P McNiff &
muh'learned friend
WORK IN PROGRESS:
small town definitions
a small town is
not so much
a poem as a prognosis
a state of being
for the living
bound by rules
and regulations
baked in clay
Papering over the truth when
facts run short
Our town rises early. By the time the farmers relieve their herds of milk, yesterday’s yield is on our table with the dailies, breaking yesterday’s news. Postmen have pigeonholed several tons of mail, stacked vans with parcels and packed their sacks for deliveries. MORE>>
Stories from a Small Town
is wonderful account of life in a small Irish town in the the middle of the 20th century recalled by men and women of great characters who lived through periods of Ireland's Civil War and the two Great Wars.
This is the anecdotal history of Greystones, Co. Wicklow, which was virtually invented by the railway when the Dublin track to Bray was extended to Wicklow in 1855.
Among those who told their stories to the author are
parlour-maid, plumber and fireman; carpenter, farmer
and garage owner; a judge, milkman and second world
war mid-turret gunner who was shot down in flames over
Germany to spend the rest of the war as a prisoner before settling down in Greystones.
Stories from a Small Town received a Heritage Council Award and was grant-aided by the La Touche Legacy Committee.
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