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ginsoakedboy | 14.05.2005 16:59 | Alisoneen Alisoneen is just fine, but I'll probably stick to Alli :-) If your Dad tells you the stories are true, then they are true, that's my policy anyway, and one I stick with when telling my lads a few slightly stretched tales. It's not so bad now for mixed(Catholic/Protestant) marriages, but still a bit rough in some parts of the North. I'm the product of one myself, father's side Catholic, mother Protestant -although her mother converted to Rome whenabout sixty . Some of here children are C of E, RC, C of Scot, and not baptised at all after my Grandfather (died in late 70's) had a row with a the clergy . He beleived in God, but was very cross with him for all the bad things in the world. Mother's side are all British, father's Irish. It's much more complicated than it seems, really :-) So no wonder I have graduated to being an atheist, although I have been known to speak to God after a dose of poteen. Anyway, I enjoyed your stories, especially the one about the gun in the bed. Anyone who missed it here it is again------ "Well, apparently my grandfather used to smuggle poteen from South to North way back when... Also, when he married my grandmother (lovely lovely lady - a nurse) the story goes that she was from a Catholic family and he was Protestant.. or the other way around. On their wedding night they slept with a gun because her brothers had threatened to kill my Grandad! That was the reason for them moving over here when my Dad was about 7. That and for work. My Grandad went on to be the Union rep in a big factory in Kent (my father was marketing manager there) and turned up one day on my mother's doorstep sobbing his heart out. He was drunk and he had spent all the union dues on beer in the pub and was beside himself. Mum says she almost keeled over from the fumes. The only part of these stories I KNOW is true is the last part. We have a great laugh about it now. He was a happy drunk really although rather irresponsible and probably has a lot to do with the reputation the Irish have in this country! My Great-Grandmother (mother of my grandmother) was in fact the captain of some quite well known ladies Irish cricket team or something. Do you think my dad has been spinning me a yarn all these years?" |