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The Ballad of Lord Rupert Hack
By Bridget Brennan
He was tall, he was aloof, he was English by descent and
he had no time for tenents who could not pay their rent.
It was 1845, the potato crop had failed and the tenents
of Lord Rupert Hack knew, he would have their coffins nailed.
For they had no livestock left to sell and their food was
now diseased and Lord Rupert Hack would surely turn his back on their sad and pitiful pleas.
Then one night in desperation a man called Joe McGinn commited
what the church would call a dreadful mortal sin.
Joe thought about his family the loved ones he had lost.
His wife and seven children had paid a fatal cost.
Lord Ruperts rents were too high and Joe just could not
pay. His Lordship had evicted them and they died of cold and hunger on her Majesty's highway.
Now as Joe thought about them the anger in him grew and
it was there and then this man decided what he must do.
He knew Lord Rupert Hack would often chance to roam, down
by a small secluded wood quite near his stately home.
As Lord Rupert took his nightly stroll Joe was lying there
in wait and as Lord Rupert came close by Joe leapt across a gate.
From under his old ragged coat he took a long sharp knife
and he used that awful implement to end Lord Rupert's life.
Joe soon was aprehended and the hangman he was fetched.
The noose was strong and tight and Joes neck it was well stretched.
But before he met his final fate Joe had something more
to say "Lord Rupert got what he deserved I made that scoundrel pay. I hope his useless soul will never find true rest and
until the Judgement day may it wander o'er the earth."
Many years have now gone by since that frightful deed went
down and the land that was Lord Rupert's is now a little town.
But the residents who live there will tell you most sincerely
that they often hear his footsteps and they hear them very clearly.
As the midnight hour approaches, to their doors he comes
a knocking and those who open up to him are in for something shocking.
For there he stands all dressed in grey on his face a hideous
grin. In his right hand he holds an eviction notice and in his left still hanging by it's noose is the corpse of... JOE McGINN!!!
THE END
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My one and only venture into community was immensly enjoyable.
The play was written and performed by the group both locally and at the Drogheda Arts Festival. Entitled "It's Only
Bricks and Mortar" it was a one act comedy about two feuding cousins one from Northern Ireland and the other from
the Republic fighting over each other's property.
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| The Cast of "It's Only Bricks and Mortar" |
My Favourite things
I am a big movie buff and enjoy going to the cinema. My favourite
films are usually comedies and supernatural thrillers but I enjoy other genres too provided the film has the important
ingredients of a good plot, well written script and skilled actors.
I have an enormous crush on Johnny Depp and couldn't resist including
a picture of him in his sexist role to date as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. Apart from the fact
that he is the most scrumptous piece of eye candy ever to grace the silver screen he is also a superb character actor.
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| Couldn't resist this picture of Johnny as Jack Sparrow |
I love going to the theatre when I can and especially enjoy musicals
The Phantom of the Opera being my all time favourite.
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| Christine and the Phantom |
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pop, folk, jazz, classical and even some country music! Among my many all time favourtie artistes/composers are
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Crowe, Luke Kelly, Mary Black, Sinead O'Connor I'm afraid the list is endless........... I love to listen
to it, I love to dance to it and I love to sing along with it. I just love music!
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