http://www.ashsmyth.com/festooned-with-saxons-or-how-great-grandfather-won-the-triple-crown/ Will write for money Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 http://www.ashsmyth.com/festooned-with-saxons-or-how-great-grandfather-won-the-triple-crown/comment-page-1/#comment-43594 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:06:24 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2381#comment-43594 Great to read this about my grandfather who I never met (but my mum (Ann Sealy) told me that after death the only consolation is that you get to drink tea with whoever….and I have always thought that he would be worth a cuppa or two).
I also have a flag – from 1928 Ireland vs Scotland – when the Da was a touch judge judge. I remember my mum also telling me both 1. this Cromwell quote verbatim. 2. that the Da said she was a very unreliable witness. Is your article evidence that she got it right?

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/festooned-with-saxons-or-how-great-grandfather-won-the-triple-crown/comment-page-1/#comment-43581 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:30:56 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2381#comment-43581 Wonderful article. I am proud to say I have another touch flag from the Ireland Wales game.

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/festooned-with-saxons-or-how-great-grandfather-won-the-triple-crown/comment-page-1/#comment-43578 Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:50:39 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2381#comment-43578 Thanks for the article and lots of unknown ‘info’. Can’t argue with rugby detail but two Comments
1. Dublin University? Trinity surely, or were there combined teams?
2.My understanding was that although agreeable to the marriage, the Da never ‘sent’ B to S.A. Quite the reverse, was extremely reluctant to see her go

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