Comments on: A return to the local papers http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/ A Church of Ireland Rector in rural Leinster Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2945 Ian Poulton Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:54:13 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2945 Polo, The connection here has a sloth like quality about it, I shall read it at length when I get back to Dublin. Polo,

The connection here has a sloth like quality about it, I shall read it at length when I get back to Dublin.

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2944 Póló Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:58:21 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2944 You might be interested in the crossover section of this post on my blog: http://photopol.blogspot.com/2010/01/was-i-somebody.html You might be interested in the crossover section of this post on my blog:
http://photopol.blogspot.com/2010/01/was-i-somebody.html

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 Ian Poulton Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:49:10 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2926 I think Ireland pays far too much attention to the US - our domestic policies are far more shaped by the decisions of Merkel and Sarkozy than by anyone across the Atlantic. I think Ireland pays far too much attention to the US – our domestic policies are far more shaped by the decisions of Merkel and Sarkozy than by anyone across the Atlantic.

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2918 Póló Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:46:40 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2918 Obama does appear to be turning out a bit of a mickey dazzler, as my dear departed mother would have said: http://photopol.blogspot.com/2009/07/mickey-dazzler.html On the other hand I don't fancy McCain, and his Amazonian Alaskan partner clinched it. It does all raise the question of where the USA is going, though. Anyway, I don't want to turn this admirable parish site into cock-fight, so, nuff said. Obama does appear to be turning out a bit of a mickey dazzler, as my dear departed mother would have said:
http://photopol.blogspot.com/2009/07/mickey-dazzler.html
On the other hand I don’t fancy McCain, and his Amazonian Alaskan partner clinched it.

It does all raise the question of where the USA is going, though.

Anyway, I don’t want to turn this admirable parish site into cock-fight, so, nuff said.

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2914 Ian Poulton Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:15:41 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2914 If John McCain hadn't chosen that silly woman as a running mate, we wouldn't have any of this. With the GOP opening up a lead in the polls, Obama could be a lame duck president by November anyway, with the Republicans able to block all his proposals. If John McCain hadn’t chosen that silly woman as a running mate, we wouldn’t have any of this. With the GOP opening up a lead in the polls, Obama could be a lame duck president by November anyway, with the Republicans able to block all his proposals.

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2913 Póló Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:52:30 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2913 Value of my grandstand ticket just went up. :) Value of my grandstand ticket just went up. :)

]]> By: paddyanglican http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2909 paddyanglican Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:46:05 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2909 Ian - prepare to duck for cover! - I would hate you to be hit by friendly fire ;) Just got word that an Obama visit may be sooner than we thought. Moneygall is ready :-) Tell Katharine we will accept her surrender to avoid unnecessary carnage ;) Ian – prepare to duck for cover! – I would hate you to be hit by friendly fire ;) Just got word that an Obama visit may be sooner than we thought. Moneygall is ready :-) Tell Katharine we will accept her surrender to avoid unnecessary carnage ;)

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2908 Ian Poulton Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:54:46 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2908 The Miss Pim you remember would have been May, who died in 2003. The Miss Pim you remember would have been May, who died in 2003.

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2907 Póló Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:17:55 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2907 Ian Just goes to show it's always well worth talking about things and poking about. I've learned a lot myself in the last days about the place that I didn't know before. There was a Miss Pim in Secrora when I was there. I hadn't realised Joshua's achievements. I must include him in my interactive Google map of local "sons" in the nineteenth century. Thanks for the Wiki reference. This is the map (like everything else a work in progress): http://www.photopol.com/articles/sons.html You can manipulate the map via the coloured buttons at the top: yellow = townlands in the township - repeatedly pressing the button increases the intensity of the highlighting; brown = full township; blue = water supply - Killiney pumping station and Rathmichael reservoir/pressure tank; brown = contour lines - in feet; orange = obsolete train stations; green = personalities within the Ballybrack townland; pink = personalities within the township but ouside Ballybrack townland; black = recentre the map on original coordinates; red = clear all overlays. Hovering over a button will bring up a tooltip naming its function. If the thing gets out of control just press the reload button on your browser and start again. All comments welcome. I had a cut-off point for this in September 2008 for the lecture and have been concentrating on family history stuff since. You can check out Ballybrack other stuff, including maps, here: http://www.photopol.com/dca/index.html Enjoy. Ian

Just goes to show it’s always well worth talking about things and poking about. I’ve learned a lot myself in the last days about the place that I didn’t know before. There was a Miss Pim in Secrora when I was there. I hadn’t realised Joshua’s achievements. I must include him in my interactive Google map of local “sons” in the nineteenth century. Thanks for the Wiki reference. This is the map (like everything else a work in progress):
http://www.photopol.com/articles/sons.html

You can manipulate the map via the coloured buttons at the top: yellow = townlands in the township – repeatedly pressing the button increases the intensity of the highlighting; brown = full township; blue = water supply – Killiney pumping station and Rathmichael reservoir/pressure tank; brown = contour lines – in feet; orange = obsolete train stations; green = personalities within the Ballybrack townland; pink = personalities within the township but ouside Ballybrack townland; black = recentre the map on original coordinates; red = clear all overlays. Hovering over a button will bring up a tooltip naming its function. If the thing gets out of control just press the reload button on your browser and start again.

All comments welcome. I had a cut-off point for this in September 2008 for the lecture and have been concentrating on family history stuff since. You can check out Ballybrack other stuff, including maps, here:
http://www.photopol.com/dca/index.html

Enjoy.

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/01/01/a-return-to-the-local-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-2903 Ian Poulton Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:53:05 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=4124#comment-2903 Póló, That report makes excellent reading - the place hasn't changed in a century. I wonder if Orpen, the secretary to the vestry, was a connection of William Orpen, the war artist, who was a Stillorgan man. I looked at the 1911 Census and the Ballybrack Orpens are the only ones on the south side of Dublin. J Pim MD, one of the vestry members was medical officer at Loughlinstown Hospital. His daughter was born in 1909 and was a member of the parish when I came here. She had a photograph on her wall of a man with tennis trophies. 'Your father was good at tennis?' I inquired. She looked at me curiously. 'He was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Pim" rel="nofollow">twice Wimbledon</a> champion'. Póló,

That report makes excellent reading – the place hasn’t changed in a century.

I wonder if Orpen, the secretary to the vestry, was a connection of William Orpen, the war artist, who was a Stillorgan man. I looked at the 1911 Census and the Ballybrack Orpens are the only ones on the south side of Dublin.

J Pim MD, one of the vestry members was medical officer at Loughlinstown Hospital. His daughter was born in 1909 and was a member of the parish when I came here. She had a photograph on her wall of a man with tennis trophies. ‘Your father was good at tennis?’ I inquired.

She looked at me curiously. ‘He was twice Wimbledon champion’.

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