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Sheehan’s Pub with Big Sexy, Sheila & Brigid’s Cross playing on Wed. nights
The dances at the old IA on Madison
Christmas at Halle’s, going to the top floor on the rickety old wooden escalators to see Mr. Jingling.
Summer
Tom Byrne and his flute
Eire Og
Bands staying overnight in the old days, dad would bring them home from the IA - Do you remember Bridie Gallagher?
Darby O’Toole’s and live Irish music
Derek McCormack
Irish students staying with us all summer - the brothers I never had.
Detroit’s festival in the city center
Broomball on Sundays - all the Irish teams competing so fiercely
Bus trips with Gaelic Football - to Pittsburgh and Detroit, Toronto
The Colonial Boy
The sing-alongs at my parents New Year’s Eve parties and sitting under the table listening, hidden by the table cloth, so they wouldn’t know I was still up. Martha Maloney singing Nobody’s Child, Dad singing Spancil Hill. Betty Moran and her laughter.
Not ever meeting Frank Harte
Going to Crystal Springs with the Lowrys, stopping to pick strawberrys or blueberry’s.
Not having RA
Noel Henry
Fado downtown
Chris
Terri R.
Kirsta B.
the East Ohio Gas days at Geauga Lake

How about you? What do you remember/miss?

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