tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59660193235327179882011-09-12T20:26:29.347+01:00Leonard Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637822058320460691noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5966019323532717988.post-30146661095140444302009-08-28T19:44:00.004+01:002009-08-28T21:13:33.292+01:00

Here's a short video I made around Dublin as I rode my bike with a small camera mounted on the handlebar. - Jimmy.

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I would also like to add my thoughts about a sweet sister and pal who left us so suddenly 3 weeks ago tomorrow.Thinking back to this time 3 weeks ago, it's hard to believe she was here in my home and we were laughing so much. Marie & Paul were here too. She came to stay with me the night before. Normally she would stay for a few weeks but this time she was adamant she was going home on Friday

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As Marie says below our sister Chris left us... left us broken hearted. People talk about bereavement, but that to me is just a word right now....my 'bereavement' is to be broken hearted at the loss of my little sister.Yep I'm the 'big brother' of the bunch, and Chris was my little sister.The day after she passed on I was sitting here feeling a whole mixture of emotions.... unspeakably sad, lost,

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AS I SIT HERE THINKING ABOUT OUR WONDERFULL SISTER WE LOST LAST SATURDAY 8/8/09....THERE IS SO MANY WONDREFUL THING'S I WANT TO SAY ABOUT OUR CHRIS BUT I FIND IT HARD TO TYPE THE WORD'S.....I DID'NT JUST LOSE A SISTER LAST WEEK I LOST MY BEST FRIEND NOTHING OR NO ONE CAN REPLACE HER EVEN DO SHE WAS SO SICK SHE WAS ALWAY'S THERE FOR ME TO LISTEN...WE LAUGH A LOT I MISS CALLING HER EVERY DAY AND

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And he's only 3. :-)This is Seán 'driving' his dad's truck in Melville. - Jim

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Hello to all of our visitors.From now this will be a family blog, in that all of my sisters and brothers will have access to the blog to post, add elements or do anything.I hope also our children will agree to become co-authors as well.We will continue to keep this blog going with our memories, photos etc. In time we hope that this will be a blog that our grandchildren... and their children

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The following is a replica of a post that appears HERE.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 the popups in this one are coming from and removing the cause.Meanwhile here's a little

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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 memories are based. The video clip begins at the junction of Summerhill and the North Circular Road. But this is a Summerhill much changed from the

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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 she cared so much for us kids i will never forget her this is my little bit about my ma....My ma was the best ma anyone could ever have I love her

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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 always associate with you....So once more for you Da....Only a Dad..........but the best of men,Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the

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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 scenes from around Dublin followed by landmarks such as Dublin Castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Stephen's Green, The Natural History Museum,

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And so after a long break from posting I move on.I have a lot of stories to tell yet, so many that this blog will never end so please stay with me and share in my memories. You might laugh with me, be shocked by things I have yet to tell you about, you may even be very surprised by some of my memories, particularly if you happen to know me personally.So far I think I have painted in part a city

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It's one week now since Jimmy, my brother-in-law left us to go to a far better place.He is now resting near my father, mother and other family members in St Fintan's in Sutton. If you walked a bit down the slope at St Fintan's, and looked to your centre left, and if the light was just right you would be treated to the lovely serene view that you see here to the right. My father used to say

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This is a photo of Jimmy McLoughlin singing in a bar in Spain. A happy day for him and for all who were with him.But on Tuesday 30th of October 2007 Jimmy left us. Many from the Summerhill area drop in to read this blog, many who will know Jimmy. Bide a moment and remember him.And to help you remember him, he lived at one time in 42K, right next door to Terry Kelly's pub which later became

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It's now one week since I heard of the passing to her eternal reward of our friend from the GB, Sarah.Sarah loved and was proud of her Irish roots.So before I return to write again about the dear old mean streets of Dublin, and about my early life's experiences in those streets. I want to say a final farewell... adieu.. slán to Sarah (or Sally as she's known to her family)This is not a mark of

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A guestbook, a shoutbox, the comments to posts in blogs. Who gives them much thought? Not many I'll bet. Most leave a note and that's it. Some don't even bother. .But you can meet some special people through writing in a guestbook. I and many others met such a special person. If you read through one of my shoutboxes or many of the comments to my posts you'll see the name Sarah.I first 'met'

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He isn't here at the moment. We're just minding some of this stuff that he has all parcelled up to move to the new blogger page.We can't understand why he's moving at all, but who can understand humans anyway?But he asked us to mention to anyone dropping in (he thinks we can talk too!) that he's working hard moving all the stuff from the old blog to the new one. Said something about the new one

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But only to the new blogger.The address will remain the same and none of the posts should change.However the add-ins like guestbook, map and other bits and pieces should look neater by the time I've completed the move. At least I hope so.The blog might look a bit different in a day or two, but please bear with me. Things can only get better. (fingers crossed)Very soon I'll be back with my

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A new Leonard on the block. This is a little video clip of the newest Leonard -- Sean's First Steps

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The corner you see in the picture is one of those corners I mentioned earlier when I referred to The Four Corners of Hell. In this photo you can see one of the pubs (this one was "The Green Kilt") that stood at the four corners -- the other three corners are out of picture. Summerhill is the street in picture and the side of the pub is in Lower Gardiner Street, 5 doors from where Marie was born.

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This song has special meaning to me, and although the street scenes are of Liverpool they could well be my Dublin in the 1960s. Hard to tell them apart. They're the kind of streets I grew up in and the kids might well be my friends and me.Thank you to Webbie over at World Link in Gardiner Street Dublin for pointing me to this video clip. Visitors who click on that link please drop in to the Guest

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On this date 24 years ago at about 9.30pm I looked up to see a head shaking sadly from side to side. No words were immediately spoken, but I knew....our Dad had passed on to his eternal reward. Scalding tears of unspeakable grief drenched my face. My Dad, my Friend was gone!But the pain was eased a bit in the knowledge that he was no longer in pain....that he was once again united with the

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In an earlier entry I mentioned something about a man who made my mother cry. I want to speak a bit about that man, the situation that caused my Ma to cry, and what happened after that. The man was a loanshark. But this time my mother didn't have a loan from him. You see he also went around offering to colour old black & white family pictures and for that you repaid him weekly. The weekly

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Hello everyone, and a Very Happy New Year to All.I'm sorry it's taking so long to continue with the story, but since my last post here I had a bit of a relapse in that I haven't been feeling the best. But then again it's that kind of weather here in Ireland, the kind where it seems everyone has colds and sniffles of some kind. As well as that the doc did tell me that it would be about 6 weeks

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Hello all! :-)I feel I must thank everyone who dropped in here while I was away and kept the blog going just by your presence alone. I knew you were dropping in because at first the reason I wasn't able to keep the blog up-to-date was because I didn't have a working computer, but I was able from time to time to look in on the site anyway from a friends's house. I must say that it was truly

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Our Ma who went to her reward on this day. 2nd July 1979 Aged 52 years..On the wings of a memory we see a vision of you there,with a smile in your eyes, heaven's light in your hair.We feel your presence on the wind we smell you on the rain,And the memory of your laughter eases all pain.To see that wonderful little grin on your face,To have your smile light up even the darkest place.If it were

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Returning to the Turf Depot, here's a different view of it above. To see a bigger photo click on this one.Here we see it from the opposite end from the last photo. To help us get our bearings here, the photographer would be standing with his back to The 27 Steps. Slightly to the left (out of picture) would be the back of our old flat as seen in another, earlier photo. This picture looks like it

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"Well, let me start by saying I don’t feel very comfortable looking at the back of the flat in Gardiner Street. I don’t know why that is but it just makes me feel a bit sick or something like that. Looking at the front is not too bad why that is I don’t know, maybe because when I look at the front you didn't see as many poor people as in the back.In the front all types of people walked up and

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Sean K. Leonard.Hello my friends. Just taking a wee break from sharing my memories, to share with you a photo taken just hours ago of my new Grandson, Sean.Sean arrived in this world at 5.17 pm on Sunday 21st May 2006, at the Rotunda Maternity Hospital. Parnell Street. Dublin Ireland.So in the photo above he's the ripe old age of 1 day and 22 hours.He weighed in at 6 lbs and 12 ozs.If he could

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"I remember putting a bunch of biro pens down a knot hole in the wooden floor boards over by the window where da used to have the bird. I remember wondering when they were knocking the flats down if anyone ever found them. The holders were all of different colours.Then there was the time that I was sitting out on the window sill and Da grabbed me so I wouldn't fall off into the street - I'm not

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Last time I left you waiting to be invited inside our new flat. Well I'm going to take you inside now, in just a minute. First I wanted to remind you of the layout as you approached our flat from inside the house. Sorry about the quality of the picture, but if you look carefully you'll see the small square window that I mentioned, the window in our toilet. As I said earlier, the big window

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I know that I left you on the landing outside of our door, but before inviting you in and introducing you to life in our home I thought I'd bring you up a bit closer to the flat and how the building looked.... from the back. This isn't a very clear picture, but I'll do my best. In fact the picture only shows half of the building. If you could see slightly to the left (out of picture) you'd see

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Leaving Sean McDermott Street, and Nannie's (for now) we move just around the corner into Gardiner Street. That street going off to the right of the picture is where we left Nanny, so we haven't travelled very far. Gardiner Street is the same street that those who visit the Gardiner Street site see on the webcam, same street but a different world!I think I'll be staying with this street for a

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Our Dad who went to his reward on this day 23 years ago. 5th May 1983 aged 61 years.For you Dad:Only a Dad..........but the best of men,Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race;Bringing little of gold and fameTo show how well he has played the game.But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come home, and hear his voice.Only a dad... of a brood of four.One of ten

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Leaving The Diamond for now we take a very short walk around the corner to visit te flat of my aunt Nanny and uncle Willie in Sean McDermott Street. If you've seen the earlier photo of The Diamond you'll have seen The Diamond Bar. Well Nanny's flat is right next door to that bar. Or at least it was, the building has since been demolished.Nanny, Willie and their two sons, Michael and Paddy

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Let me introduce you to myself. Yes that's a photo of me and was taken sometime while we lived in The Diamond.The reason I'm including that photo is that I've received quite a few emails asking me how old I was when I lived there.The fact is I don't know how old I was. Maybe 3 or 4 perhaps?You see I'm blessed, or maybe cursed with a long memory. I can remember the room we lived in on Summerhill

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Still at The Diamond. I just wanted to talk a bit about the conditions we lived in, and maybe a bit about other things.The 'houses' in The Diamond were all two story houses, occupied by 3 or 4 families to each house. This was a huge improvement over Summerhill where often 12 - 16 or more families shared a house.A small arrow points to the house that we lived in, the one where the wall outside is

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And so we move on... but just a few feet from our last photo. If you could just look 6 feet to the right of this photo you'd see the bell that I mentioned below... the one I was beaten up for, for hitting it with a pebble. In fact that small piece of wasteground that you see on the extreme right is part of the chapel yard... only thing missing is the railing that you can see in the other photo.If

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Leaving the school behind (but not too far -- it can still be seen in the background here) we come to Our Lady of Lourdes church.... or as it was known to everyone, the Tin Chapel. It's easy to understand why it was known by that name, you see it was tin... or corrugated steel. It was made of some kind of metal anyway.Liz's brother, Mikey served here as an altar boy, and it was here that I

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A lady who visited this blog wrote to me to tell me that she lived in the area that I'm writing about and that now she's taking an adult literacy course -- I think that shows how little education so many of us received at the school I'm writing about at the moment. But I must say that I also know some people who went on to make real careers for themselves later in life, so maybe it was just a few

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This is the best photo I could find of the schoolyard at the back of Rutland Street School. That yard has changed very little since I was there as a kid. Some of the changes are the arches that you can see. They weren't bricked up as they are here. We used to play under those arches, mostly when it rained. And the only part of the yard that was concreted was under the arches. The rest of

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This is Rutland Street School. My first school, but then again I only went to two, finishing my education at age 14 years. (That's part of Summerhill at the top of the street)This school, as I mentioned below, was known by the pupils as The Red Bricked Slaughterhouse. And well named it was too! Back then you could (and would) be beaten for something as simple as not knowing the solution to an

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This is a screen capture from Google Earth of the neighbourhood as shown in the map below. I've only marked the school so that you can hopefully get your bearings. Don't forget that clicking on this or any picture opens it in a larger size and in a separate window.

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I know that all of the family will recognise the neighbourhood, but I also know that many who drop in here haven't a clue about where I'm talking about. I'm thinking of the lovely people from the GB too, many of who (whom?) are far away from Dublin. So I found this map, hoping it would help to sort of put a 'face' to where I'm talking about. The map looks a bit raggy. That's because originally it

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This is Summerhill, where my Gran lived from the time of her marriage and where my parents, aunts and cousins were born. It's where I was born too, but one of my brothers (Tony) was born around the corner in a street called The Diamond, and my three sisters, (Marie, Chris and Ellen) were born around another corner, in Gardiner Street. But more about those streets later. For now I just want to

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Earlier I spoke of the Emergency Medal that Jimmy wore on his dress uniform in New York at the St Patrick's Day parade. I also spoke about my Gran. This is a photo of my Dad who was awarded that medal, (and he's Gran's only son). That's Ma beside him, both of them looking so well together. Ma died two years after this photo was taken, and now they're both together again.I remember the day that Da

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Let me introduce you to my Grandmother, Mary Leonard (1879 - 1963). My Father's Mother.... to me she was just "Gran." Here you see a study of the face of a woman filled with a lifetime of wisdom and compassion for everyone. In this photo she's sitting outside of her home at 42 Summerhill.... where she sat to get her fresh air in her declining years. I have so much to say about this woman that I

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This is a bad photo of the medal that one of my sons, Jimmy mentioned in the Chatterbox (below right). It was awarded to my Father, Michael Leonard (known to family and friends as Mick) for his service with the ARP from 1939 at the outbreak of WWII until 1946. My Dad would have been very proud to see his medal being worn by one of his Grandsons in New York on the St Patrick's Day Parade. The

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Previously if you wanted to leave a comment on any post you were asked to log in before you could leave any comments. This was a glitch that developed, and I've now fixed it.So if anyone would like to comment on any post or on anything at all, please feel free to do so. Just click on the word "Comment" below any post and you can leave any comments or messages, anonomously if you wish. (But I'd be

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Jimmy (right) with an Ambulance colleague, Stephen, outside their hotel on 7th Ave shortly before taking part in the New York St Patrick's Day Parade. 

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Jimmy (wearing Ambulance dress uniform) in the lobby of his hotel in NY early in the morning as he was heading to St Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Ave and then to take part in the St Patrick's Day Parade.

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Jimmy in New York to take part in the St Patrick's Day Parade.Here he is in the middle, between Dale and Elizabeth of O4 X-Ray 2 from Station 11, Battalion 4 of Pier 36 on the Lower East Side. He accompanied them on calls. 

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Happy Birthday Jimmy.Have a great one!And giz that oul bike when you're finished with it.Da. 

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The three sisters having a great time at the St Patrick's Day Parade in Balbriggan.From Left: Marie, Ellen, Chris.(Clicking on any pic opens it in full size)

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This is my sister Marie being 'taken' at the St Patrick's Day Parade in Balbriggan today. Bail was denied so she'll have to stay there now!

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From Left: Paul, Tony and me. 

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This is Martin again. Today is his birthday, I better not say which one, but it has a 0 in it :-)Have a great one Martin.Da. 

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Why not drop in and have a look at the Gardiner Street webcam in Dublin? And while there do read the Guestbook, it's a friendly community in itself. Click on the thumbnail to be taken to the site. I think you'll like it.

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly. And listen to others, even the dull and ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself to others you may become vain

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Here's Martin and Kevin again, and that's Sinead my Granddaughter seeing them off. Hasn't Sinead got a lovely smile? :-) 

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Here's Kevin looking like an Eskimo in a very cold New York. February 2006 

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Hmmm.... yep I think I have decided to make this a sort of photo blog. I'll upload photos from time to time. Photos of my family and of my city will be mainly uploaded.

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This is Martin and Kevin (my son and grandson) while on a trip to New York in February 2006

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Hello to any visitors,I've only just started this now and at the mo I haven't an idea of what I'm going to do with it. But stick with me, something will come up.

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