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header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">When Bertie Trimble<br \/>heard Mick McCluskey,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">who played piccolo<br \/>in the Grattan Band,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">whistling up the Forthill<br \/>they say he scanned<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the beech tops<br \/>for a nightingale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I don\u2019t know so much about that.<br \/>But this I do know,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">if you listen hard,<br \/>you can still hear the Grattans,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">their disbanded fifes and drums,<br \/>pounding the streets,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">their leader\u2019s baton<br \/>surmounted by a harp,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in uniforms the mill girls\u2019<br \/>pocket money\u2019s paid for.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_audio audio=&#8221;http:\/\/kevinquinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nightingale.m4a&#8221; title=&#8221;NIGHTINGALE&#8221; artist_name=&#8221;Kevin Quinn&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_audio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #At-The-Nylon-Factory-Reunion&#8221; module_id=&#8221;At-The-Nylon-Factory-Reunion&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;At-The-Nylon-Factory-Reunion&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;AT THE NYLON FACTORY REUNION&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Remember the lunchtimes,<br \/>trying everything on?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">How ribaldry begets <br \/>camaraderie, us all<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">just twigging <br \/>to the brilliant wheeze<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of being employees.<br \/>A resident manicurist,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">for god\u2019s sake. <br \/>You couldn\u2019t have nails<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">snagging on the fabric.<br \/>Austerity was out the window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A town on its knees<br \/>was pulling up its socks,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">putting an end <br \/>to make do and mend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our own swimming pool,<br \/>can you imagine?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Luxury\u2019s good for the soul.<br \/>We had the time of our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nothing later would match it:<br \/>the cricket team, the crest,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the Christmas fund,<br \/>the lingerie canteen!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was too good to last.<br \/>The first we heard was in the papers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By the Monday the receivers were in,<br \/>the whole shebang auctioned off,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the machinery, the knitters,<br \/>the Harrods order cancelled,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Madame Hel\u00e8ne upped sticks<br \/>and away back to England,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">most of us in there from a girl,<br \/>as good as.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All those discontinued lines,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the amethyst, the topaz, the pearl.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">The real reason Sean Nethercott<br \/>didn\u2019t sleep the whole time<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">he was on the Argenta<br \/>wasn\u2019t the squalls on Belfast Lough<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">or the younger lads trying out their Irish.<br \/>No, nothing so virtuous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He missed, he told us,<br \/>couldn\u2019t get over without<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the drone of the motor<br \/>coming from Whaley\u2019s Bakery,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">two doors up from his mother\u2019s,<br \/>the nightlong company of loaves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">rising, at first light<br \/>the long vans leaving The Square,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">up the street the first shops lit.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Overcrowding&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Overcrowding&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Overcrowding&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;OVERCROWDING&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">What I wouldn\u2019t give<br \/>to have been there,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">had a ringside seat,<br \/>the night the Regal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">was reprimanded<br \/>for overcrowding<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">at <i>The Quiet Man<\/i>,<br \/>the fight sequence<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">spilling over onto<br \/>Townhall Street,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tylers\u2019 doorway,<br \/>the pretend punches &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">hold me back,<br \/>up with the jooks &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">more real by the minute,<br \/>a score of Sean Thorntons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in their sideways on caps<br \/>it took the RM half a morning<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">to separate from innocent passers by,<br \/>Friday night strollers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">looking in windows,<br \/>after a bargain,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">sensible shoes,<br \/>a good summer coat.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Two duck eggs<br \/>on a rimless edge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">pale as delft;<br \/>a repetition of plates<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">breasting wire;<br \/>some lace;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">commemorative mugs<br \/>from a decade<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">when your dead were young.<br \/>Most times it feels<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">as though I\u2019ve lost it all.<br \/>and then, some evening,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a flame, rallying,<br \/>frames angled forms,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">among them yours, mother,<br \/>breasting a chair,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">your back to the dresser wall.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Arney-Bridge&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Arney-Bridge&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">How you can tell<br \/>a brick\u2019s from here\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the impress it bears<br \/>of the grass where it\u2019s lain,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a night and a day,<br \/>hardening in the brickfields<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">by the Arney river<br \/>before being ferried,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">low in the boat,<br \/>upstream to the town where,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a lifetime later,<br \/>after a shower,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in the right light,<br \/>if you know where to look,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the plainest of gables<br \/>will dry to a summer meadow,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">half<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Henry Street<br \/>sway unmown,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a russet prairie,<br \/>well into the evening,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">setting a light to<br \/>that whole end of the town.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">The things that linger.<br \/>Mickey Brewster,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the town\u2019s prize athlete,<br \/>mid-fielder,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">who taught us maths,<br \/>long Autumn evenings,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">before a big game,<br \/>the county or Ulster,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the Gaels\u2019 Field to himself<br \/>practising frees,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">sweet kick after kick<br \/>sailing high between<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">tapering, freshly limed posts.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #East-Bridge&#8221; module_id=&#8221;East-Bridge&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;East-Bridge&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;EAST BRIDGE&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The river snagged<br \/>on the new East Bridge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">confused amongst pillars.<br \/>Unravelling it threw up<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">reedballs, saplings,<br \/>the pale debris of islands<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">whose slow dispersal<br \/>left it free to saunter,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in Tuscan calm,<br \/>by the leeks and onions<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of the nuns\u2019 garden,<br \/>skirt town backs,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Impartial,<\/em><br \/><em>The Imperial,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">flow unremarked<br \/>past Dickie\u2019s,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">all rakes and hoes,<br \/>Jim Brady\u2019s bookies,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the back streets<br \/>and, once past the point<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of the Barracks,<br \/>take in its widening embrace<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the whole rest of the town.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">My mother\u2019s handwriting<br \/>grew loose-limbed with age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Its shoulders sloped,<br \/>it wandered, free as filigree<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">lace, discursive,<br \/>all over the place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A postcard from Bundoran<br \/>scarcely has room for your name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What with the walks, the waves,<br \/>the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Oh, the rain it really lashed.<br \/>Cheerio.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>See you Friday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Love Mam.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Clerk&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Clerk&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Clerk&#8221; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">Quarter to nine and<br \/>they\u2019re down on their knees<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in the Menswear Department,<br \/>not meaning to rise till they\u2019ve<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">seen the back of the last <i>Glory Be<br \/><\/i>and Paddy Sheils has gathered his beads,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">leaving only the litany,<br \/>the <i>Hail, Holy Queen,<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the rest of the trimmings.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Comfort&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Comfort&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Comfort&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; 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