31 Aug 2014. Teddy WINTERS Co.Cork, Ireland. Author’s private collection. Teddy Winters died in Ireland on Tuesday 12 March 2019. He was 92. Teddy and I were members of the WINTER clan, my mother’s paternal line. We met in Ireland for the first time in 2014 and I caught up with him again, just a READ MORE
Category: Ireland
A bee, a Saint and some Irish woods
In 2014, I went to Ireland. I went armed with the known details of three great great grandparents. I was hoping to find and walk on the land they came from and, if I was lucky, I was hoping to find some living descendants. And I was lucky: I sat at kitchen tables with ‘relatives’—some definite, some READ MORE
Sights and Sounds of Ireland Part 3
A slight change of plans…. I was going to post the results of my search for the resting place of the LEE forebears in London, but there are some copyright laws I need to work through regarding what I can and can’t post on the blog before I do that. It’s complicated… In the meantime, READ MORE
Some ‘hard’ drinking in the WINTER line
James WINTER (c.1806-1882), a brother of my great-grandfather, Edward WINTER (c.1812-1869), emigrated to Australia from Ireland with his wife Tirzah (nee DELMEGE) in 1851. The couple headed for the goldfields. They found gold, made some money, spent it on drink. How do I know this? Here’s my trail… In my internet ramblings for WINTER clues READ MORE
Sights and Sounds of Ireland Part 2
RTE Lyric FM and Waiting for Cows After a short stop in Dublin in August 2014, I picked up a hire car and headed ‘for the hills’. As I crisscrossed central Ireland over the next two weeks, I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to stop for the cows. The READ MORE
Sights and Sounds of Ireland Part 1
A sunny day in Grafton Street, Dublin On a beautiful, sunny Summer’s day in Dublin in August 2014, I stumbled across a band busking in Grafton Street. I stopped. I filmed. I enjoyed. I bought the CD. How often have you done that? Listened to live music on holidays and thought, Yeah, he/she/they were great I READ MORE