The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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We went to Glasnevin, saw Daniel O’Connel’s tomb, the beautiful Phoenix Park, with its fine trees, beautiful walks etc. saw the Dublin Exhibition many beautiful objects. The wife wandered away, as usual, taking her own way, lost me, and it was some time before we met, at which said incident, the male person was unduly ill tempered; at this distant day, will not say how it affected the said sensitive wife. It is often brighter after a storm, we enjoyed the ride by rail from Dublin to Cork. The number of old castles, the sad evidence of the effects of the famine visible throughout our journey were very distressing. We found Cork a busy place, rose early, had a capital breakfast and went off early to Blarney Castle, walked amidst its ruins, mounted the Tower, where the blarney stone was pointed out to us, whereof if we kissed it we should be

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