Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
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Published: The Racket, April 2012.Ghosts of my home town
Here’s a short story I wrote for The Racket. (Above, a photo I took of Urlaur Abbey last week. My great-grandparents’ grave is visible, in side profile, about half a centimetre to the left hand side of the tree.)
April 30th, 2012.
April 30th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
good to see a few posts up here!
May 1st, 2012 at 9:50 am
Jayz, it almost sounds like you hadn’t had much sleep, there, Eoin.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:08 am
No, just a crappy mp3 recorder. It’s actually the finished recording in which I hadn’t slept the night before!
(the real) Eoin
May 3rd, 2012 at 10:18 pm
My Dads family came to the USA in the 1700s , to Virginia and then to Benton County Tenn. and then to East Prairie MO on the Mississippi river. There they stayed. One of the last things he did before he himself died at 93 was to put a stone on the grave of his Grandfather and GD.mother, Isaac Newton Presson and his wife Caroline Hale Presson . They were all probably Dutch and Scot.. Glad to see you know where your kin are buried. A prayer for them. S.
May 30th, 2012 at 7:30 am
Hey Eoin, brilliant, I love your writing. Hey why don’t the Irish times use you for something more interesting than interviewing supermodels? I could read that stuff you write about your hometown all day. Best, Deirdre