

5 stars BellyDanceGirl

A very well-done blog. I love Ireland! Part Irish myself!

Posted: November 14th, 2007 | More Reviews From BudgetBride | Report This Comment

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