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Limerick City

Christmas was Magic and Magic was Mother

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

1959- The Harty Family, Limerick City.

One Christmas was so much like another in those years, to borrow a line from Dylan Thomas. Mother, who celebrated every feast day with aplomb – Shrove Tuesday with specially prepared pancakes, Halloween with monkey nuts (peanuts in the shell), bobbing for apples, and Barmbrack – saved her most elaborate plans for Christmas. And I do mean saved. We had a farm but money was far … [Read more...] about Christmas was Magic and Magic was Mother

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