A Piece Wot I Wrote ...

[Stillhomewardbound]

About my daddy, the actor. It appeared in the Irish Independent at the weekend:

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/tp-mckenna-my-daddy-the-actor-3023095.html

[Nick Armstrong]

Look forward to having a read later, shb!

[amateur51]

About my daddy, the actor. It appeared in the Irish Independent at the weekend:

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/...r-3023095.html

A lovely piece of writing, shb and some wonderful insights - bravo!

Great photos too - I realised that I have never seen your father's smile til then - his face is transformed

Thanks for sharing it

[Stillhomewardbound]

Please, what is the best way of putting a picture on here?

Wheneever I try the picture loader it never works.

[Nick Armstrong]

I use this really simple site: http://imgur.com/

Once you've created your free account, you upload the pic using the 'Computer' button (assuming you have the pic in question saved to your computer).

Then click on the thumbnail of the picture showing on your 'images' page on the imgur site, and of the options, copy the code showing in the "Linked BBCode (message boards)" box, and post it into your message.

That does the trick

PS: I omitted to mention: your piece about your dad is a real treasure!

[Pabmusic]

This is a really good piece of writing. Of course I knew your father in the way that almost everyone knew him, as an actor. But you have brought out the person we didn't know. Thank you.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Thank you, Caliban. Actually, I did know this, but needed a mental jog, and thanks for yours and all the other kind words

Now to that picture. I was in father's village at the weekend with his surviving relatives and I was delighted to get a copy of this family portrait taken in about 1951.

It may be worth pointing out that this is just of one family. Yes, my father was the eldest of ten - four boys and six girls - and Ireland didn't get a television service until 1960!

It was taken in the leading portrait studio of the day in Dublin on the occasion of my father's sister entering the order of the Daughters of Charity and it is one of those images simply of another time. I like it very much.