‘HI, I am looking for any information on my grandfather Richard Cullen.
LAST week’s edition of The Nationalist was greatly enhanced by that charming photograph of the lovely Tara Lynham – three years married to the lucky Jason – whose picture framing skills have long been appreciated in this quarter, where she has always been known by her maiden name – Tara Gale.
Historical research necessitates an awful lot of reading, some of it rewarding, but much of it fruitless.
DEMONSTRATING reserves of stamina that many a younger man could only envy, veteran race analyst Tony Sweeney nominated his ‘Two against the field’ for every single race throughout the seven-day Galway marathon.
NAME AP McCoy’s longest-priced winner?
FOR the past two years since I have had the pleasure of writing the Only a game column for The Nationalist, every Sunday night in the Lawrence household has followed the same routine.
’The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’
Isn’t it awful funny how we miss so much as we go about our daily business in the world?
They say that only those with heightened intimations of mortality peruse the death columns in the daily papers.
A FORTNIGHT ago I wrote that understanding the game of cricket was like understanding a woman.