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My Mum and Her Siblings.

Published in Feature Article, Personal History

Oh, The story’s I could tell you about my mother and her siblings. The things that they would get up to is hilarious. Hmmm, where shall I begin…

The Solid Sweets.

One day my mum, (Annette) and her two sisters, (Gwen, Bernadine) where really bored. They went into the house and tried to look for sweets. They only found a lot of sweetie rappers. And that is where there brain wave began

Now there age would of ranged between 6-13 my Mum being the oldest. So they had a wonderland view on life, with there young minds.

So back out side they went collecting pebbles, thinking this will be great! They lined there ‘sweets’ up on the wall. And started shouting ‘‘get you sweeties, only 50p.’’ and sure enough along came mothers and children and teenagers the works all buying these ‘sweets’ and off they went again

About half an hour later they gave up and went inside with all there hard earned money.

There mother,(my grandmother) knew something was up with there cheeky smiles, and sure enough, only a few minutes later along came neighbours and children banging at the door and ringing the doorbell to complain about, well, broken teeth and the works.

Well my grandmother was mortified, she made them give all the money back and not only that but as punishment she made them all eat a full bowl of her homemade nettle soup for two whole weeks!

The End

Zahra O’Shea

On this Day

April 25

1922 Commandant O’Neill, 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area over the following four days.
1920 RIC Sergeant Cornelius Crean, brother of the explorer Tom Crean, was killed by the IRA in an ambush near Upton, Co. Cork.
1870 Daniel Maclise (64), history and portrait painter who worked for most of his life in London, died.
1719 The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.
1819 Vere Foster, philanthropist and educationist, born in Copenhagen, where his Irish-born father was British minister.
1987 Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed by an IRA bomb as they crossed the border south of Newry, Co. Down.
1917 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer, born in Newport News, Virginia.
1922 Commandant O’Neill of the third Cork Brigade IRA was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area between 26 and 29 April.
1915 During the First World War, Allied troops landed on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula. The disastrous Gallipoli campaign, ending in January 1916, cost 46,000 Allied lives, including over 2,295 Irishmen.

My Mum and Her Siblings.

Personal Histories

On this Day

April 25