"If I never kiss another boy until I'm 18-years-old and I share my gobstoppers and weekly pocket money with you and let you be boss of our gang, will you marry me when I grow up, Billy? I'll cook for you, darn your holey socks, empty the dustbins, let you control the television control and provide you with anything else a good Catholic boy could ever want for. And I won't tell my mum. Honest!" William Forde: July 6th, 2013
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The Priest's Calling Card
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- Chapter One - The Irish Custom
- Chapter Two - Patrick Duffy's Family Background
- Chapter Three - Patrick Duffy Junior's Vocation to Priesthood
- Chapter Four - The first years of the priesthood
- Chapter Five - Father Patrick Duffy in Seattle
- Chapter Six - Father Patrick Duffy, Portlaw Priest
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Sean and Sarah
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- Chapter 1 - 'Return of the Prodigal Son'
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- Chapter 4 - 'Separation and Betrayal'
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The Life of Liam Lafferty
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- Chapter One: ' Liam Lafferty is born'
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- Chapter Four : Early Manhood
- Chapter Five : Ned's Secret Past
- Chapter Six : Courtship and Marriage
- Chapter Seven : Liam and Trish marry
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- Chapter Nine : 'Ned comes clean to Farley'
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- Chapter One : 'The marriage of Margaret Mawd and Thomas Walsh’
- Chapter Two 'The birth of Joe Walsh'
- Chapter Three 'Marriage breakup and betrayal'
- Chapter Four: ' The Walsh family breakup'
- Chapter Five : ' Liverpool Lodgings'
- Chapter Six: ' Settled times are established and tested'
- Chapter Seven : 'Haworth is heaven is a place on earth'
- Chapter Eight: 'Coming out'
- Chapter Nine: Portlaw revenge
- Chapter Ten: ' The murder trial of Paddy Groggy'
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The Woman Who Hated Christmas
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- Chapter One: 'The Christmas Enigma'
- Chapter Two: ' The Breakup of Beth's Family''
- Chapter Three: From Teenager to Adulthood.'
- Chapter Four: 'The Mills of West Yorkshire.'
- Chapter Five: 'Harrison Garner Showdown.'
- Chapter Six : 'The Christmas Dance'
- Chapter Seven : 'The ballot for Shop Steward.'
- Chapter Eight: ' Leaving the Mill'
- Chapter Ten: ' Beth buries her Ghosts'
- Chapter Eleven: Beth and Dermot start off married life in Galway.
- Chapter Twelve: The Twin Tragedy of Christmas, 1992.'
- Chapter Thirteen: 'The Christmas star returns'
- Chapter Fourteen: ' Beth's future in Portlaw'
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The Last Dance
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- Chapter One - ‘Nancy Swales becomes the Widow Swales’
- Chapter Two ‘The secret night life of Widow Swales’
- Chapter Three ‘Meeting Richard again’
- Chapter Four ‘Clancy’s Ballroom: March 1961’
- Chapter Five ‘The All Ireland Dancing Rounds’
- Chapter Six ‘James Mountford’
- Chapter Seven ‘The All Ireland Ballroom Latin American Dance Final.’
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‘The Postman Always Knocks Twice’
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- Chapter Five
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- Chapter Eight
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Thought for today:
"If I never kiss another boy until I'm 18-years-old and I share my gobstoppers and weekly pocket money with you and let you be boss of our gang, will you marry me when I grow up, Billy? I'll cook for you, darn your holey socks, empty the dustbins, let you control the television control and provide you with anything else a good Catholic boy could ever want for. And I won't tell my mum. Honest!" William Forde: July 6th, 2013
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Thought for today: "You too would laugh with the Queen and her son if you'd also been granted a 5% rise in next year's income instead of a fourth year of pay freezes and benefit reductions. Remember what our leader David Cameron keeps telling us loudly, 'We are all in this together.' Now, that's a laugh!" William Forde: July 5th, 2013. Thought for today: "The greatest of all parental struggles I feel is when a mother and father watch their children step out into the world without a safety net. This happens at various stages of their development and however much we try to be happy with it, it seems to be our purpose in their lives to worry on their behalf. We worry when they stay out late for their first dance; when they leave home for the first time to take up university digs and when they walk down that marriage aisle, particularly if it's with a partner of their dreams that your experience shouts out, 'Nightmare! Nightmare! It will all end in tears.' We worry when we have to sit back and watch them make their mistakes, just as we did before them. In short; when they are children we encourage their independence, but as they grow older, we try to restrain it 'for their own good' or grant them their independence reluctantly, tied up with strings attatched. When I was young and had committed some wrongful act that demanded being admonished and was feeling bad about myself, my mother would always place her arms around my shoulders and remind me of her'Mother's Mantra'. She would say, 'Through hell and high water , rain or shine, I'm your mum and I'll always be there for you; I love you. don't you ever forget that!' I never did and she always was! 'If necessary son, I would die for you, but I will never live for you. We all deserve our independence.'" Happy Independence Day." William Forde: July 4th, 2013. Thought for today: " I am to you what you are to me, and we are to one another what others can never be.Though we be be one in heart, body, mind and soul, they'll be no other, no part no whole; only the time, things, space we shared; only fond memories, laughter, joys and cares. For when life is done and no longer shall be, together we'll form the heavens and be the skies, land, underworld and sea. I love you, Sheila. You are my life and encompass all there is to love. Bill x" William Forde: July 3rd, 2013. Thought for today: "You've heard of the saying that 'the postman always rings twice', haven't you? Well, don't you believe it 'cos it aint true! There have been numerous occasions over the past couple of years when I have been sitting in the lounge and have heard the letterbox and have picked up the message that had just been pushed through it. The message had the sheer audacity and deceit to say, 'We tried to deliver a package to your house today, but received no reply. Please contact....... and arrange to collect. There will be a fee of...... to pay.' Now, I know that all workers are being expected to do more for less wage today, but I cannot believe that today's postman does not have the time to either knock on the door or to ring the doorbell once before he disappears with my long-awaited parcel, and then has the cheek to charge me for his incompetence. And as for those occasions when one is away from home on their annual break, the Royal Mail is no better. One never knows what they will find waiting for them on their return home from a holiday in Thailand these days. The postmen don't seem to care anymore. They just don't give a whistle like they once did. As long as there's a space on your doorstep to offload your parcel, they're more likely to dump it there than bother knocking on your neighbour's door to hold the goods for you until your return." William Forde: July 2nd, 2013. Thought for today: " Never was one so loved as I love you today; never in the whole wide universe was the synchronisation of two hearts ever closer in their beat as one. You are to me all that I ever wanted and dreamed of; all that one creature has a right to hope will one day come their way. Without you, my child, my life would not only be without one source of infinite love, but the true feeling of love itself would be lessened to the strain of such loss. Let me hold you tight and close to me while you are still so small and vulnerable so that I may remember in my old age the sensation of true contentment of being and total conviction of purpose. The day will come soon enough when you shall crave to leave my bosom and establish your own independence and family, but until that moment arrives, hush and give your mother just one more loving squeeze, for my heart yearns to be stirred once more." William Forde: July 1st, 2013. |
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