Sally was Born on the 22nd January 1918

Assuming this is you, Ken…

I follow your Facebook posts, and more recently your Flickr stream with keen interest. We have a lot in common – including a couple of FB friends.

I saw the attached photo (Maguire family at Blackditch thumbnail) on your Flickr and noticed it came to you from my Aunt Sally (Maguire) late of Le Fanu Road. Sally was a gas character and – if “family history” serves me right probably sat the driving test more than anyone in history before they’d give her a licence to drive her old Heinkel “bubble car” initially and later her navy Fiat 500. We used occasionally call in to visit Paddy and Sally on our way (walking) from home in Chapelizod to my grandparents’ house on at the 7th Lock – but you couldn’t do it too often as there was no such thing as a quick visit there. But there was always biscuits!

The man on the right of that photo is my grandfather, Christopher (Christy/Kit) Maguire. (Actually, he changed the spelling to McGuire sometime around 1920s because he thought the “Mc” was more Irish. A clerical error later in my father’s history saw it changed back to Maguire). Kit lived with his wife (Nora, nee Morrissey of Jamestown Road, Inchicore) at 6, 7th Lock Cottages – the last house before the canal bridge. (Where he was famous for his flower garden – photo also attached, House at 7th Lock).

The attached, ‘McGuires on RTE’, is a screenshot I took from an RTE “Reeling in the Years” programme a couple of years ago. The still shows my grandmother, Nora on the left, grandfather Kit in the middle and their daughter, Marie (Sr Monica) now an 86-year old retired nun in Southampton, the last of her generation, on the right. My grandfather died in October 1970. He had been a collector at The Oblates in Inchicore and stayed with that parish as much as he could after Ballyfermot was built. (My aunt Josephine McGuire volunteered and did bookkeeping for The Church of the Assumption).

Going back to Sally’s original photo, I might guess that beside my grandfather to his left is his brother Pat, Sally’s husband. Sally was quite a lot younger than him. (See Paddy and Sally’s wedding photo attached). The girl one left and in front of Paddy in the photo is probably Kathleen. Confusingly for us as kids (for reasons that will become clear) Kathleen married a man called Holland and they lived on Lucan Road in Palmerstown. (Son Kieran Holland used to drive a CIE Bus. He also has a brother called Walter – my own father’s name).

You also have a few photos of my dad in your Flickr “CIE Inchicore Works” collection. (Attached – my dad Wally in the white shopcoat on the left. He was the carriage shop foreman). His father worked there before him as a blacksmith’s mate, my dad then as a coachbuilder and my late brother, Chris, as a boilermaker. My father died while on sick leave in July 1986…

At the risk of moving beyond your area of interest, the final photograph (“Dublin Wedding”) is of my maternal grandparent’s wedding in 1922 at Goldenbridge. The earlier mentioned confusion arose because my mother’s mother was nee Maguire – no relation to my father’s people – and her father was Holland (no relation to Kathleen’s husband’s people). My mother’s parents died young and she consequently spent a lot of her childhood being reared by an aunt in England, so she’s not a great source of info. Of interest in this photo however might be Colbert Daly. His dad, Pa Daly, was a great friend of my grandfathers’ family -- he was the brother of Ned Daly of 1916 fame. (Colbert took what is a famous family photo of my brothers and me in the late 60s -- he was a Dublin Corporation photographer). His sister, Philomena is still alive, in her mid-80s and a retired nun. (She and one of my mother’s sisters, Helen Holland, were interviewed for an oral history programme – I’ve bought the audio). Jim Henry, later married to my mother’s aunt, May Holland, lived to a ripe old age and I visited Kilmainham Gaol with him where I have a photo standing with him outside the cell he was interned in. My grandmother’s wedding dress (and shoes) and the mess records relating to the wedding presents they received from the officers’ mess are displayed in the national museum at Collins’ Barracks. If you Google “Dublin Wedding British Pathe” you’ll find a ‘video’ of this event – it made the newsreels!

I have a few more photos to share with you when I know I’m not talking to myself!

All the best and keep up the good work!

John Maguire
Late of Chapelizod and now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (but not for long).

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I follow your Facebook posts, and more recently your Flickr stream with keen interest. We have a lot in common – including a couple of FB friends.

I saw the attached photo (Maguire family at Blackditch thumbnail) on your Flickr and noticed it came to you from my Aunt Sally (Maguire) late of Le Fanu Road. Sally was a gas character and – if “family history” serves me right probably sat the driving test more than anyone in history before they’d give her a licence to drive her old Heinkel “bubble car” initially and later her navy Fiat 500. We used occasionally call in to visit Paddy and Sally on our way (walking) from home in Chapelizod to my grandparents’ house on at the 7th Lock – but you couldn’t do it too often as there was no such thing as a quick visit there. But there was always biscuits!

The man on the right of that photo is my grandfather, Christopher (Christy/Kit) Maguire. (Actually, he changed the spelling to McGuire sometime around 1920s because he thought the “Mc” was more Irish. A clerical error later in my father’s history saw it changed back to Maguire). Kit lived with his wife (Nora, nee Morrissey of Jamestown Road, Inchicore) at 6, 7th Lock Cottages – the last house before the canal bridge. (Where he was famous for his flower garden – photo also attached, House at 7th Lock).

The attached, ‘McGuires on RTE’, is a screenshot I took from an RTE “Reeling in the Years” programme a couple of years ago. The still shows my grandmother, Nora on the left, grandfather Kit in the middle and their daughter, Marie (Sr Monica) now an 86-year old retired nun in Southampton, the last of her generation, on the right. My grandfather died in October 1970. He had been a collector at The Oblates in Inchicore and stayed with that parish as much as he could after Ballyfermot was built. (My aunt Josephine McGuire volunteered and did bookkeeping for The Church of the Assumption).

Going back to Sally’s original photo, I might guess that beside my grandfather to his left is his brother Pat, Sally’s husband. Sally was quite a lot younger than him. (See Paddy and Sally’s wedding photo attached). The girl one left and in front of Paddy in the photo is probably Kathleen. Confusingly for us as kids (for reasons that will become clear) Kathleen married a man called Holland and they lived on Lucan Road in Palmerstown. (Son Kieran Holland used to drive a CIE Bus. He also has a brother called Walter – my own father’s name).

You also have a few photos of my dad in your Flickr “CIE Inchicore Works” collection. (Attached – my dad Wally in the white shopcoat on the left. He was the carriage shop foreman). His father worked there before him as a blacksmith’s mate, my dad then as a coachbuilder and my late brother, Chris, as a boilermaker. My father died while on sick leave in July 1986…

At the risk of moving beyond your area of interest, the final photograph (“Dublin Wedding”) is of my maternal grandparent’s wedding in 1922 at Goldenbridge. The earlier mentioned confusion arose because my mother’s mother was nee Maguire – no relation to my father’s people – and her father was Holland (no relation to Kathleen’s husband’s people). My mother’s parents died young and she consequently spent a lot of her childhood being reared by an aunt in England, so she’s not a great source of info. Of interest in this photo however might be Colbert Daly. His dad, Pa Daly, was a great friend of my grandfathers’ family -- he was the brother of Ned Daly of 1916 fame. (Colbert took what is a famous family photo of my brothers and me in the late 60s -- he was a Dublin Corporation photographer). His sister, Philomena is still alive, in her mid-80s and a retired nun. (She and one of my mother’s sisters, Helen Holland, were interviewed for an oral history programme – I’ve bought the audio). Jim Henry, later married to my mother’s aunt, May Holland, lived to a ripe old age and I visited Kilmainham Gaol with him where I have a photo standing with him outside the cell he was interned in. My grandmother’s wedding dress (and shoes) and the mess records relating to the wedding presents they received from the officers’ mess are displayed in the national museum at Collins’ Barracks. If you Google “Dublin Wedding British Pathe” you’ll find a ‘video’ of this event – it made the newsreels!

I have a few more photos to share with you when I know I’m not talking to myself!

All the best and keep up the good work!

John Maguire
Late of Chapelizod and now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (but not for long).

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You also have a few photos of my dad in your Flickr “CIE Inchicore Works” collection. (Attached – my dad Wally in the white shopcoat on the left. He was the carriage shop foreman). His father worked there before him as a blacksmith’s mate, my dad then as a coachbuilder and my late brother, Chris, as a boilermaker. My father died while on sick leave in July 1986…


I follow your Facebook posts, and more recently your Flickr stream with keen interest. We have a lot in common – including a couple of FB friends.

I saw the attached photo (Maguire family at Blackditch thumbnail) on your Flickr and noticed it came to you from my Aunt Sally (Maguire) late of Le Fanu Road. Sally was a gas character and – if “family history” serves me right probably sat the driving test more than anyone in history before they’d give her a licence to drive her old Heinkel “bubble car” initially and later her navy Fiat 500. We used occasionally call in to visit Paddy and Sally on our way (walking) from home in Chapelizod to my grandparents’ house on at the 7th Lock – but you couldn’t do it too often as there was no such thing as a quick visit there. But there was always biscuits!

The man on the right of that photo is my grandfather, Christopher (Christy/Kit) Maguire. (Actually, he changed the spelling to McGuire sometime around 1920s because he thought the “Mc” was more Irish. A clerical error later in my father’s history saw it changed back to Maguire). Kit lived with his wife (Nora, nee Morrissey of Jamestown Road, Inchicore) at 6, 7th Lock Cottages – the last house before the canal bridge. (Where he was famous for his flower garden – photo also attached, House at 7th Lock).

The attached, ‘McGuires on RTE’, is a screenshot I took from an RTE “Reeling in the Years” programme a couple of years ago. The still shows my grandmother, Nora on the left, grandfather Kit in the middle and their daughter, Marie (Sr Monica) now an 86-year old retired nun in Southampton, the last of her generation, on the right. My grandfather died in October 1970. He had been a collector at The Oblates in Inchicore and stayed with that parish as much as he could after Ballyfermot was built. (My aunt Josephine McGuire volunteered and did bookkeeping for The Church of the Assumption).

Going back to Sally’s original photo, I might guess that beside my grandfather to his left is his brother Pat, Sally’s husband. Sally was quite a lot younger than him. (See Paddy and Sally’s wedding photo attached). The girl one left and in front of Paddy in the photo is probably Kathleen. Confusingly for us as kids (for reasons that will become clear) Kathleen married a man called Holland and they lived on Lucan Road in Palmerstown. (Son Kieran Holland used to drive a CIE Bus. He also has a brother called Walter – my own father’s name).

You also have a few photos of my dad in your Flickr “CIE Inchicore Works” collection. (Attached – my dad Wally in the white shopcoat on the left. He was the carriage shop foreman). His father worked there before him as a blacksmith’s mate, my dad then as a coachbuilder and my late brother, Chris, as a boilermaker. My father died while on sick leave in July 1986…

At the risk of moving beyond your area of interest, the final photograph (“Dublin Wedding”) is of my maternal grandparent’s wedding in 1922 at Goldenbridge. The earlier mentioned confusion arose because my mother’s mother was nee Maguire – no relation to my father’s people – and her father was Holland (no relation to Kathleen’s husband’s people). My mother’s parents died young and she consequently spent a lot of her childhood being reared by an aunt in England, so she’s not a great source of info. Of interest in this photo however might be Colbert Daly. His dad, Pa Daly, was a great friend of my grandfathers’ family -- he was the brother of Ned Daly of 1916 fame. (Colbert took what is a famous family photo of my brothers and me in the late 60s -- he was a Dublin Corporation photographer). His sister, Philomena is still alive, in her mid-80s and a retired nun. (She and one of my mother’s sisters, Helen Holland, were interviewed for an oral history programme – I’ve bought the audio). Jim Henry, later married to my mother’s aunt, May Holland, lived to a ripe old age and I visited Kilmainham Gaol with him where I have a photo standing with him outside the cell he was interned in. My grandmother’s wedding dress (and shoes) and the mess records relating to the wedding presents they received from the officers’ mess are displayed in the national museum at Collins’ Barracks. If you Google “Dublin Wedding British Pathe” you’ll find a ‘video’ of this event – it made the newsreels!

I have a few more photos to share with you when I know I’m not talking to myself!

All the best and keep up the good work!

John Maguire
Late of Chapelizod and now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (but not for long).

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John Maguire - This one is taken in the front garden of No.6, 7th Lock Cottages, Killeen road -- where my grandparents lived

Paddy McGuire is on the right. My dad, Wally, is to the left of and behind Paddy and my grandfather, Christy (Kit) to the left of him -- with his hands on my shoulders. Sally is in the middle with the lamppost to her left. I'll need to consult to get all the names. (The family were "Maguire", but my grandfather changed the spelling to McGuire around the time of the rising as he wanted a less Anglicised form. Somewhere after my parents' marriage my generation accidentally reverted to the original spelling).

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