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Jim Harpur’s Active Service Unit Certificate

November 26th, 2009

Prompted by some comments on this entry, I took a photo of the certificate we have in the study, showing that my maternal grandfather Jim Harpur played his part in the HQ Active Service Unit during the Irish War of Independence.

Jim Harpur's ASU Certificate

Jim Harpur's ASU Certificate

There’s a high resolution version available here (opens a new window).

I believe the little crosses next to some of the names indicate that that person died in service, but I’m not 100% sure about that.  I hope it’s useful or interesting  to somebody

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The Green green leaves of home.

September 5th, 2007

leaves, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

I took this picture yesterday and was happy with it.

 Today I heard that my elder son, Luke, was getting bullied in school. It seems the fact that he is food phobic is a cause for laughter amongst some of his class mates. He is 5 years old, and yes he is a bit different WRT his eating, but I didn’t think he’d get abuse at this age – it seems a tad young.

Lets hope that things improve. I’ve read the inspiring stories to him, “faster, faster little red train” and the associated series. Doesn’t seem to work, Luke is a deep thinker. I hope he talks to me before this gets to be a problem.

I live in hope.

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Sports Day

July 17th, 2007

The first of two sports days turned out as I expected. Very, very wet. Judy and our neighbour Tracy braved the elements without brollies ‘in solidarity with the kids’. Sod that, I had my raincoat, my waterproof peaked cap and a brollie so I was fine. I did enough of all that guff when I was a kid, playing Gaelic football on a windswept field in the middle of winter in North Dublin. No thank you.

Luke doing a beam walking type thing

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My Dad’s recollections of the Connolly Family role in the Irish War of Independence

July 13th, 2007

Phew – short, snappy title that. My brother Paul sent me an electronic version of a document that our Dad wrote a few years ago regarding the role his Dad, also called Richard Connolly, played in the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War. I’ve put this on a separate page here.

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