"The key to the kingdom should be the most impressive of all keys. It is the key that is capable of opening one's purse to all manner of charity; to opening one's house in welcome to all manner of visitor and the key to the opening of one's heart to all compassionate and just cause. All that is required is the recognition of its rightful use and place, for once turned it shall open up the gates of heaven and provide you with all that lies beyond whatever your religion happens to be." William Forde: October 6th, 2013.
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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
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- 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'
- Chapter 2 - 'The early years of sweet innocence in Portlaw'
- Chapter 3 - 'The Separation'
- Chapter 4 - 'Separation and Betrayal'
- Chapter 5 - 'Portlaw to Manchester'
- Chapter 6 - 'Salford Choices'
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The Life of Liam Lafferty
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- Chapter One: ' Liam Lafferty is born'
- Chapter Two : 'The Baptism of Liam Lafferty'
- Chapter Three: 'The early years of Liam Lafferty'
- Chapter Four : Early Manhood
- Chapter Five : Ned's Secret Past
- Chapter Six : Courtship and Marriage
- Chapter Seven : Liam and Trish marry
- Chapter Eight : Farley meets Ned
- Chapter Nine : 'Ned comes clean to Farley'
- Chapter Ten : Tragedy hits the family
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The life and times of Joe Walsh
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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'
- Chapter Eleven: 'New beginnings'
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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.’
- Chapter Eight ‘The Final Arrives’
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‘The Postman Always Knocks Twice’
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- Chapter Eight
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- Chapter Ten
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- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
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- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
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Thought for today:
"The key to the kingdom should be the most impressive of all keys. It is the key that is capable of opening one's purse to all manner of charity; to opening one's house in welcome to all manner of visitor and the key to the opening of one's heart to all compassionate and just cause. All that is required is the recognition of its rightful use and place, for once turned it shall open up the gates of heaven and provide you with all that lies beyond whatever your religion happens to be." William Forde: October 6th, 2013.
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Thought for today: "Isn't it strange that those people in the world within the poorest of nations are, on a one-to-one basis, the most generous of people in the world. However little they have, they are prepared to share with their fellow creature. Between 1990 and 2000, I raised over £200,000 for charitable causes (mostly from the sales of my published books in Yorkshire schools), and without single exception, it was always the poorest who gave the most. I rarely saw exceptional generosity come from a rich man's camp. It invariably came from those pockets with the least to spare. I once asked my mother, 'How do I know how much to give to this good cause and that cause, and how do I know when I have given enough?' My mother replied, 'If the amount that you have given doesn't hurt your pocket, then it is probably not enough!' I once went to Manchester with my mother and though we had little money at the time, she placed a £1-note in the outstretched hand of a beggar who had asked for pennies for a cup of tea. As the beggar ran off in glee, I berated my mother for her foolishness and told her that tea would be the last thing on the beggar's mind and if we followed the blighter, he'd be in the nearest pub now. 'Oh why,oh why did you give him the money, Mum? We needed it. He'll be buying no tea today, I'll wager!' I said in exasperation. My mother simply smiled and said,'You're probably right, Billy. Tea will probably be the last thing the beggar will have on his mind or buy with my £1 note, but if I didn't give it this time, I'd probably not give it the next time, and that might be the one time that a beggar deserves it and is truly in need of a cup of tea?' My mother was a relatively uneducated person who had to leave school at the age of 13 years to help her mother raise her six younger children, but wisdom was not one of the things that she lacked in." William Forde: October 5th, 2013. Thought for today: "Depression is one of the most cancerous illnesses that one can have and while I have never thankfully experienced it, I have worked with sufferers of depression for almost 50 years. It eats away at the sufferer, constantly robbing them of necessary sleep, a positive self-image from which to sustain effort and, if left untreated long enough, can be so bad as to lead the person to feel as though they'd be better off dead. In all too many cases, they even attempt suicide. There are numerous causes of depression and almost just as many different treatment regimes. Among the ones that would seem to carry the greater level of successes, I would include, counselling, relaxation training, rational emotive therapy, yoga and autogenic training. First and foremost however, the depressed person requires enough energy inside their body with which to engage in any purposeful activity or treatment programme. The means that they acquire this vital energy level is by re-establishing a good sleeping pattern. Towards this end, I produced a special tape over forty years ago that has proved highly successful and which can be obtained freely from my website entitled, 'Relax with Bill'. The tape has never been sold, nor will it ever be and I turned down a lucrative offer for its copyright sale over thirty years ago, since when over 5,000 copies have been given to poor sleepers at no cost. The tape induces sleep and should not be used whenever engaged in any precision activity that requires full alertness. Other people who are advised not to use the tape are pregnant women, persons with brain abnormalities and people who usually have very low blood pressure levels. Please click here to access free. 01_relaxation_with_bill.mp3 " William Forde: October 4th, 2013. Thought for today: "The smaller a pet, the more care they need and the more they depend on you. Often, with infants as well as very small animals, we adults forget precisely how enormous in proportion to their tiny bodies we actually are. Fancy having a big monster face poking itself inside your cot or pram saying,' Coochy, coochy.' It's enough to put two fingers up at, isn't it half?" William Forde: October 3rd, 2013. Thought for today: "Now, look here Squirt. If I've told you once, I've told you a dozen times, fish face, stay where you are! Far better to be a big fish in a small pond than to move yourself into deeper waters that you'll only get lost in. It might look good out here on a sunny day like today, but don't let the greenness of the grass of others confuse you. Life out here can be pretty murky and shitty too from time to time, even for a happy-go-lucky chap like me. Better stick to swimming in waters that you know, Squirt." William Forde: October 2nd, 2013. Thought for today: "Many years ago as a Relaxation Instructor I learnt that individuals are prone to mimic without knowing that they are engaged in this practice. Such knowledge was to prove extremely helpful in the years that followed as I engaged in working with many stressful, angry and out-of -control clients. A good worker knows that to raise ones voice to an already angry and loud-voiced person is wholly counter-productive as it simply guarantees that they will become angrier. The only way is to talk in a firm yet softly spoken tone of voice. Similarly, mirroring the looks of a depressed person is only guaranteed to depress them further and simply telling them to 'cheer up' or 'snap out of it' when they obviously cannot is a futile request with which they are unable to comply. The person in control knows that what how they speak, look, and act overall will be unconsciously mimicked by the other person who is not in control of their behaviour. Even the type and the pace of your breathing pattern will be copied unknowingly. Even a foetus inside the tummy of a pregnant mother is known to mirror the mother's mood and breathing pattern. When the pregnant woman is stressed, then so is her foetus, and when she is calm, so is her child inside. There is little point to being in control of any situation if you do not try to exercise any influence as to the eventual outcome of others who are not in control. Now the only remaining question is who is copying who; the dog or the child or does it even matter?" William Forde: October 1st, 2013. |
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