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		<title>The Clothes Line (revisions)</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-clothes-line-revisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I found on another site some revisions to an earlier piece I wrote some time ago (following the death of my mother) &#8230; not sure if I ever put them up here &#8230; at the risk of losing them to the digital neverland of the internet, I put them here purely for safe keeping &#8230; This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=654&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only Yesterdays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh the times we could have had I’ve lived them all Mostly by myself. Sometimes a little too often Or so I’ve been told. Yet, they give me comfort. Simply moving on is never an option At least for a mother And more so in times a father too. . Most times In my imaginings  You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=636&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas with Gene Autry and years gone by</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/christmas-with-gene-autry-and-years-gone-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is my favorite time of year &#8230; always has been.  When I was a kid, putting up the decorations in our home was my favorite time of year; and every year Gene Autry was on the record player &#8230; morning, noon, and night.  There came a time when I moved on from all those things, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=632&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitewash</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember growing up with many things, Most of which, Like any other kid, Lost in the selfishness of youth, Assumed would remain, Constant. I was wrong. But &#8230; I was but &#8230; A child. . I remember having idols, And doing the things that idols expect, And not doing what I would now. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=602&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One More Step</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/one-more-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The girls are back to school today &#8230; Time keeps ticking &#8230; I remember driving in cold Irish mornings, and you strapped beside me in your seat, with only few words yet spoken.  I remember dropping you off to smiles and hugs, to people who&#8217;ve long since forgotten your name &#8230; as have we they.  I remember [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=584&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Clock</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/the-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote these couple of lines this morning.  They came to me from a post my brother in law (Martin) put on his facebook &#8230; (below) &#8230; They are expecting their first child to arrive in the next week or so &#8230; Good luck Martin:  &#8220;Thanks guys. The holiday was perfectly timed. A week before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=579&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hindsights and Perceptions</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/working-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rain. Days and days of rain. Was it ever any other way? All of those days, Perpetual darkness and gloom. Did the sun not ever shine? It must have. It must have. Didn’t it? I just don’t remember. I just don’t. Why is that I wonder? All those years. Even when I look back now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=556&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Wife&#8217;s Family</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/my-wifes-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece I wrote a year or so ago and was reminded of over the Christmas break, after a get together with my wife&#8217;s in-laws &#8230; it really should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt &#8230; for the most part they&#8217;re a good bunch of people and a lot of fun to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=550&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every Now And Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again I look at you, Captured there in a moment, Smiling, Mid sentence, Mine, The way I remember you. And I think of those days Those days Those days when we were young, Those days when all we needed, And all we had, Was each other and a dream Every now and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=518&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graveyards</title>
		<link>http://irishocity.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/graveyards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim prendeville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one runs in a graveyard. No one shouts. It is peaceful, Calming, Walking amongst those who came before. Tip toe and listen to the silence, Whisper the names of those you meet. For most of those you chance upon, You are their only visitor, Save the daily procession of  new arrivals. Who were all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishocity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2075578&amp;post=504&amp;subd=irishocity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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