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MARY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!
As this will be our last post before Christmas Day we Three Marys would like to wish our friends and all who visit this page a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all your wonderful contributions over the past twelve months, thank you for your (virtual) company and thank you for being such wonderful friends.

Far be it from me to stick up for those Krazy Kataloguers, but might it have been a stall to raise money to buy toys to send out to the "Missions"?

Carol Maddock No! Everybody knows that the Kataloguers are Krazy!

Some intriguing snippets of text on the tattered posters
‘absence of twenty years’
‘Circus’ and ‘aero’, might advertise an aerial circus which were popular during the 20s & 30s

Suck Diesel When was White's Wafer Oatmeal on the go?

Read All About It, via 'The Irish Sod' - theirishsod.blogspot.com/2012/12/irelands-bethlehem.html

Google Satellite - maps.app.goo.gl/a84JpjT8F4ysgCGz9
53.540924, -7.871162

There is a record at the NIAH which agrees with the beachcombers source: occupied for just 10 years until burnt in 1642, after which the nuns moved to Athlone.

A Madonna statue of bog oak from the convent survives in Galway: poorclares.ie/our-lady-of-bethlehem-athlone-madonna

The building was featured in a full-page article in the Evening Herald (Dublin) Thursday 24 December 1992.

Last year. Poor Clare nuns from around the world visited the ivy -clad ruins in Co Westmeath when the order celebrated the 350th anniversary of the flight of the nuns who escaped to Galway by taking to boats on Lough Ree.

It also mentions the Streven family, on whose farm it stands, who had cleared the ivy and received many letters from nuns who had visited.

In colour - via - artvee.com/dl/john-hughes-1865-1941-sculptor-against-his-...

beachcomber australia Beautiful subtle colour.

I think the painting says "May 1903" bottom left, so presumably the photo has to be then or after.

Here is John Hughes' sculpture 'Orpheus and Euridice' - via the Hugh Lane Gallery - onlinecollection.hughlane.ie/objects/832/orpheus-and-eury...

Ed. - Greek mythology - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_and_Eurydice

The Dublin Leader of Saturday 19 December 1903 had an article by Robert Elliott about an exhibition of Walter Osborne's works at the Academy rooms in Abbey Street

In Room III. there are several pencil studies, water colours, and a few oil studies by Walter Osborne, which latter have formed the basis of some of his larger paintings. Among the water colours is an unfinished one of Mr. John Hughes in his studio, which I had the pleasure of seeing Osborne working on at the time, shortly before his lamented death,

Walter Osborne died on 24th April 1903.