This is Jimmy’s story, not mine. Now an octogenarian, he told me this sad story from his early childhood in rural Ireland at a time before the arrival of the electric light to the district where he lived. It relates to Christmas 1949 when he was nine years old. Jimmy tells the story in his […]
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My Childhood Christmas-An Untold Story
The small village of Ventry ( Ceann Trá in the Irish language) nestles close to Mount Eagle at the top of a long sandy beach and overlooking the harbour of the same name. The village is located on the southern coastline of the Dingle Peninsula which stretches out into the wild Atlantic ocean on the south west […]