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Elizabeth Hickey Thank You Letters

Thornton Romances

April 20, 2015April 20, 2015 Eoin

Dear Nora: I?m sending you the reproduction of a page from the “Thornton Romances” sent to me by Lincoln University.? I do hope that it

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Mary Rose Mulvany of Dunsany

April 7, 2015April 7, 2015 Eoin

REMEMBERING MRS. ELIZABETH HICKEY I was never particularly interested in history until Maurice Mulvany, Anthony?s Dad, died. I was?introduced to so many cousins etc. at

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Video in Skryne Castle

April 7, 2015 Eoin

Hi Eoin, I hope all is well. I just came across this and thought you might find it interesting. It’s a carpet cleaning company that

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Update to Index

February 17, 2015 Eoin

This is a revision to the original (2010) index of Dear Grandchildren where we have given page numbers instead of chapter numbers and added some

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Story of the Family of Wandesforde of Kirklington and Castlecomer

December 23, 2014January 2, 2015 Eoin

Hi all, A great day today on the ancestral front. We discovered the existence of a book published in 1904 entitled?Story of the Family of

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Wandesforde Vault

September 26, 2014December 23, 2014 Eoin

Hi All, Today we began by visiting Kirklington church, where there is a vault containing Wandesforde ancestors. One of them, Christopher Wandesforde, was the father

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Letter from Tomas Moffett

June 6, 2012 Eoin

Dear Mr Hickey, Very many thanks for the copy of Dear Grandchildren. From reading it, it?s obvious that the late Mrs Elizabeth Hickey was ?a

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From the Nunnery to the Castle

December 7, 2010 Eoin

In the Summer of 1968 or ’69 I was marooned in the convent in Stamullen, Co Meath. Kindly Nora & Eoin, who were dating at

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Elizabeth Hickey – The Latter Years

November 16, 2010 Eoin

Elizabeth Hickey retired from teaching while still in her late fifties, she “needed time for the many things she had to do”. High on her

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Elizabeth Hickey – Writing, Publishing, History, Archaeology

November 16, 2010 Eoin

Elizabeth Hickey, our mother was a prolific writer. In this chapter we refer to her publications which include; – I Send My Love Along The

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Derrygooney

November 12, 2010 Eoin

Derrygooney is a townland in Co Monaghan and Derrygooney Lake is an idyllic place therein, adopted and beloved by our mother, Elizabeth Hickey from the

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Tape Recordings made mostly in the 1960s

November 12, 2010 Eoin

During the sixties our mother, Elizabeth Hickey embraced the latest technology – a new, heavy, two nine inch reel, electric tape recorder. We have in

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Elizabeth Hickey – The Teaching Years

November 12, 2010 Eoin

Elizabeth Hickey, our mother, taught for about twenty years from the early 1960s. We record her time in a special new school for disruptive girls

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Elizabeth Hickey – The Middle Years

November 12, 2010 Eoin

Our parents, Noel Sydney Hickey and Elizabeth (Malet-Warden) married in 1941. Robin and Peter the twins and Eoin were born while they lived at 18.

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Elizabeth Hickey – The Early Years

November 11, 2010 Eoin

Here we write about our mother’s early life, born in Scotland in 1917, through to her marriage and arrival at Skryne Castle in 1948. Her

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