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From: "Richard Callanan" <>
Subject: RE: [CoTipperary] Season's Greetings
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:23:08 -0000
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Season's Greetings! - whether this is Winter Solstice, Hanukkah,
Christmas or the Retail Festival - whatever you're having yourself, sir!

"And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day."

Richard Callanan
London England



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Subject: [CoTipperary] Chritmas Greetings

One of the most vivid Christmas memories of a previous generation in
my
area was of the folks from "Eagle Patch" a small slate quarrying village
coming
down out of the hills by torch light to midnight mass to the town below.
Most
of these folks were Tipps. John Montague the Tyrone poet relates an
amazingly similar scenario in one of his poems of Christmas in Tyrone,
showing, I
guess , the universality of human experience. For better or for worse
there will
be no White Christmas here this year.
We had an old fella here who couldnt quite leave Ireland behind and

would always play the Texan as regards everything being bigger better
and more
wonderful in Ireland. In the "Great Blizzard of '88" in March 1888,
huge snows
blanketed the country side. The boys saw their chance to have a go at
Mick.
"Well Michael, Now you cant say you had more snow than this in
Ireland."
"No", says Mick, not missing a beat, "but it was whiter".
MERRY CHRISTMAS to the Tipperary folks world wide!
Peter Patten,Vermont USA


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