After fifteen months, we are back in Dublin for a month on holidays around Ireland. Welcome back to the land of 'would ye not be holidaying somewhere warm', 'no bother', 'grand', 'no problem', 'sure, what could go wrong' and ' you have more chance of dying between buying your lotto ticket and lasting four hours until the draw'. (last one is a true, undeniable, fact, supposedly!) The weather before we arrived was atrocious. We were lucky to get in at EIDW airport...

Gus (Austin) said that he never met any of his Grandparents siblings; i understand that none of them made it into their teens. His father Pat was a gardener at the precurser to the Falls Hotel (McNamara House, of Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnamara fame) where he met Josephine Ferris who was a domestic consumption manager (or similar fancy term for a maid)?. They married in Dublin where their first was born Michael Joseph was born (@1911). The text from the loca...

Christy mentioned that his ancestors came from Ballycotteen (nearly 6km south of Doolin Co Clare) and before them they had come from Co Kerry and were definitely of French hereditary. He referred the them as the Liscannor Guerins (between Lehinch and Doolin).