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Thank you to our inspirational partners, @dramdarcy, @MarshsLibrary, & @jjoycemarshs, & to @JamesJoyceBroad for covering last year’s Joyce-themed writing competition. Details for this year’s #JamesJoyce #Bloomsday #WritingCompetition coming soon! #YoungWriters #WritingCommunity ... See MoreSee Less

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Thank you to The Museum of Childhood Ireland , Marshes Library 📚 etc! It’s an incredible honour to get a mention in the prestigious #JamesJoyceBroadsheet 📰 among the finest writers ✍️ Ransom Center, University of Austin,Texas #Bloomsday #ulysses #JamesJoyce ✍️🇮🇪📚Alex Molloy ✍️ (13)Go raibh maith agat! ... See MoreSee Less

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Máire Ni Mhurchú meets the Echo Boys, who sell ‘The Evening Echo’ in Cork every day with a distinctive sales pitch.Echo Boys are dotted around the streets of Cork where they sell ‘The Evening Echo’ every day with a distinctive sales pitch.There have been Echo Boys ever since the newspaper was first published on 14 July 1892 and sold for a halfpenny a copy. Máire Ní Mhurchú meets some of them. They tell her about their tradition and the best spots to sell the paper around the city.The report includes a clip of Cathal Dunne playing the keyboard as the boys sing along to ‘The Boys of Fairhill’ in the ‘Echo Boys Club’ on Fr Matthew Quay.Also featured is editor Declan Hassett, who explains how ‘The Evening Echo’ is put together. Circulation manager Richard (Dick) Caverly describes the Echo Boys as vital to distribution: they are responsible for selling about 12,000 copies of the newspaper each day. Newspaper dealer Donal O’Mahony discusses the selection process for hiring Echo Boys, their age and reliability.John Kelleher, an adult paper seller, talks about his work and about setting up the News Vendors Association to protect newspaper sellers and the Echo Boys. There is an interview with one of the only female newspaper vendors, Katherine Heaphey, who started selling papers at the age of four.This report by Máire Ní Mhurchú was broadcast on 19 January 1977 as part of the ‘Next Stop’ series. The filming took place from 13 -17 December 1976.‘Next Stop’ was a weekly series from and about the provinces, highlighting items of general interest or concern. It was presented by John O’Donoghue, Áine O’Connor and Nicholas Coffey. #Cork #Children #NewsPaperSellers #EchoBoys RTÉ Archives ... See MoreSee Less

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Máire Ni Mhurchú meets the Echo Boys, who sell 'The Evening Echo' in Cork every day with a distinctive sales pitch.

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“My Grandma Mary Elizabeth Hunt – Judge came here ( Newark, New Jersey) at 17 years of age from Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. She married my Grandfather Thomas Judge and had 10 children. This picture of her with my two aunts and Uncle is from the early 1900s.Her husband died at 41 years old from a goiter. She was a young widow and the remaining kids including my mom and her brother dropped out of school to support the family while my uncles served in WWII.She was the strongest person I ever knew with a kind heart. I’m grateful to her and my mom for instilling those tough Irish values in us. I was 17 when she passed away at the age of 86. When I was a little girl she would braid my hair and hers. It was very long, jet black on the bottom and white on top. She had olive skin and beautiful huge blue eyes that were passed on to all of us. She would pray to the Virgin Mary every day and go to church and always said that she asked God every night to let her die in her sleep, and she did. She deserved peace.”Debbie Gencarelli Chacon.#Roscommon #Ireland #diaspora #Newark #NewJersey #USA Castlereagh, Roscommon, Ireland Roscommon Co. Library Roscommon Herald Roscommon County Newark Advertiserwww.townlands.ie/roscommon/castlereagh2/irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/timeline/castlerea-town-1830s-0www.from-ireland.net/photography/castlereagh-castlerea-roscommon/museumofchildhood.ie/stories-of-our-childhoods/ ... See MoreSee Less

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