Comments on: The Radio http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/ I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance Mon, 21 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: joe keane http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35468 joe keane Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:32:36 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35468 Hi Grannymar, I still have all the cards and other items that I was sent all those years ago. But I hope when I call to their embassy in Rathgar later this week, that they will find time to talk to us. I am off now to our writers club. We missed last weeks, because of the weather conditions. This meeting each week is very important to all of us, and has a mixed bag of members, Doctors. academics, and in general people who have tasted the experience of life. Everyone has at least one book in them. Take care now and keep up the good work. Hi Grannymar,
I still have all the cards and other items that I was sent all those years ago. But I hope when I call to their embassy in Rathgar later this week, that they will find time to talk to us.
I am off now to our writers club. We missed last weeks, because of the weather conditions. This meeting each week is very important to all of us, and has a mixed bag of members, Doctors. academics, and in general people who have tasted the experience of life. Everyone has at least one book in them. Take care now and keep up the good work.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35460 Grannymar Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:14:53 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35460 Joe - Pity you don't have some of those postcards to take with you to the Russian Embassy they might find them interesting. Joe - Pity you don’t have some of those postcards to take with you to the Russian Embassy they might find them interesting.

]]> By: joe keane http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35457 joe keane Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:19:48 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35457 Hi Grannymar, Thank you for your comments. Getting visas for Moscow will be the hurdle I have to overcome but it may work ok. My wife is a citizen of the Philippines and in her case she has to get visas for European travel also. I do hope it works out as we both love travel. As a schoolboy I listened to Radio Moscow on the short wave band of my bush radio. I wrote to the station and they sent me many postcards and information on Russian culture. I told them I was a stamp collector and they sent me loads of Russian stamps. I was the envy of my friends, because this was during the cold war, and anyone making contact with Russia was viewed as a budding communist. I am sure there is an eleven year old schoolboy somewhere in the archives of some of our department foreign affairs. I am hoping to visit their Embassy in Dublin this week. Perhaps they will give me a sympathetic hearing. I am glad I found your website and look forward to reading future comments Hi Grannymar,
Thank you for your comments. Getting visas for Moscow will be the hurdle I have to overcome but it may work ok. My wife is a citizen of the Philippines and in her case she has to get visas for European travel also. I do hope it works out as we both love travel. As a schoolboy I listened to Radio Moscow on the short wave band of my bush radio. I wrote to the station and they sent me many postcards and information on Russian culture. I told them I was a stamp collector and they sent me loads of Russian stamps. I was the envy of my friends, because this was during the cold war, and anyone making contact with Russia was viewed as a budding communist. I am sure there is an eleven year old schoolboy somewhere in the archives of some of our department foreign affairs. I am hoping to visit their Embassy in Dublin this week. Perhaps they will give me a sympathetic hearing. I am glad I found your website and look forward to reading future comments

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35455 Grannymar Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:55:25 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35455 Hi Joe, and welcome! I like the sound of your train trip to Moscow next Spring, and would love to read all about it on your return. Hi Joe, and welcome!

I like the sound of your train trip to Moscow next Spring, and would love to read all about it on your return.

]]> By: joe keane http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35447 joe keane Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:44:39 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35447 Hi, I have such distant memories of radio Eireann and indeed radio programmes in general. I recall winning a telescope and some nature books on J. Ashton Freemans radio programme. Also I won a few times on Marion Kings "Drawing and Painting" Denis Fitzgibbon "Din Joe" was married to a cousin of my Mothers. I am still going strong, planning a train trip to Moscow this Spring, and I have recently joined a writers club in Galway. Other members marvel at my contributions, not because of my literary expertise so much as my vivid memories of things past. I like your website. Hi,
I have such distant memories of radio Eireann and indeed radio programmes in general. I recall winning a telescope and some nature books on J. Ashton Freemans radio programme. Also I won a few times on Marion Kings “Drawing and Painting” Denis Fitzgibbon “Din Joe” was married to a cousin of my Mothers. I am still going strong, planning a train trip to Moscow this Spring, and I have recently joined a writers club in Galway. Other members marvel at my contributions, not because of my literary expertise so much as my vivid memories of things past. I like your website.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35258 Grannymar Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:17:48 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35258 Arthur - I suggest you contact RTE about their archives as I know nothing about them. SK - If memory serves me well, The Foley family, were years before Harbour Hotel. Arthur - I suggest you contact RTE about their archives as I know nothing about them.

SK - If memory serves me well, The Foley family, were years before Harbour Hotel.

]]> By: sk http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35257 sk Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:14:13 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35257 arthur was it any connection to harbour hotel? arthur
was it any connection to harbour hotel?

]]> By: arthur moore http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-35256 arthur moore Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-35256 i listened to the foley family for years written by david hayes ? have rte got any recordings on the archieve page as i don't seem to be able to find them the programme was great craic thanks i listened to the foley family for years written by david hayes ? have rte got any recordings on the archieve page as i don’t seem to be able to find them
the programme was great craic

thanks

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-25394 Grannymar Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:01:23 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-25394 Dessweeney, You are welcome. Dessweeney,

You are welcome.

]]> By: Dessweeney http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-radio/#comment-25393 Dessweeney Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:37:33 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1014#comment-25393 Thanks, Grannymar, for your prompt reply. Thanks, Grannymar, for your prompt reply.

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