I’m delighted to announce the publication of the second edition of The Deise Dictionary of Waterford Slang, brought to you by Wellboy and the team at www.UpTheDeise.com. This is truly a modern classic, filled with useful (and not-so-useful) phrases for all walks of life in Waterford, Ireland.
Priced at a mere €10.00, it would make an ideal stocking filler this Christmas. It’s available from The Book Centre in Waterford or online at www.UpTheDeise.com.
Best of luck Wellboy, boy!
I had reason to drive to Cork city recently to a premises on North Main Street. Not knowing Cork that well, I sought the assistance of a map on the internet and started to look for North Main St. However, I just couldn’t find it and all the references in site search results were useless.
My 70 year old father happened to be in the room at the time and since he grew up in West County Waterford (not a million miles away from Cork), I decided to ask him if, by any chance, he happened to know where North Main Street in Cork was. Here is his reply…
….pause….stare at wall…pause…. “Er, um, No … but I know where North Main Street in Youghal is…”
Priceless (and useless) !!!
We had a new delivery in the Atrium of the TSSG building in Carriganore this week in the form of a very curious looking, but very interesting tree.
Over the course of the entire day (Friday), we looked on with interest as the sculptor carved, chiseled, sanded, rubbed and carefully caressed the tree into place. It stands approximately 30ft tall and is mostly black in colour.
I spoke briefly with the gentleman in question on my way home and he told me a little more about it. The sculpture is made from Bog Oak that was salvaged from a local bog some years ago. It has been Carbon Dated by the National Museum of Ireland and officially recognised to be over 7500 years old.
He has also moulded some other (even older) timbers and animal bones (yes, animal bones) into sections of the tree. Along with the scratch marks of deer antlers (painted in gold), it is utterly beautiful and truly something to behold.
The sculptor was a local man called Seamus Kelly and we are very grateful for his talents as we now have something very interesting to inspire us on those days we all have from time to time.
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