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The Valley of the squinting windows

  • 09-02-2008 01:43AM
    #1
    Jabby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭


    Has anyone read the book 'The Valley of the Squinting Windows' and is there a village in Co Sligo that could be described as so?


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  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Are you scouting locations for a major cinema adaptation? :)


  • #3
    il gatto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Anywhere outside of Sligo town. Actually any village in Ireand.


  • #4
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    i remember hearing about that book, didnt some priest get his parishoners to burn it, i thought it was a rosscommon thing


  • #5
    Jabby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Jabby


    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    i remember hearing about that book, didnt some priest get his parishoners to burn it, i thought it was a rosscommon thing

    The village was Delvin (near Mullingar) It was mostly about narrow-minded interfering busy bodies who tormented a particular family just because one of them dared to write about what they believed was his and their locality in an unfavorable light.(Great book by the way.) There's a 'Delvin' in every county in Ireland don't you think .
    My question is. What is Co Sligo's 'Delvin' and without mentioning any names... why?


  • #6
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    hmmm, everyone must think that their home area is like that. it's not such a specific thing that it can happen in grange but not easkey, etc


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  • #7
    Essexboy
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    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    hmmm, everyone must think that their home area is like that. it's not such a specific thing that it can happen in grange but not easkey, etc

    How about Beltra? or Cloonacool?


  • #8
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    Essexboy wrote: »
    How about Beltra?

    especially beltra.....

    what with everyone out that direction being a clark


  • #9
    tuppence
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭tuppence


    I always expect ballymote to be abit like that. But perhaps its really templeboy thats the one....
    Think I went to school with a few Clarks from Beltra or did everyone!


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