Hello,
I’m searching for traces, anecdotes, photos, press articles etc about Barney, born in Belfast, but lived most of his life around Dublin.
He never married; sometimes worked as a teacher, and initially lived in Dunlaoghaire (with his boxer dog, near to Cyril Cusack ). He also lived for a few years at Clane, County Kildare, and Great Denmark Street/Gardiner Street in Dublin. Emigrated to America around 1973 and died there in 1986.
Bernard loved to tell jokes, sing, and even take to the stage (with a nasal Northern accent). He was reputedly “The Life & Soul of the Party” wherever he went, and is said to have run “bingo sessions” and other activities to raise cash to support those impacted by the long strike in 1970.
Something of a “local character”. Does anyone remember him?
