Album Ireland, 1964 from Deborah Lundbech

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:22:48 +0000

Taken at the Meeting of the Waters, Vale of Avoca, Wicklow, Ireland in 1964.
Nana (Anna (Nolan) Gregory, Granddad (William Alfred Gregory) and Leo Hannigan.
Taken on our "goodbye" visit to Ireland before we moved to the States.

I remember this evening so well. Uncle Leo drove 'the visitors" around on an evening tour. He had a Volkswagon Bug and there were six of us - four adults and two kids.
Uncle Leo asked my mother to sing a song - which is all mixed up in my memory with driving in the Wicklow hills and a golden evening.
She sang "She Moved Through the Fair." one of the most beautiful, strangest songs ever.

The Meeting of the Waters, Vale of Avoca, Wicklow, Ireland

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:22:07 +0000

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1964
Me behind the tree.
Happy St. Patrick's Day 2012!

Uncle Leo at Ballycoog, Wicklow

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:33:36 +0000

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Wicklow, Ireland
June, 1964. Taken on a "goodbye" visit before we left for the States.
Leo was not a true relative but somehow related to my mother's stepmother, who was born nearby but left to go "into service" in England as a young woman.
He was a kind hearted, gentle, funny man who was so kind to me when I went back on visits in my 20s. He had not traveled far, but was so full of curiosity about the rest of the world (even as he laughed about it.)
He used to ask me all sorts of questions saying,
"Now I've heard in America they...." with great wonder and amusement.
Across the valley I worked as a nanny for an Anglo-Irish family. The contrasts between lives could not have been greater.

My Gravity-Defying Brother

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:59:49 +0000

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Wicklow, Ireland. 1964

Ireland, 1964

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:10:43 +0000

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My brother and I, June 1964. Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "Farms".
Uncle Leo and Aunt Mollie's farm, Ballycoog, Wicklow, Ireland.
My mother's stepmother - my Nana - was from Ireland originally, and my mom spent some summer holidays there when she was growing up, with Nanas friends and family.
This was a goodbye visit to those people, as we were about to emigrate to the States.

On a funny note - I just got a call from a woman in Dublin, Ireland who wanted to use this photo in a brochure. I said yes. She's sending me the brochure when it's done - hope I don't regret it.