Local interest

24th February 2010

Local function during the 60's.....

Hills Mill workers

Ronan Sharkey skis to success

Weirview friends

Snow scenes in Lucan 2010

Canadian visit

The project to date

Some local talent

The height of fashion

Aaron Dunne documents the rise of Ireland's national games, throughout the Gulf, Australasia, Asia, and America.

The Grimes Twins

Dublin: World Malayalee Council Ireland Province

Climbers make it to the top

Farewell

Present Political Situation

An update

Good news just in, two weeks ago Nagarhope Nepal became an officially registered Nepali NGO (non-governmental organisation)

Our main focus is still on the provision of clean drinking water and to this end we are making pumps in our temporary factory since October at a rate of about 10 per week.

I would like to proudly pronounce that Nagarhope has a new name, a new guise, a new personality.

Sunrise school has recessed, albeit briefly, in preparation for the coming Nepali year of 2066. Exams are being corrected, and scrutinised, and compiled, whilst 150 students wait for their results in about a week’s time.

We received a rather nice letter recently from Ed and Marlene Toner of New Jersey. In it they complimented us on Treasures of Lucan – they had just recently received a copy. They also sent us an article from The Irish Echo about how they met – read on:

Feb 17th 2009. I returned to Nepal about a week ago now, back up the Himalayas to Nagarkot, back to my Home away from home, back to work, routine, back to being surrounded by children..

Just before our summer break, we carried a photo of ‘The Croppies’ – a local ballad group who were a big hit in the 1960s. In response to several queries about the group, Paul Howlett sent us the following:

Happy New Year one and all!

Nano Nagle is the greatest Irish woman of all time. She was born in Ballygriffin, near Mallow, Co. Cork, in 1718.

Very often, we read of extraordinary people; very often it is after they have passed through this life. Not so with Lucan’s Doc (Fachtna Clandillon), who as we go to press is making his way back to Nagarkot in Nepal.

Lucan Newsletter celebrates it’s 40th Birthday on Feb 26th 2007. Below are a few historical notes on the history of the Newsletter ...

Greetings sapai jana (Greetings all); K chha (How are you)

Fifty years ago (1958), Kenneth and Cicely Hall along with their son Robin, left Raheny and came to Lucan, taking up residence in Primrose Hill House. The old house was in bad repair, and much work needed to be done over the years.

I have been up to my forehead in work, both physical and mental. The new school year is a week old now which means there are over 50 new faces to look after and teach.

Before the roof went on, we bought it! Six months later, on the 6th April 1968 we moved into our brand new home, in a new development, in the town land of Pettycannon….they called it “Esker Lawns”.

Along the banks of the black slimy Bagmati river live hundreds of immigrant & migrant landless squatters, there are thousands of such folk around the Kathmandu valley living in shacks, homes to them.

I am writing from the office of Umbrella, the organisation I have been volunteering at for the last four weeks. It is my last full day of work today and I am sorry to be leaving.