tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post1364211748061381007..comments2024-03-28T14:38:09.470+00:00Comments on Patrick Comerford: Fond memories of family, ‘The Irish Times’ and Douglas Gageby on a sunny day in RanelaghPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post-22392208906181133752018-09-16T16:37:07.330+01:002018-09-16T16:37:07.330+01:00Interesting ramble through Ranelagh Patrick.
I or...Interesting ramble through Ranelagh Patrick.<br /><br />I organised the plaque having promised Douglas Gageby in 1989 that I would do so. At a party in my flat in Sandymount I told him and his wife that we were moving to Beechwood Avenue in Ranelagh and he said that he had been born at No 54. <br />I promised: 'When you pop your clogs, Douglas, I'll have a plaque put up for you', and we had another glass of wine. It took 14 years after his death to do so when the house was being placed on the market. <br />Meanwhile, I learned that Jim Larkin lived there briefly. His wife Elizabeth and four sons lived there for some years as the house was owned by the IT&GWU. In early 1925 the union took court action to evict her and the children over back-rent owned but really to retaliate against Larkin who was setting up the rival Federated Workers' Union of Ireland [FWUI]. His granddaughter, who recalled her grandmother Elizabeth, attended the unveiling. <br />Sadly,but typical of the increasing inaccuracies in The Irish Times, Journalistes en Europe was located at the CFPJ on rue du Louvre and not rue Montmatre in Paris. <br /><br />Best wishes - Gerald FLYNNAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17504450802404182264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post-53928257416181203992018-09-16T16:07:34.130+01:002018-09-16T16:07:34.130+01:00Interesting ramble through Ranelagh Patrick.
I or...Interesting ramble through Ranelagh Patrick.<br /><br />I organised the plaque having promised Douglas Gageby in 1989 that I would do so. At a party in my flat in Sandymount I told him and his wife that we were moving to Beechwood Avenue in Ranelagh and he said that he had been born at No 54. <br />I promised: 'When you pop your clogs, Douglas, I'll have a plaque put up for you', and we had another glass of wine. It took 14 years after his death to do so when the house was being placed on the market. <br />Meanwhile, I learned that Jim Larkin lived there briefly. His wife Elizabeth and four sons lived there for some years as the house was owned by the IT&GWU. In early 1925 the union took court action to evict her and the children over back-rent owned but really to retaliate against Larkin who was setting up the rival Federated Workers' Union of Ireland [FWUI]. His granddaughter, who recalled her grandmother Elizabeth, attended the unveiling. <br />Sadly,but typical of the increasing inaccuracies in The Irish Times, Journalistes en Europ was located at the CFPJ on rue du Louvre and not rue Montmatre in Paris. <br /><br />Best wishes - Gerald FLYNNAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17504450802404182264noreply@blogger.com