by Paul Gorry | Mar 11, 2022 | Baltinglass, Baltinglass Chronicles 1851-2001, Claude Chavasse, Halloween, Juggies, The Story of Baltinglass |
Today (11 March 2022) my friend Cora Crampton showed me a photograph of a sheet of paper – the one in the image here. It was in the back of a copy of Claude Chavasse’s The Story of Baltinglass (1970) which I gave her (or so she says) several years ago. She...
by Paul Gorry | Oct 20, 2017 | Baltinglass, Halloween, Juggies, Traditions |
Time for my annual appeal for Baltinglass to embrace its heritage and bring back the juggies to the streets at Halloween. Banish the dreadful “trick-or-treat” expression and tell Baltinglass children to do what Baltinglass children did from at least the early...
